Quick Business Tips - Business Growth for the Human Behind the Brand
Ready for business growth, but worried about losing the heart of your business?I’m on a mission to give owners and visionary leaders the strategies to attract more leads and make your marketing and sales simple, fun, yet still aligned with your values.Each week, you’ll get…
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Q4 Time Management for Business Owners: Why Adding More to Your Plate Right Now Is the Wrong Move (opens the original)
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It's Q4, and your calendar is filling up with the holiday events at the same time your to-do list is getting longer. New goals, one more launch, a push to hit this year's numbers before the ball drops. Jennifer Swineford makes the case that this instinct, adding more instead of doing less, is backward. In this episode, Jennifer breaks down why Q4 anxiety pushes people to cram instead of cut, does the honest math on how many productive weeks are really left before January, and explains why burnou
Gratitude in Business Relationships: Why We Wait Too Long to Tell People They Matter (opens the original)
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A friend of Jennifer's is headed to a church retreat, and part of the assignment beforehand was for people close to her to write a letter stating what they appreciate and admire about her. Jennifer got asked to write one. Sitting down to write it made her realize how rarely she says any of it out loud, to the people in her personal and business life. In this episode, she talks about why we assume people already know how we feel, why saying it out loud feels so vulnerable, and why we keep telling
Customer Service Recovery: What Hospitality Really Looks Like When Something Goes Wrong (opens the original)
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Most businesses think hospitality is about doing everything right. Jennifer Swineford makes the case that it shows up most clearly when things go wrong. In this episode, Jennifer explains why a mistake, handled well, can build more trust and loyalty than if nothing had ever gone wrong in the first place. She breaks down the three ways most businesses botch a recovery, and replaces them with a three-step repair process. She also digs into why owning a mistake feels so hard in the first place, and
Fear and Decision Making in Business: How to Tell the Difference Before Fear Makes the Decision for You (opens the original)
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A few years ago, Jennifer Swineford sat in her own office and seriously considered shutting her business down. Not because it was failing. Because she was so burned out she couldn't tell if what she was feeling was real, or just fear wearing the costume of good judgment. In this episode, Jennifer breaks down why fear feels identical whether it's protecting you or standing in your way, and shares three questions to tell the difference so that fear doesn't make the decision for you. She also gets
Career Change After 40 for Women: Restlessness Isn't Always Telling You to Leave (opens the original)
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Three conversations this month. Three women who all said some version of the same thing: "I think I need to blow it all up and start over." Jennifer's noticing a trend running through client conversations and social feeds, women in their forties and fifties, deep into a career or business they built, feeling a restlessness that keeps getting translated into "leave, pivot, reinvent." In this episode, Jennifer makes the case for a different read on that feeling. Why the itch to burn it all down is
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