In this episode of the Marketing in Yoga Pants Podcast, Brit interviews Stacy Fischer, Founder, Business & Life Coach at The W Collective. Stacy coaches co-founder female entrepreneurs. Learn how she is focusing on the duality of systems and self care for herself and her clients in her coaching practice.
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Topics:
- Working for a non-profit at the time her boyfriend at the time (now husband) wanted to start an industrial design product business
- Co-founding that business and running the behind-the-scenes ‘business’ side while he worked on the industrial design products
- Growing the business through getting married, having children, and expanding
- Stepping back from her main role that business and more into coaching at The W Collective
- Going to The Life Coach School to become certified as a life coach
- Coaching her first few clients for free
- Receiving her first payment as a coach from a client she had coached for free at first
- Gaining new clients through referrals from there
- Looking ahead to a 6 week program about systems and self care in Q4
- Recognizing that coaching her clients 1:1 is her sweet spot
- Helping her clients understand that they cannot control their partner or co-founder and learning how to navigate compromise
- Taking the time to live the life she wants to live with her family while running the business
- Creating boundaries to protect her time with her family
- Being okay with enforcing those boundaries
- Giving advice for female co-founders out there not to put your own expectations for yourselves onto your partners, and to truly hear and listen to what they are communicating to you
Quote:
“It’s okay to be exactly where you are on this journey.”
