In this episode of Make Business Personal, Kiley Peters, founder of RAYNE IX, talks about personal leadership and how to lead oneself and others to achieve goals. Kiley breaks down the discussion into three main categories: personal goals, financial goals, and professional goals, encouraging listeners to dream and think about what they want in various aspects of their lives!

• Introduction to Personal Leadership 0:57
• Setting Financial Goals 4:21
• Recommended Resources 10:43

Quotes

• "What do you want and how are you gonna lead yourself and others to help make it happen?" 0:27
• “I've worked with a lot of women and oftentimes many of them have a tough time saying what they want because they haven't thought about it or nobody's ever asked them or they have been in pursuit of helping everybody else get what they want. So if you haven't done this work for yourself yet, please take some time to do so. It's really hard to get things that you want if you haven't named them.” 1:59
• “Take some time and really think about how you want to be and how you want to show up on a daily basis in your life so it’s intentional. So you are doing the things and living the life that you want to, because that's the whole goal, right?” 10:08

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In this episode of Make Business Personal, Kiley Peters, founder of RAYNE IX, talks about the importance of optimizing time and energy as part of The D&A of Success framework. Kiley emphasizes the need to delegate tasks that drain energy and focus on activities that align with personal strengths and passions. She also provides a few exercises to help individuals assess their current situation and set goals for improvement.

• Optimizing Time and Energy: The D&A of Success 0:39
• Delegating Tasks to Increase Productivity 1:18
• Recommended Resources 8:41

Quotes

• "You're probably spending your time and energy doing those things right now when you could be doing things that bring in revenue or bring you greater joy and calmness." 8:00
• "Optimizing your time and energy is the greatest gift you could give to your family, team, and community." 9:22
• “Ask yourself how many things you can then delegate. What can you afford to delegate? What’s the low-hanging fruit? What are the things that are gonna make the greatest impact? You don't have to figure out exactly who it is right now, but identify what needs to be delegated.” 8:26

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In this episode of Make Business Personal, Kiley Peters, founder of RAYNE IX, talks about the first step in defining success for ourselves: discovering our significance. She explores the big questions of why we exist and who we are meant to serve. Kiley emphasizes the importance of aligning our work with our personal significance and shares her own journey of discovering her purpose.

• Discovering Your Significance 1:11
• Aligning Work with Personal Significance 6:06
• Recommended Resources 12:52

Quotes

• “The big questions we wanna talk about when we're talking about discovering your significance are, why do you exist? Why are you here? Who are you meant to serve? Some people might talk about this as a personal purpose. So what's your personal purpose? And really that's the same thing. That's what we're talking about in terms of what makes you significant.” 1:14
• “I worked with a coach for years to try to really dig into the depths of who I am as a human being to get to this point. My personal significance, like what makes me significant, my personal purpose, is that I am here to create opportunities for and elevate women, period. That's it. Like everything I do is in service of that.” 6:15
• “Am I actually living in alignment with my personal significance or my personal purpose? And if the answer is no, then you have very tangible ways that you can change your behaviors and change what you're saying so that it feels more whole for you.” 3:11

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In this episode of Make Business Personal, Kiley Peters, founder of RAYNE IX, talks about the D&A framework for building the life you want. Each step has core questions that need to be answered to gain insights and move forward. This episode sets the stage for future episodes that will dive deeper into each step of the D&A framework!

• Overview of the D&A Framework 1:40
• Significance 2:46
• Energy 4:03
• Leadership: 5:17
• Facts 6:55

Quotes

• "Define success for yourself first as an individual and align the work you do to that personal definition of success in order to build the life you want." 0:31
• "What is your personal definition of success?" 8:20
• “Defining success for yourself is one way, and arguably the greatest way, that we can make business personal.” 9:01

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In this episode of Make Business Personal, Nesha Pai, founder of Pai CPA, talks about the importance of accounting for small businesses. Nesha emphasizes the need to understand financial statements, use of accounting software, and having a well-organized chart of accounts. The conversation provides valuable insights for small business owners looking to improve their accounting practices.

• The range of knowing your financial statements content covered in The Accelerator program 1:08
• The top three things entrepreneurs need to know about financial statements when running their business 3:05
• One action you want all listeners to take right now in their entrepreneurial journey 8:25
• One bonus business tip about succeeding in entrepreneurship. 11:21

Quotes

• "Get QuickBooks, get a bookkeeper, or at least learn how to do it right." 8:39
• "The number one reason businesses fail is because they don't have a handle on their numbers." 5:08
• “The bookkeeper has to have theoretical accounting knowledge. That doesn’t mean they have to be a CPA. They don’t have to be, they may not even have gone to school for accounting but they have had accounting practice. They’ve learned on the job. They understand the theory behind it.” 6:13

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In this episode of Make Business Personal, Tiffany Johnson, co-owner of Piece of Wealth Planning discusses personal financial planning, financial independence, budgeting, retirement plans, insurance protections, and investing in estate planning. She emphasizes the importance of keeping personal and business expenses separate, efficient bookkeeping, understanding cash flow, and more.

• The range of personal financial planning content covered in The Accelerator program 1:00
• The top three things entrepreneurs need to know about financial planning when running their business 2:50
• One action you want all listeners to take right now in their entrepreneurial journey 5:48
• One bonus business tip about succeeding in entrepreneurship. 11:24

Quotes

• "Make sure you keep personal expenses completely separate from business expenses." 3:30
• “Bookkeeping and tax planning are the things you need to make sure that you're doing to run your business efficiently to then be able to take income from your business.” 3:17
• “Make sure you're working with a certified public accountant so you want to make sure that they're a CPA. If you're looking for a financial planner, make sure you're looking for a certified financial planner… and understand how these people paid.” 8:24
• “The biggest thing I would tell any business owner is hire out sooner than you think you need to for those types of things because at the end of the day, if you're constantly working in your business and not working on your business, you will never be able to grow and scale the way you really want to. So the earlier you can hire somebody, the better it would be to allow them to come in.” 12:30

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In this episode of Make Business Personal, Jenna Piche, founder of First Light Coaching shares valuable insights on how to effectively manage time as a female business owner. The conversation covers various topics, including mindset and expectations, leveraging time periods, calendar control, habits and systems, mastering focus, and more.

• The range of time management content you covered in The Accelerator program 0:47
• The top three things entrepreneurs need to know about time management when running a business 3:39
• One action you want all listeners to take right now in their entrepreneurial journey 12:17
• One bonus business tip about succeeding in entrepreneurship. 13:35

Quotes

• “We move mountains by the little consistent actions we take every day.” 2:11
• “I recommend a list of three things. If you only get three things done today, what are those three things? And they should be put through the filter of what's important and timely.” 5:28
• “It's important to think about what are the kinds of things that that person does every day and then how can we act as if we're already that person.” 7:23

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In this episode of Make Business Personal, Leah Roe, founder of The Perk, a premier leadership and team coaching, training, and development studio discusses the key aspects of effective leadership and provides insights for entrepreneurs on leading their businesses. The conversation covers topics such as the importance of vision and culture in leadership and building trust within teams and organizations.

• Leadership content covered in The Accelerator program 1:27
• The top three things entrepreneurs need to know about properly leading a team 4:37
• One action you want all listeners to take right now in their entrepreneurial journey 8:29
• One bonus business tip about succeeding in entrepreneurship 11:50

Quotes

• “We need to simplify leadership in order to amplify it.” 1:52
• “The number one thing to remember is that your job as a leader is vision and culture. And that, even if you are a solopreneur working with a client, you are still a leader with that client.” 4:46
• “Make sure people feel seen, heard, and valued. You need to eliminate distractions. You need to put your phone down. You need to turn off your notifications when you're meeting with somebody, whether an employee or a client. If you can give them your full attention, if you can be present with them, then you actually can listen to them.” 6:59

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