The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Entrepreneur”

Episode 149: Sage Polaris - When Less is More: How I Take 4 Months Off Per Year & Why You Can Too!

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Making and taking space in my business has been the greatest gift that I have given myself and my creative projects, including my podcast!

This past summer I took four months off and went to long dreamed of places like Peru, and Scotland and also got to take time to really relax, plan, create and take extended time with family and friends.
Sage Polaris has been my inspiration for developing this more spacious way of being and living and I’m experiencing it as a more "feminine way" of leading and balancing my life and business, so I invite you to join me as I explore this concept through several episodes this season.

I’ve come to see how depleted I always was and how I had become my own worst boss when it came to my business. I was overwhelmed, uninspired and exhausted all the time, and never felt like I could take time away - which is exactly what we are conditioned to do as business owners and "industrial workers”- especially if you happen to be a generator type in human design.

Experts like Sage helped me understand how to automate and streamline my business and help me identify areas where I could use some additional support.
Once I began to taste what it felt like to automate certain things, I began to have more space for rest, fun, creativity, and so much more.

The big shift for many entrepreneurs is setting the foundation from which they can scale their business. Sage Polaris is one of those professionals who is all about supporting other female entrepreneurs to create thriving a business that takes care of us and provides endless opportunity for rest and regeneration. I’m so excited for you to experience her magic! Listen in to this episode for the secret code to take advantage of a very special offer.

How Sage became an entrepreneur
How she got fired up to help women achieve their entrepreneurial goals based on what some guy said.
The Book that changed everything and began to give her more confidence to set out on her own.
How Sage realized she did not create her business to be her own worst boss.
She began instituting "Fun Fridays" and started taking 4 months off.
Lifecation is the word Sage uses to express the time she enjoys taking adventures and getting her head into the creative clouds
How Sage partnered with her husband to redefine their roles in their parenting relationship in order to bring incremental change to her work/life balance.
Why taking time and creating space allows you to make more of an impact and even earn more.
How can we create a business that takes care of us?
Why Sage wants the women in her life to out-earn the men in their lives because that money goes back to the community because women tend to do more generous things for others with the money they earn.
Why templates are such an incredible way to assist us in making space for our businesses
Why every entrepreneur needs to invest in "copy” and why templates are such a wonderful way to go.
The Color Coded Copy System can help us identify the 4 types of buyers and how they think and how they purchase.
Why Sage loves coaching entrepreneurs on how to bring a human touch to their business practices and get related to your clients and customers.
How to grow your side hustle into your business.
Learn about the Color Coded Copy System and how this particular episode invites women to close the gap with a special offer from Sage.

Episode 75: Gayle Nowak - The Heart Knows The Way

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 19 May 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Have you ever noticed that ever since your business showed up in your life, so have your deepest fears and false beliefs stories and wounds buried deep in your subconscious as well? There's a reason for that. Our guest today, Gayle Nowak says that when you dare to listen to your wounded heart, you begin to heal and free yourself from the pain, fear and false belief that are keeping you stuck in your business.

Gayle is a transformational retreat leader and founder of the story stylist and award winning expert positioning consultancy for speakers, authors and mission led entrepreneurs. She's passionate about creating experiences for messengers, healers, and entrepreneurial lightworkers that help them get real about how they truly feel so that they can find the message and story that best positions their magic.

As a result, her clients clear their visibility blocks and show up powerfully. To speak and lead from a happy, loving heart

Listen in and learn why our biggest mess is also our most powerful message and how Gayle discovered vulnerability as the source of strength for her clients.
Our business’s success is often directly proportional to our willingness to do our healing work.
Our wounded hearts hold a resonance for truth telling and that by revealing our true story, we directly attract the clients who are meant for us.
Learn why getting out of your head and into your heart is the quickest path to showing up powerfully.

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Episode 70: Kelsey Abbott - Sparkly AF

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0400

I laughed through this whole episode. Kelsey Abbott is one of the most delightful and playful people I have met in a long time. In addition to being incredibly intelligent, Kelsey is so talented at communicating the impact of human design and how it can help us recalibrate our lives. I’m so excited to introduce you and know you’ll love her as much as I do.

Kelsey Abbott is an intuitive Human Design Reader, a Certified Professional Coach, Instigator of Joy, and the Find Your Awesome podcast host. She helps spiritual adventurers remember who they are and why they're here so they can experience more ease, joy, flow, magic, and miracles. Kelsey believes that the universe wants us to be sparkly AF and that joy is our natural state. When Kelsey isn't playing in her business, she's bringing curiosity, play, and joy to triathlon, a sport she races as an elite amateur.

Kelsey became a certified coach in 2014 and started the “Find your Awesome podcast” in 2017. She was initially very skeptical about Human Design until she began to look into it. How it described her own profile resonated deeply with her soul, so she kept going down the rabbit hole until getting certified.
Kelsey is a 4/6 Manifesting Generator. Right Angle Cross: Penetration. She graduated college with a psychology degree, went on to get a graduate degree in marine mammal science, and studied marine mammals and conservation. She then moved from that career to be a science writer, taking scientific papers and making them accessible, fun, and funny for regular people. On the side, she was coaching, swimming, coaching triathletes, personal training, and then morphed all of this into professional coaching and Human Design.
Human Design is like your blueprint for Earth School, and there are 5 types: Manifestor, Manifesting Generator, Generator, Projector, Reflector.
Kelsey refers to "Reflector" types as "Disco Balls of Awesomeness." Reflectors, who are only 1% of the population, reflect and amplify the energy of others.
If you have an open center, you will feel and amplify the energy of others in that center. If you have a defined center, you have your own energy in that center.
Alexander the Great was a Manifestor. Manifestors are here to make things happen. Manifestors are super, super powerful. They have the biggest aura, the biggest energy of any energy type, which means that a Manifestor cannot sneak into a room. You feel it when a Manifestor comes into the room.
Generator types are the only ones that have an endless reservoir of energy coming from the sacral center.
We silly humans often think that we're on a planet covered with almost 8 billion different people, but really we are on a planet with one human shattered into 8 billion separate pieces, and those different pieces need to own and share their gifts, our gifts. When when we do, we all fit together like puzzle pieces, and then we rise. We are meant to rise together. And we need each other to rise.

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Episode 52: Sage Polaris - Work, Life, Love

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Patriarchy stress disorder, pandemic parenting, and creating a wildly successful and profitable business from a place of pleasure and desire - these topics are just the tip of the iceberg in this incredible episode with my esteemed guest, Sage Polaris.

Many of you may already know that I am a lover of language, words, naming “it," synchronicity, and mysticism. I knew that the name “Sage” already intrigued me, and so of course I had to go digging below the surface, feeling into the deeper essence of what it means:

Sage.
noun

a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
someone venerated for the possession of wisdom, judgment, and experience.

adjective, sag·er, sag·est.

wise, judicious, or prudent:
sage advice.

It did not take me long to recognize that Sage is aptly named, but then the name “Polaris” also had me Googling!

Polaris: Also known as the North Star. Polaris lies nearly in a direct line with the Earth's rotational axis "above" the North Pole—the north celestial pole—Polaris stands almost motionless in the sky, and all the stars of the northern sky appear to rotate around it.

I mean, can you stand it?
Sage Polaris.

Her name got me thinking about what it takes to be "sage." What I know about wisdom is that it's often gained by having faced tremendous trials, difficulty, and extreme challenges.

There is a reason for instance, that Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, has the companion totem animal of the owl. An owl is a symbol of wisdom and is known to “cleave” through the darkness, able to view things from a higher perspective.

I am loving the wisdom, perspective, and “Sage" offerings delivered in this episode. Listen in as we dive deeply into work, life, and love, and what Sage is doing to invite women to join her in seeking higher perspectives that bring more love and pleasure to our businesses and lives. I think you'll be amazed by what you hear.

Thank you for your time, Sage! You are a gem!

Sage Polaris has written high converting copy for more than 350 clients earning them millions of dollars. She helps personal brands and service providers sell more of their service or offer with the words on their website.

She has worked with Chrisette Michele, James Wedmore, Rick Mulready, and Amber McCue. Basically, she makes money for the “internet famous” people we all look up to.

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Sage has created her business by design, "If you share my values, I can work with you.”
Pandemic parenting + entrepreneurship has meant that Sage gets to show up authentically, sometimes with kids crawling all over her, while knowing that she's chosen to work with the clients who understand that this is part of where we all are in this moment.
Women are showing up for work differently, and not just during the pandemic. We have been evolving towards more work-life balance and honoring each other in this duality, of women who are out in the workforce and mothering at the same time and bringing that together in a way that feels supported.
Sage takes 4 months off each year, consistently doubles her revenues each year, and she does so unapologetically.
Sage writes “copy that converts” but really her job is to create “resonance” using language and words, and integrity to communicate the essence of her clients' offerings which she also calls "the sixth sense of copywriting."
Using this method, Sage has had upwards of 1.2, 5 million in revenues in a single launch for her clients.
All industries have a gritty and sleazy side, but if you are aware of your values aligning with your clients' values, it can be a magical marketing experience for both you and the customer.
Valerie Ryan is the author of the book, Patriarchy Stress Disorder and Sage has all of her students read it as a reminder that we are in a system that was built to oppress many people, particularly women, and that this is at the core of how we “work” and do life.
As women, we have to be aware of how we burn ourselves out because when we do that we can’t affect positive change in the world.
We have to pay attention to how we place conditions on ourselves as women, even withholding love from ourselves because we don’t realize that we’ve loved ourselves with conditions based on how we “perform” in our business.

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Episode 39: Jeannie Spiro - Business of Feminine Design

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 00:15:00 -0400

Jeannie Spiro is my business coach and an incredible resource and support for the many successful female entrepreneurs in my life. I invited her on the show to share more about her work in the world and how she views the role of Women in business - especially now as we are no longer doing “business as usual." Listen in as Jeannie offers a perspective for women who are running heart-centered businesses in these changing times, and what the world wants now.

Jeannie is a business strategist specializing in helping women, coaches, visionaries, and experts create a lifestyle business with more ease, income, and impact. Using her burnout to bliss method she helps them create a business model, revenue, streams, and sales funnels that allow them to achieve multiple six or seven-figure lifestyle businesses. After achieving multiple six-figure businesses, Jeannie hit extreme burnout. She repeated the same patterns again and again until she finally decided to break the cycle by redesigning her entire business. Within weeks of her redesign, Jeannie doubled her income by working half the time. As a result, she's taken her exact process and now helps other women design monetize, and grow a highly profitable business that complements their lives.

There's so much hustle and grind that goes into building a business, and there's a lot in achieving six figures, that by the time some people get the six figures they're sort of out of love with their business and they're overwhelmed and exhausted.
I'm seeing that this is a time for women to step in and really take ownership of the space, the entrepreneurial space, but doing it in a way that is coming from both the masculine and feminine side. There's a balance to it.
We are no longer doing business as usual, and there is a way to run a business that harnesses the masculine and feminine energy in a new way that serves.
Women are becoming more creative in the design of their business, so that can blend with the lifestyle that they want to have.
The pandemic forced us to shift into a whole new way of doing business.
Every year you want to try to work with your coach to help you develop a new area of your business.
Women need to look at what they are doing to refuel their energy because it’s in the receiving and the recharging that we are able to work more strategically and serve a broader audience.
When women have “full cup syndrome” nothing new can be born.
Covid has given many of us the opportunity to ask: what do I really want to be doing? And how do I want to be serving? * How do I want to be making money and how do I want to be living as a business owner?
Sometimes the secret to success and making a million dollars is learning to put your feet in the sand.

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Episode 22: Catherine Avery - Brain Fog and Breast Cancer

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 06 May 2020 03:00:00 -0400

Catherine Avery is the founder of Productivity By Design. Catherine empowers busy professionals who struggle with brain fog to conquer their daily tasks, paperwork, and productivity. A former queen of clutter, recovering Type-A Wall Streeter, and cancer survivor, she implements proven strategies that get you on a more productive and profitable track. Combining her design sense with streamlined systems and business acumen, she helps her clients master their time, space, and information.

Catherine didn’t expect the intense chemo brain after recovering from breast cancer and it led her to find her passion in developing a business dedicated to helping women organize their lives.

Catherine shares about 2 bouts of depression 10 years apart from each other and how different they both were.

People have different brains, and different ways of learning.
ADD and ADHD carry a lot of shame.
What is depression and how does it show up?
Belongings are often attached to emotion and memories.
How many of us have a childhood box that we keep for reasons we don’t understand?
When it comes to clearing the clutter - If you are in doubt, don’t throw it out. When we are ready to let go, don’t throw it all away.
Family stories and archives do matter, and yet, it’s good to curate certain pieces vs. keep it all.
Many entrepreneurs work from home and don’t fit into the rhythm of daily corporate life.
Sometimes if you don’t feel like doing the thing, you should listen to that as your body saying “I need to rest”.
She realized that she couldn’t do everything the same way she had and that if wanted to do cancer well, even evrything else had to go.
The hardest part of having cancer was learning how to receive.
While most women are great at giving a lot of us don’t know how to receive - compliments, help, attention, love.

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