Replication, Rebellion & Revenue Leaks with Clair Kim

Replication, Rebellion & Revenue Leaks with Clair Kim

by | Apr 28, 2020 | Business, Finances

Replication, Rebellion & Revenue Leaks with Clair Kim

Clair Kim is a business architect, millennial expert, and social media influencer. She has consulted with over 250+ companies of all stages (from ideation to exit, from no revenue to 10 figures) internationally.In today’s episode, Clair and Monique are talking about her personal brand as a musician ranked amongst the top 5% of online influencers via Klout in 2015. As well, her frameworks helped companies to increase their revenue by up to 1000% while decreasing their workload by 60%. And in the process, she’s been featured on The Today Show, Forbes, Huffington Post, Huffington Post, Addicted2Success, and more. When Clair is not geeking out on business-related things, you can find her living her stage life as a musician, or surfing through YouTube for puppy videos - and that's exactly what Monique and Clair will do in today's episode

HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[01:41] – Monique introduces her guest, Clair Kim.

 

[03:08] – Tell everyone what you’re doing who you are, where you from.

  • I am based in Canada.
  • I’m a principal consultant at Clairly Designed and what we do at Clairly Designed is conscious companies come to us when they’re ready to maximize their growth potential. 

 

[04:15] – Clair explains what talent and revenue leaks are all about.

 

[24:42] – How did you find your first clients and how did you make things work?

  • Just go online.
  • Pretty much all those places online where I knew people will be hiring for these part-time or freelancers. 

 

[33:50] – You mentioned you have Asian parents. Tell me a little bit about where they’re from originally.

  • They are South Koreans.

 

[34:42] – Clair talks about her family and their business.

 

[38:29] – Tell me a little bit about your music career.

  • When it comes to establishing a musician, brand per se, It didn’t really happen until I was about 20 years old.

 

[43:43] – So what would you say is your music genre, more pop, or anything specific?

  • It’s going to be pop acoustic sort of a thing.

 

[45:39] – How are you managing your business, consulting, music, puppies, and unicorns as well as food all at once?

  • Food is non-negotiable. 
  • My golden rule, I don’t want to starve. 
  • Based on how I work I found that at once I sit down I don’t like getting up.
  • I like to schedule things on my productivity and my priorities and stuff like that.

 

[52:43] – What is one question that you wish corporations or business owners would ask you more?

  • “How can we recruit the right people in the first place that is not going to fly off six months after they get the job.”

 

[57:35] – What does efficiency mean to you?

  • Things are done in the most optimized and minimum distraction kind of way.

 

[58:29] –  If you had to start over again with the knowledge that you have today, which three things would you do over and over again to get back up to success again?

  • Business structuring activities.
  • Working on that lead generation aspect.
  • Tuning and optimizing the results creation and client services fulfillment.

 

AWESOME RESOURCES WE TALKED ABOUT

IN THIS EPISODE

 

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Find a job on Craigslist (US Version)

Hire your next great talent at Upwork

Find Remote Jobs on Angel List

IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

Only hire people that you know are going to be extremely dedicated to your organization.

Clair Kim

Whatever you’re doing side projects and so on, or even if they seem to be in a complete different industry find a way to tie it back together.

Clair Kim

Efficiency means things are getting done in the most optimized way and with minimum distraction.

Clair Kim

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT

  https://clairlydesigned.com/

  https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairk/

  https://www.instagram.com/iamwhalie/

Expectations, Empowerment & Ethnic Minorities with Sheng Herr

Expectations, Empowerment & Ethnic Minorities with Sheng Herr

by | Apr 22, 2020 | Impactful Leadership, Mindset Mastery

Expectations, Empowerment & Ethnic Minorities with Sheng Herr

A business strategist and founder of the minority girl boss society - empowers minority service-based and creative girl bosses to build their dream business, market it online, and create a life that they love.Raised in the Hmong culture, which has many limiting rules and expectations of women, Sheng has boldly stepped out of the boundaries of her culture!In today’s episode, Sheng and Monique are talking about the big & important mission to empower minority women entrepreneurs to have it all!

HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[1:34] – Monique introduces her guest, Sheng Herr.

 

[1:57] – Tell everyone who you are. What you’re doing? Where are you from?

  • My name is Sheng.
  • I am a business, diversity and inclusivity strategist.

 

[3:19] – Tell me a little bit more about how you got to work in the space of minorities.

  • I keep having this hunger.
  • It was like a calling for me.

 

[5:46] – Tell everyone a little bit about where you were born and what’s your ethnicity.

  • I was born in Thailand, and then I came to America around three years old. 
  • I grew up within the Hmong culture, and I was bouncing this American culture.

 

[7:19] – Can you explain a little bit about what is the Hmong community?

  • The Hmong community originated in China.
  •  There are many different types of Hmong and then a lot of us, some of us migrated to America. 

 

[13:05] – Sheng talks about how blessed she is for having a business partner and husband at the same time.

 

[15:20] – How you felt like having this supportive community and having friends from different cultures?

  • I just went and look for those communities who supported me.

 

[18:36] – How do you go about seeking them out and what would be the first steps to approach them?

  • Google, Facebook.
  •  I just asked the people I would meet daily.

 

[22:02] – Have you had a lot of cultural experiences within relationships?

  • No, not at all.
  • I was very strategic with my relationships.

 

[34:38] – Tell me a little bit about how you’re raising your boys and how you’re making sure you are preserving your culture while being the rebellious beautiful woman that you are.

  • The way I’m raising my boys completely different is that in our culture, we don’t say I love you.
  • So the way I preserve my culture with them is that my husband I decided to homeschool them.

 

[52:04] – What does efficiency mean to you?

  • Efficiency means a focus on the things that will bring you happiness and fulfillment and will create an impact in the world. 

 

[53:10] – What are the three things that you would keep doing over and over again to get to success again?

  • Own your identity.
  • Know your self-worth.
  • Use the power of choices.

 

AWESOME RESOURCES WE TALKED ABOUT

IN THIS EPISODE

 

Learn about the Hmong Culture

Daughters Rising: Women Empowerment Program for Ethnic Minorties & Refugees

Ethnic Minorities in Thailand

IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

The only way we can break those barriers is if we insert ourselves into that community.

Sheng Herr

If you teach the children accountability, the future will be fine.

Sheng Herr

Efficiency means to focus on the things that will bring you happiness and fulfillment and will create an impact in the world.

Sheng Herr

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT

  https://www.shengherr.com/

   https://www.instagram.com/shengherr/

   https://www.linkedin.com/in/shengherr/

Remote-Work, Recruiting & Resilience with Anna Shcherbyna

Remote-Work, Recruiting & Resilience with Anna Shcherbyna

by | Apr 14, 2020 | Business, Time Management

Remote-Work, Recruiting & Resilience with Anna Shcherbyna

For the past 8 years, Anna has been working in Operations and Recruitment for both major companies and remote businesses. She currently, runs a remote-focused recruitment agency that helps companies hire top remote talent via a done-for-you service. She is originally from Ukraine but is currently location independent. In today’s episode, Anna and Monique are talking about big goals, both personally and professionally to bring value to the remote working community.

HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[02:07] – Monique introduces her guest, Anna Shcherbyna.

 

[04:13] – Tell everyone first, what are you doing? Where are you from? And who are you?

  • My name is Anna.
  • I am originally from Ukraine.
  • I run a remote agency, It is specifically helping online businesses hire remote teams all over the world.

 

[05:20] – How do you go about finding remote teams?

  • It’s such a unique process, in my personal opinion.
  • So what we do is we fully try to understand and, what we’ve done is we’ve figured out which job boards in which locations we can actually go to to find those specific people.

 

[12:00] – How can you evaluate the values of the people who are applying? And do they actually apply themselves? Or do you headhunt? Most of the people into the funnel? How does it work?

  • In terms of how we find them, the actual job boards or locations where we’re finding candidates are also the same locations where we can invite candidates.
  • In terms of values, I’d actually even pull that back a little bit and say, personality, culture fit.

 

[30:29] – How did you experience growing up? Did you grow up in Ukraine at all?

  • I was born there.
  • it was a really hard time. I actually had a year where like a gap year when I was I think 16 or 15.

 

[54:50] – What does efficiency mean to you?

  • The team creates efficiency.
  • I’m extremely passionate about a team because I truly believe that the reason that I got to be efficient in my business is with a team.
  • Surround yourself with people who are better than you at what you need them to be.

 

[1:02:09] – If you would have to start all over again which of the three things that you’ve done has been so successful that you would be doing them over and over again to get where you are now?

  • Learning that team can support me has been a revelation.
  • I’ve been able to grow my own skills and learn because of the people in my life.
  • People are the key to success. 
  • If you want to go fast, go alone if you want to go far go together.

 

AWESOME RESOURCES WE TALKED ABOUT

IN THIS EPISODE

 

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What are KPI`s?

Notion: The all-in-one-workspace

IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

Sometimes we learn from our own mistakes. Sometimes we learn from other people’s mistakes.

Anna Shcherbyna

Take care of the team, the team takes care of the business.

Anna Shcherbyna

If you want to go fast, go alone if you want to go far go together.

Anna Shcherbyna

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT

   https://letsremotivate.com/

  https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-shcherbyna/

Lessons, Leverage & Legacy with Matt Young

Lessons, Leverage & Legacy with Matt Young

by | Apr 7, 2020 | Lifestyle, Mindset Mastery

Lessons, Leverage & Legacy with Matt Young

Matt Young is a Real Estate Marketing Expert & Business Advisor who is also recognized as a Top 20 Entrepreneur by Forbes. His work has gained attention from major publications such as ABC, NBC, FOX, Entrepreneur, YahooFinance, Today Show, Thrive Global and more. In today’s episode, Matt and Monique are talking about what it takes to overcome adversity from a young age, to scaling your business and having the proper mindset to achieving your goals.

HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[01:44] – Monique introduces her guest, Matt Young.

[02:48] – Who are you? Where are you from? And what do you do?

      • I am a real estate marketing expert.
      • I own two different companies.

[04:28] – Do you think your Italian or your Chinese side is coming out more when you’re in the board meeting? 

      • It depends on whether I’m running mathematics or having to throw people over the dock more or less. 

[04:52] – Tell me how you got started.

      • When I was eight, that transpired into me thinking of different entrepreneurial ways to make money.

[06:13] – When you were eight years old and you found yourself basically homeless,  how was your first reaction at that moment?

      • At that moment I was thinking that I could shovel driveways in New York to be able to make my own money.

[12:02] – When you’ve been homeless you were still in school. How did you deal with that situation?

      • I think that there was a lot of pride involved.
      • I didn’t really share with my teachers or with my friends what my scenario was. 

[16:30] – So what was the turning point for you and wanting something new?

      • I would say probably the biggest turning point was when I was 20 years old.

[17:25] – When you had this turning point, what was the big mindset shift for you?

      •  I think that the perspective shift was that I have to take accountability for every single thing in my life, whether good or bad.

[19:11] – Who was the biggest influence in your life?

      • A lot of my influences come from people that I probably haven’t even met. 

[22:44] – Do you think that’s a learned skill to be resilient?

      • I think everybody has that strength and resilience inside of them.
      • I think that it’s just called upon at different moments.

[58:55] – What does efficiency mean to you?

      • Efficiency means seeing a way of doing things and creating a more streamlined or more automated or more delegated process to be able to accomplish what others are doing but in less time.

[59:36] – Which three things would you do over and over again to get back up to success?

      • I would delegate 99% of my business.
      • I would network.
      • Don’t take advice from anybody who’s not where I want to be.

 

AWESOME RESOURCES WE TALKED ABOUT

IN THIS EPISODE

 

TEDx TALK: Turn your Pain into Power - By Monique Lindner

Books - by Deepak Chopra

The 4 hour Workweek - by Tim Ferris

IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

Whatever you resist, persists.

Matt Young

The most successful people have the most uncomfortable conversations every single day.

Matt Young

Whatever you reveal, you heal.

Matt Young

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT

   https://www.mattyoungmedia.com/

   http://www.linkedin/mattyoungmedia

    https://www.instagram.com/imattyoung/

Failing, Foundations & Frameworks with Miha Matlievski

Failing, Foundations & Frameworks with Miha Matlievski

by | Apr 1, 2020 | Business, Mindset Mastery

Failing, Foundations & Frameworks with Miha Matlievski

In 2009, Miha had four companies go bankrupt overnight: landing him $5 million in debt. Contemplating suicide to escape the pain as he looked over the balcony, he had a life-saving AH-HA moment. He realized that failure was a normal part of life: admitting to himself that he failed and to recognize he needed to stop blaming others and circumstances. This was the turning point when he made a choice to learn from his failures so he could do things differently in the future and to help others.In today’s episode, Miha and Monique are talking about how to create a business and scaling it to 8 figures in less than a year and Miha's life mission to help entrepreneurs develop a healthy relationship with failure

HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[01:41] – Monique introduces her guest, Miha Matlievski.

 

[02:29] – Tell us who you are, where you from and what you’re doing?

  • I’m originally from Slovenia.
  • I’m the fail coach. So far, I think I’m still the only fail coach in the world.
  • I mostly help entrepreneurs because we entrepreneurs with our crazy big dreams and goals, we have to be out of the comfort zone a lot and that’s where failure happens.

 

[04:10] – Miha talks about an entrepreneur’s journey and failures.

 

[05:36] – Miha explains how important foundations are.

 

[17:06] – Miha gives advice to those who might be thinking about starting an entrepreneurial journey.

 

[19:02] – Miha talks about how he was doing at school by the age of 17.

 

[24:04] – Miha explains how greediness ruined his entire career.

 

[33:36] – Miha talks about how he loves being surrounded by fellow entrepreneurs.

 

[35:27] – Talk me a little bit through the identity crisis that you must have experienced?! 
So when I started working, one of the first things that I did was I had to figure out: 

  • Who am I?
  • What do I stand for?
  • What are my values?
  • My beliefs, my priorities, my goals.

 

[47:00] – When you actually tried to re-discover yourself: What type of questions would you ask yourself?

  • Do I really believe this? 
  • How does this reflect?
  • Why am I then not doing this?
  • Why I’m doing the opposite?

 

[56:59] – What does efficiency mean to you?

  • Efficiency is when you do something, do that properly.
  • Efficiency is just being mindful of your resources.
  • The constant finding of that balance between quality and quantity.

 

[1:02:13] – What would be the three things that you would keep doing over and over to get to success again?

  • Morning Routine is so important because it puts you in your driver’s seat from the start of the day.
  • Practicing mindfulness.
  • Practicing emotional intelligence.

     

    AWESOME RESOURCES WE TALKED ABOUT

    IN THIS EPISODE

     


    #The Wheel of Life –
    A self-assessment tool


    #TED Talks – by Pico Iyer


    #Facebook Group
    – The Leverage of Trust

    IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

    No entrepreneurial journey goes without any failures.

    Miha Matlievski

    Failing, get you to success but second of all foundations is what makes failing less painful

    Monique Lindner

    Building a business is the same thing as building your house.

    Miha Matlievski

    FIND OUT MORE ABOUT

    Website: https://www.fail.coach/ 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihamatlievski/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matlievski.miha