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The Business of Systems and Self Care with Coach Tikoshia

Why you have to check out today’s podcast:

  • Discover Coach Tiko’s experience that made her focus on self-care, systems, and time management in coaching her clients

  • Know how the life of her clients immensely change after shifting their mindset

  • Why self-care is considered a necessity for self-growth 

Summary

Tikoshia Davis is a holistic business coach who works with entrepreneurs in improving the operations of their service-based businesses to achieve better work-life balance.  She focuses on business systems and time management and places a lot of emphasis on enhancing self-care.

Join me in this episode as Coach Tiko gives us incredible insights on self-care.  Often, we are daunted by the daily challenges of running our business. But she firmly believes that you can build and grow your business without sacrificing quality and healthy life.  And that’s where her expertise on systems and time management will come to help. These are indeed what you need to work smarter and optimally experience the good things in life.

 

“Self-care is not something that you earn. It's not something that you wait.  It's something that you deserve, and it's a necessity like it is needed for you to grow and to keep going because we are number one, not a liability, but we are the business’ number one asset.”

- Tikoshia Davis

 

Topics Covered:  

00:36 – Brief background of Coach Tikoshia

01:15 – Tikoshia recalls her ordeals when she was starting her business and inspired her to serve other people holistically

03:16 – How she listened and paid attention to her clients’ problems and start offering her services on coaching and time and systems management

06:46 – The best way to get clients in building a business

09:34 – The tremendous changes in Tikoshia’s clients after helping them change their mindset and working with them

13:22 – Affirming and empowering one’s self as a sign of self-care

15:10 – How lowball pricing tends to create a ripple effect on the whole industry that you’re in

16:21 – Where to learn more about Coach Tiko and sign up for her free e-book “10 Ways to Get an Extra Hour in Your Day”


 Key Takeaways:

“There was no way I was going to be able to sustain that level of work without taking care of my stubborn without having a better balance. So, the choice was like, am I going to give up my business, or am I going to figure out a way to still maintain the business but have a better balance?   And so, it was through that experience that I learned the importance of self-care.” – Tikoshia Davis

“There's this misconception with entrepreneurship that all you got to do is jump on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and they're all influencers. That's not how it works. But it might work for some people.  What happens when those platforms are gone? You have to know how to build relationships and how to network in person.” – Tikoshia Davis

“People who enjoy teaching, I suggest that they try podcasting.  Be a guest on podcasts. That's a beautiful way to start to get used to talking about what it is that you do.” – Amelia Roberts

“We have to take the time to pour into ourselves, and it's not just about getting rest, but it's also about feeding into ourselves and knowing that I am worth this. I have done this work. I have this much experience. I have this to offer. I am amazing, like building yourself up, affirming yourself. We have to take the time to do that on a daily, if not daily, weekly. At least you know where you remind yourself of who you are, where you feed into yourself. That's self-care too.” – Tikoshia Davis

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The Business of Primary Care with Nurse Genevieve Swenson

Why you have to check out today’s podcast:

  • What are the challenges that Genevieve saw with her patients and colleagues that made her realize to start her own primary care business?

  • Learn the benefits that she gained from partnering with the co-founders of their company 

  • Know how a large insurance broker provides substantial benefits in the sales and operations of their company 

Summary

Today’ episode is a story of how good collaborations and partnerships will lead to beneficial gains and growth in every business.  This is how our guest Genevieve relied on her co-founders in building a primary care business not only to help solve the problems that she observes with patients but also in providing a great working environment with her fellow nurse practitioners.  As her new founding team wants to focus on the core of their business, they also partnered with an established insurance broker that has the available resources, marketing and sales techniques that supported their business goals. Tune in to find out more how these partnerships gave their company a competitive edge and discover Genevieve’s journey as a nursing professional and an entrepreneur.


“Entrepreneurship in business is a form of healing. We get to heal other people and other humans and make them whole and bring them to a better state of by you, by way of our services.”

 -Amelia Roberts

 

Topics Covered: 

 

01:48 – How Thompson, a connection from LinkedIn, introduced me to his healthcare business co-founder Genevieve

05:09 – Getting to know about Genevieve and their company Nice Healthcare

05:44 – From working in a traditional clinic as a Registered Nurse and Nurse Practitioner, Genevieve will share the two problem areas that she saw with healthcare clinics

07:08 – How she treated these problems paving the way to meet other people and build their ideal primary care business

09:18 – How their partnership with the largest insurance brokers in Minnesota helped their patients experience a different kind of healthcare solution and led their marketing and sales strategies

14:08 – Their company’s exciting and upcoming plans 

15:36 – How to best connect with Genevieve on social media

 

 

Key Takeaways:

 

“Interesting or beneficial collaborations are always eye-catching.” – Amelia Roberts

“If you have a solution that can help another human, you deserve to have that solution seen by others.” – Amelia Roberts

 

“The idea of nice health care came about in an attempt to help two different groups of people that would all be helping each other.” – Genevieve Swenson

 

“Even those little smaller partnerships are important with your business.” – Genevieve Swenson

 

“We're staying focused on our core product which is bringing amazing primary care without the barriers.” – Genevieve Swenson

 

 

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The Business of Accounting with Arnesha Bobo

Why you have to check out today’s podcast:

  • Discover how Arnesha helped small business owners understand their financial statements and any tax implications

  • The importance of having an accounting system in place for every business

  • The significance of building relationships and partnerships

Summary

Arnesha Bobo is the founder and CEO of Bausy Books Consulting that helps small business CEO transform their money habits and help them gain visibility on their business finances using a financial management system. 

In this episode, Arnesha will take us into a different perspective in understanding business finance.  She will not only educate us with the different accounting activities but will also provide meaningful insights on how visibility in terms of implementing financial infrastructure will help make sound and well-informed choices.  She will also tackle topics on how she markets her services, the process of selecting outsourced vendors, and how she partnered with different groups to support her business. Plus, she’ll give tips on what useful tools and systems that will increase efficiency and productivity in your business.

 

'‘Every time you spend or receive money, it affects your bottom line, which affects your possible tax liability or your approval or denial for business learning”.

- Arnesha Bobo

 

Topics Covered: 

 

00:49 – Arnesha gives a brief background of herself

01:12 – Helping people prepare for their retirement is one of the things that her firm specializes

01:57 – How she started with helping business owners with their retirement benefits

04:43 – Arnesha details how she explains the financial statements to her clients to better understand the tax implications

07:13 – How she helps people to be visible with their finances

08:57 – The initial infrastructure that she thinks business owners should have visibility

13:24 – How and where Arnesha promotes her services and get clients

16:47 – How she chose and picked outsourced vendors for her marketing strategies

19:54 – The different partners that are supportive and beneficial to her business

23:42 – Various associations that Arnesha is involved with and where to connect with her

25:30 – Tools or systems that she uses

 Key Takeaways:

“The very first part of the infrastructure is an accounting system. You need a system in place to track all the money that you are spending on receiving. Whether you are contributing money as a business owner, as owner investment or you are spending money to buy business licenses, to buy equipment, to hire your first purchase, your first bulk of inventory, you need an accounting system.” – Arnesha Bobo

 “So that visibility definitely starts with an accounting system. Now the other side of that is the accounting processes because we need to understand and put procedures in place.” – Arnesha Bobo

There's a lot of decision making that has to happen, but you need to work with an accountant to make sure that we are tracking your money.  Because that's going to help us better determine how to create a budget and sales forecast for your future.” – Arnesha Bobo

 “As a CEO, especially when you're first starting, you are wearing multiple hats, but you need to know when to turn to take them on and off.  Do not go into business thinking that you have to do it alone because you don't, you need that extra support.” – Arnesha Bobo

“It's good to have a certain level of knowledge before you outsource.” – Amelia Roberts 

 “There are different types of partnerships you can have, but partner with people who are already having the conversation that you want to have.” – Arnesha Bobo

 “When you are creating partnerships, you are creating relationships. Relationships are everything.” – Arnesha Bobo


Professional Organizations of Arnesha Bobo:

  • Urban League of Atlanta

  • The Entrepreneurship Center (TEC)

  • The Atlanta Black Chambers of Commerce

  • Russell Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (RCIE)

 

Systems and Tools Recommended by Arnesha Bobo:

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