This small group program is designed to meet the needs of coaches, consultants, creatives, and independent professionals who provide services and have been in business for a minimum of 1-3 years. A brand new business owner is learning a lot of business and marketing basics that we assume you already know when you join Boss Up Breakthrough.  If this is not your first business,  you might still be a fit, so go ahead and apply and we can figure it out in the screening call. 

Some of us come to solopreneurship with a lot of business background and are quick learners and implementers.  Others move at a slower pace and acquire knowledge and skills over time.  Two different solopreneurs could be at a similar place with very different amounts of business experience.  If you think this program is right for you, even though you have been in business a long time, go ahead and apply and we can talk about it in the screening call.

While the principles and practices of the Boss Up System apply to a variety of businesses,  you will need to choose which of your businesses to focus on while going through the program. One of the core components of Boss Up is boundaries, so choosing which business to focus on during the program will be an important boundary for you to set going in. 

I have worked one-to-one with a number of solopreneurs launching product-based businesses, however, this is not my area of greatest expertise.  The Boss Up Breakthrough small group program is specifically designed for service-based businesses.  

The Boss Up Breakthrough is a small group program that is designed to create change in several fundamental areas of a small service business that tend to be stumbling blocks to success and profitability for female solopreneurs.  

It is not a course, because you will be having a guided experience within an intimate community of your peers and it is not a membership that continues like a monthly subscription.  I have incorporated aspects of a mastermind into Boss Up because they can be powerful ways to leverage the group experience, but unlike a typical mastermind, you do not have to be on a hot seat in Boss Up, unless you choose to. 

One of the main reasons I pivoted from mindset coaching to business strategy over the past few years is because of the huge number of female solopreneurs I have seen who just keep learning and “getting ready” but keep putting off pulling the trigger.  Mindset is important, and this program does include a fair amount of mindset work, but we need to be do-ers, not just learners.  The best way to learn is to take action and test your results.  In a nutshell, we will do both. 

Like almost everything in life, you will get out of this program what you put into it.  That means showing up regularly, having an “all in” attitude, deciding ahead of time to participate fully, and getting as much out of it as possible.  

That being said, you get to decide how that participation looks.  Some people just want to come to the calls and implement things on their own. Others will also take an active role in the Voxer chats and private community, as well.  Everyone has different needs, goals, and time constraints and you will always be encouraged to do what is right for you.  

This is a difficult question to answer, because I don’t fit neatly into any of those predetermined categories.  Chances are you don’t either,  which may be one of the reasons you decided to start working for yourself.  

I do coach people by providing guidance, support, and accountability, but unlike a coach, I give feedback and advice based on having owned several businesses and having worked alongside many business owners.   I ask direct questions and give my opinion, but I never tell you what to do.  I present options.  I am also ridiculously intuitive at uncovering the unconscious beliefs and behaviors that hold us back, but unlike a therapist, my role is that of a mentor who walks the talk, not a healer.  

Unlike a course where you are promised lifetime access to the course materials (which always seems like a selling point, but nobody ever goes back and looks at them again, if they even finished the course, period) this is a group coaching and mentorship group, so when it’s over, it’s over.  

You will have 30 days to download anything you have not previously downloaded onto your own laptop or cloud-based storage.  I encourage you to download materials (worksheets, transcripts, etc) as we go along, to avoid the possibility of worrying about missing out or running out of time later.  

There are optional ways to interact and ask questions between coaching calls - through the Voxer walkie-talkie app (you will receive instructions to download the free version onto your smartphone and be invited to connect with me and with the Boss Up Baddies group.  For those who break out in hives at the thought of one more app on their phone,  we will also have a private community inside your member area, also called The Boss Up Baddies where you can ask questions, do a little victory dance to celebrate taking action and wins and post info of interest to the group.  These are in lieu of yet another Facebook group. 

The main reason I am intentionally keeping this program small and interviewing each person before enrolling them is that I actually give a shit about my client's success. 

I want them to get everything they came for and more.  Most of all, I want them to blow their own minds and feel more confident, capable, and courageous than they ever have since they started their own business. But, I am a parent of three children (two sons and a daughter) and was a single parent for over a decade, including their teen years and that experience taught me that I can never control the outcome when other human beings are involved.  

And, if I am the one guaranteeing the results, I am robbing the other person of the significance of their achievement.  So, no, there is no guarantee, but I do guarantee that I will show up fully and do my part 100%.

This is one of the most important questions you could be asking yourself if you are seriously considering joining us in The Boss Up Breakthrough.  If you tend to sign up for things on impulse or only when you’re feeling desperate,  you already know that these decisions almost always turn out to be regrettable and this would be no different.  

But, one of the most reliable ways to test your readiness is to ask yourself how you would feel if you are in the exact same position in your business in 6 months that you are in now (income, profit, clients, team, offers, etc. ) If thinking about that is more stressful than confronting what is not working and doing something about it,  you are ready. 

One of the most important lessons I have learned from being self-employed for the past 12 years is that changing our relationship with risk and failure is the biggest boss-up we can make.