Every business owner has experienced decision fatigue at some point in their entrepreneur journey. It can easily lead to burnout and wasted time if you don’t adopt healthy mindsets and routines. In this episode, Emily shares one of her favorite methods for preventing decision fatigue, and how she uses it to make business choices more easily and deliberately. She explains the benefits of taking the pressure off of decision-making, and announces an upcoming change that’s underway because of...

If you’re a passionate creative business owner, it can be difficult to let yourself slow down. We get it— it can feel like a chore to take a full day of rest to simply do nothing. But sometimes, giving your brain 24-hours to be calm is a key to self-care. In this episode of 10 Minutes of Being Boss, Emily shares her top tips for having an enjoyable unproductive day and explains why having a mandatory lazy day is crucial in business. Watch the video of this episode here >> -- Find...

As a creative entrepreneur, business planning should be an ongoing priority. How can creative bosses actually plan for success? In this episode, Emily shares four habits that can help you prioritize your business better. From setting yearly goals to celebrating daily wins, taking the time to work on your business is just as essential as doing the work you need to do in your business. Watch the video of this episode here >> -- Find resources for this episode in the shownotes at...

How do you make your business better? It starts by identifying the gaps in your existing systems and then finding (and implementing) solutions for practical business process improvement. The path to more growth, better impact, and greater customer satisfaction all lie in the continuous improvement of working systems. In this episode, Emily shares 6 steps to improve the quality, productivity, and success of your company through process improvement. Watch the video of this episode here...

What does it take to be fulfilled and achieve success as a creative, business owner, or entrepreneur? Success is an ongoing journey and continual exploration that involves many layers. There's no magic solution to success, but rather several interconnected habits and commitments you must be willing to learn and practice. In this episode, Emily shares the Being Boss philosophy of "doing the work" for success, with helpful tips on how to show up as the best boss you can be in both business and...

Taking constructive feedback isn’t always easy and can even be uncomfortable. Being a free-spirited creative or a Type-A business owner can make it more difficult to see the upside to criticism. The ability to consider constructive criticism like a boss is not only a sign of emotional maturity, it allows you to hear an outside perspective that will most often take you to the next level. That’s why Emily is sharing her tips for receiving, filtering, and using constructive criticism. Watch...

If you are your own boss, either a business owner, an artist or a freelancer, being boss is such a wonderful thing to make your dreams a reality. You can do things based on your own terms and have a life according to your rules. But as you do the work to have this all happen, at some point of your journey, you’ll start to feel a lack of motivation. Today, Emily is sharing with us some top habits and tactics to help you get motivated to do the work and be a boss of your life and your...

 At some point in running a business, creative entrepreneurs often find themselves focusing more on everyday tasks like email, social media content, and other administrative tasks and forgetting that the main reason they started their business is to have creative freedom and to do work that they love. In this episode, join Emily as she shares four tactics for putting your creativity first, so you can be more creative and build a business that you'll continue to be passionate about. Watch...

Making decisions in your business can be hard and overwhelming, because not only does it affect the trajectory of your career and your life but also the lives and careers of your team, your vendors, and even your clients and customers. But even so, you have to make decisions to move your business forward, and there is no silver bullet to assist us in making the best decisions for our business. But there is a boss secret weapon, which Emily Thompson shares with you in the episode. Watch the...

When you start your own business, you're putting yourself in the position to have a million different opportunities at your doorstep. It's overwhelming, which is why you need to have a system in for prioritizing projects and opportunities so that you're taking the right steps in our business. In this episode, Emily shares a simple 5-step process to help you prioritize ideas, opportunities, and projects so that you will put your time in effort in the right places.

Fraudy feelings are the worst, especially if you are a human being who goes out in the world and tries to do great things. But as a boss, it is your job to overcome them, to stop them in their tracks. In this episode, Emily dives deep into imposter syndrome (aka imposter complex) and how we can overcome fraudy feelings to create not just great things but leave a legacy.

If you're an online business owner, you want to be an influencer. Maybe not the influencers of Instagram fame, but you do want to influence your audience, your customers, your clients to take the action that you want them to take. In this episode, Emily shares 5 tips from members of the Being Boss Community for growing your influence and your brand. If you're an online business owner, you want to be an influencer. Maybe not the influencers of Instagram fame, but you do want to influence...

6 productivity tips to help you find focus in your work and hone your craft as a creative, business owner, or entrepreneur.

Your money mindset has a huge effect on your ability to show up in your business and reach your goals. In this episode, I'm taking you through one of a simple and quick money mindset exercise to have you bringing some awareness to your feelings around money and expanding your idea of what's possible in your business.

As a professional podcaster (like, I get paid to podcast) who started a podcast before they were as plentiful as Instagram accounts, I know a thing or two about showing up and creating content in this medium. In this video, I'm sharing my top 6 lessons (plus a few sub-lessons), I've learned from 6 years of podcasting.

Setting goals are an important part of growth, but not everyone sets goals the same way. No matter *how* you set goals, in this video I’m sharing 4 goal-setting business questions to assist you in clarifying 4 goals that every business owner should set for themselves and their business. Then, how you tackle them is up to you!

Navigating 2021 presents its own set of challenges as we pick back up our lives and work, with the baggage that 2020 has left us in tow. In this episode, I'm sharing why the transition into this new year isn't like any old New Year's flip, and sharing my top 4 habits for bringing yourself out of what has been so you're fully prepared to embrace all that 2021 has to offer.

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