Building your Businesswith Sara Troy and her guest Natasha Samson. On air from January 16th
I am at a place where I have had success in my business and have recently been feeling the “winter” or “going inward” of resting, cleansing, focusing on what self-care means for me “at this time” (which is good food, sleep & rest, exercise & financial stability) and it looks different than the self-care at other times. Taking a pause. Reassessing what I want to keep and let go of with my business, what direction I want to take it.
Being “in” that inevitable entrepreneurial dark night of the soul and what it is like, how to navigate that. Knowing when you need to accept rest and accept not knowing the answers and only knowing you need to follow your joy and see where that leads you.
As you have said this journey is about the person and being an entrepreneur helps you grow, uncover, and become the person that is meant to help others.
“I Want More from Life!” is the backdrop of my offering. I offer counselling, host retreats, speak and teach on shifting mindset. Pulling from how food affects our emotions, daily habits & rhythms that help the body run efficiently, psychology (limited beliefs & blocks) to yoga, breathing & meditation. All this with a spiritual undertone. Mind, Body & Soul healing.
I also am an engineer part-time putting a serious dent in GHG reduction on the daily from existing building.
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Building Your Businesswith Sara Troy and her guest Angelic Williams, on air from January 9th
I’ve always struggled with my why. I thought I was destined for one path but it took so many twists and turns that I wonder now if it’s all luck or truly pre-determined to have unfolded this way. I’ve always been a bit of an odd duck. Marching to the beat of my own drum. Through my experiences and loss, I’ve realized that the sound of my drum is for the dreamers that want to make their visions a reality and how to guide them on a path to success.
Angelic (Angie) Williams, creative Swiss Army knife, business consultant, business credit builder, recovering perfectionist, and amateur comedian.
With a diverse background spanning architecture, real estate, and entrepreneurship, she’s built affordable housing, started numerous startups, worked with other startups and small businesses to build their business, exhibited at the Forbes Under 30 conference and was in ESSENCE Magazine. Currently she works to help business owners build their business credit in order to make their dreams a reality without suffocating under personal debt.
She’s most happy when she’s exploring new places, culture or food.
Angelic (pronounced as an-juh-leek) is an author, entrepreneur, startup ecosystem builder and changemaker passionate about elevating BIPOC and queer voices. Her career spans several realms, including startups, writing and architecture.
Startups | Entrepreneurship | Tech
In 2018 she founded, MyUmbrella: an online platform that serves as a creative outlet for LGBTQ+ community members. Unlike other platforms, MyUmbrella invites community members who want to share their stories the opportunity to do so by joining our Writers Cohort. Their published work reminds us that we’re not as alone as we think we may be. Angelic was honored in the May/June 2022 issue of Essence Magazine, spotlighting queer leaders.
Most recently, she was the Senior Program Manager at StartOut, a national nonprofit that supports the LGBTQ+ entrepreneurial community by providing the resources entrepreneurs need to succeed, promoting the successes of our community, and researching the economic impacts of LGBTQ+ discrimination. During her tenure, she oversaw a 200% program and expansion and facilitated hundreds of introductions and exposure opportunities to LGBTQ+ founders in the US and overseas.
Having wrestled with burnout on her own ambitious journey, she harnessed personal experiences and a vast network cultivated within the tech community. The outcome? “Toxic Ambition” – a transformative course engineered to combat burnout. Tailored for ambitious professionals, entrepreneurs, and students alike, this course delves deep into the reasons behind goal-induced burnout, the silent surrender, and the shadows of depression or anxiety. It’s more than a course – it’s your toolkit for orchestrating a life where ambition thrives in harmony.
Additionally, she was the founding lead of the Black Women Talk Tech San Francisco Chapter and was selected to exhibit at the Forbes Under 30 conference in 2018.
Writing
Angelic’s debut novel, Immersive Love, showcases her prolific and engaging writing style through a queer love story that will make you laugh, cry and keep you guessing until the end.
From 2020 – 2023 she was a founding Advisory Council member for the Cureve Foundation, an organization whose mission is to empower lesbians, queer women, trans people, and non-binary people to share our culture and stories, connect with each other, and raise visibility.
Free Business Credit Report. I have an intake form that has a “how did you hear about us” section. I can set you up as an affiliate in out system
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Building Your Business with Sara Troy and her guest Carla Vaughn, on air from January 9th
The phrase “We are only limited by the things that we allow to limit us” highlights the power of our mindset in overcoming internal barriers like doubts and fears. Our potential for success and productivity is like a key in our pocket, representing our innate abilities and strengths. Realizing and using these strengths may require external guidance or an internal moment of clarity. Such guidance, whether from a mentor or a life experience, helps us find the courage to unlock new opportunities.
Embracing this proactive mindset transforms challenges into stepping stones, essential for personal and professional growth. It’s about seizing opportunities, taking risks, and continually growing. Ultimately, unlocking our full potential often hinges on recognizing our self-imposed limitations and having the encouragement to step beyond them, opening the door to our aspirations.
After publishing my book, The Money Source, I dedicated myself full time to bringing my message to conferences around the world. Whether as a keynote speaker or a workshop leader, I break through the boundaries that are limiting your team, your attendees, or you, the leader.
I have spent over 20 years building my accounting business, Business & Financial Management Services, have managed my non-profit Financial Literacy First, have received numerous awards and accolades for speaking and business acumen. As a multi-degreed professional, my passion is small businesses. I resonate with the both the joys and struggles, I’ve been through it and now want to share what I’ve learned with others who can benefit.
My favorite audiences to speak for are small business owners, networking groups, chambers of commerce, association meetings, and conferences with a majority of small business owners.
Newest book The Money Source helps you to focus on the things that matter most. We look at working to change your self-talk and your mindset. Be intentional on what you want in life and make it happen.
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Building Your Business with Sara Troy and her guest Dr Christiaan Willems, on air from December 12th
I have been a coach and consultant in the corporate sector for more than 20 years, specialising in non-verbal and on-camera communication. But my professional background (after leaving Consulting Engineering behind) spans some 40 years in the performing arts, music, and television. For 25 of those years I was a professional Mime artist, creating, performing, and touring solo mime shows.
One of these solo shows, titled Son of Romeo – a mime version of Romeo & Juliet created in the style of a Bugs Bunny cartoon in which I played all the parts (with no words), including: Romeo; Juliet; a cast of thousands; and one small dog – I eventually adapted for television.
This was partly in response to my Mime teacher’s suggestion that “…you can’t do Mime on television – it doesn’t work – the silence…”, and partly because of my training and experience in television (including working for the BBC in the UK), which revealed a way of not only making it work and achieving it, but by utilising the visual language and technical capabilities of television – in this case the fairly early days of Blue Screen technology – creating the ‘cartoon’ aspects which had been hugely influential in the creation of the original stage show.
Both the visual and movement styles drew heavily from a diverse and divergent range of sources, not only the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner cartoons, but also: the Sistine Chapel; Errol Flynn’s swashbuckling Robin Hood movie; nonsensical comedy; and of course Shakespeare – with the ‘live’ human performer both playing and interacting with multiple characters on screen, against painted cartoon backgrounds. So, both the mime skills and the television knowledge and technology were adapted to support and enhance each other in a rather unique combination.
Fast forward a decade or so to 2000 and I began adapting those same Mime skills to the non-verbal aspects of professional communication – for television presenters, tertiary academics, and corporate professionals. Because Mime, at its most fundamental, consists of the analysis, manipulation and stylization of body-language. And with body language representing more than 55% of human communication, there was, for me at least, an inescapable logic in applying those mime skills and techniques to professional communication (this has been borne out over the past 20 years as I have coached literally hundreds of professional and academic clients).
Fast forward another decade or so and I am formalising that notion (as well as others involving music) through my doctoral research and thesis. And it is in that research context that an apparently entirely unrelated story emerged by serendipitous chance, which, if written as a film script no-one would believe. Yet it is absolutely true. And the role of Serendipity – in both that story and in my research – is what binds these two remarkable stories together.
The deliciously pretentious title of the Doctoral thesis is: Music, Mime & Metamorphosis – which simultaneously says everything and says nothing. Yet it describes, was a catalyist for, and holds depths of meaning, experience, and stories that would never have been revealed without a chance comment by someone in 1979 in London who casually suggested, “you should try Mime Chris. You’ve got the body for it”.
So what’s Mime got to do with it? Just about everything…
Dr. Christiaan (Chris) Willems is a professional communication consultant and coach who enjoys an extensive and uniquely diverse career across: creative industries; music; award-winning international television; corporate communication, and tertiary education.
Informed by this diverse professional experience, and formalised by doctoral research, Dr Chris has specialised in non-verbal and on-camera communication for more than 20 years – applying his trademarked concept of: The Stylised Version of You® to the professional presenting context.
Dr Chris’s unique coaching approach utilises his specialist expertise and experience in stage and screen performance – in particular 25 years as a professional Mime artist – to help professional communicators become Comfortable, Confident, Credible presenters, both live and on-camera.
I have a free Report/Booklet titled: ‘Going Digital’ – What you need to know before you set Foot – or Face – in front of a Video Camera!’
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Building Your Business with Sara Troy and her guest Paul Lange, on air from November 28th
Paul Lange get’s up every morning with the mission to transform how the world works, aligning business and pleasure as mutually inclusive.
He says boldly that in business, it matters very little what you do, because many millions of other people can do the same thing. Similarly having a “Why” or “Purpose” although important will only bring people to your door and maybe secure their first transaction. It does not drive repeat business. It is only the “HOW” of what you do that keeps people coming back, spending more money, more often and telling other people to do the same. How is experiential and experiences are both how we learn and how we determine our future actions, in the sales environment based on how we feel about whatever actions are taken.
With over three decades of experience in Private Equity/Venture Capital, Paul knows the power of the Pitch Deck document to help business owners shape and form how they give clients the type of experiences that drives to become repeat returning customers. The Pitch Deck is typically used to secure an appointment with an investor, however Paul shapes the Pitch Deck into a strategic instrument. This condensed snapshot, derived from his wealth of experience, becomes a guiding force for entrepreneurs up to medium-sized company owners in managing their businesses effectively. It facilitates informed decision-making and strategic planning, aligning actions with goals. Paul’s purpose, rooted in enabling individuals to live life and business on purpose with passion, finds expression in the pitch deck’s ability to empower business owners on their journey, maximizing the potential for financial success and operational freedom outlined in their initial aspirations.
Paul Lange is the founder of Manolutions Australia. With over 30 years in the Private Equity and Venture Capital industries, Paul’s business journey has been a rollercoaster, filled with highs and lows that have sculpted his approach to the game of life and business.
Not your average entrepreneur Paul has been the driving force behind starting, growing, and successfully selling businesses all the time incorporating the idea that business and pleasure can be aligned and mutually inclusive. What’s more, he’s been the go-to guy for others, helping them figure out how to speed up their growth and make a successful and profitable win-win exit.
What makes Paul stand out is his diverse experience – he’s been part of five businesses that hit the proverbial jackpot and learned a bunch from others that, well, didn’t exactly stick the landing. He sees those not-so-great moments as the R&D phase of business, like business crash test dummies, all of which revealed patterns that can lead to both success and failure.
For Paul, success is more than just the numbers on a balance sheet. It’s about mindful living, finding that sweet spot between personal and business wins. He’s spotted some behaviour patterns that can make or break success, and the cool part is he’s certain you can change those patterns if you know how.
At Manolutions Australia, Paul’s on a mission to share his wealth of knowledge. The company was founded to help you create management solutions that unlock and unleash your business’ full potential, no matter if you’re running a micro startup or a medium-sized enterprise.
Paul has been on the receiving end of countless pitches for investment and realised early on that there is a connection between being able to articulate in a Pitch Deck why your business is investable and having a successful business. These days Paul uses the Pitch Deck as a tool to help business owners achieve their best results and create a business that gives them the money, the freedom and importantly the personal fulfilment that is aligned with their aspirations when they first started out.
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