Belief Alchemy with Megan O'Neill

In part two of my interview with Barbara Huson, we spoke on rewiring the mind and what women need to cultivate in order to reach financial power. In this first part of my interview with Barbara, we speak about her childhood and first marriage when she began the mindset work to arrive where she is today.

Barbara Huson (previously known as Barbara Stanny), is the leading authority on women, wealth and power. As a bestselling author, financial therapist, teacher & wealth coach, Barbara has helped millions take charge of their finances and their lives.

Barbara's background in business, her years as a journalist, her Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology, her extensive research, and her personal experience with money give her a unique perspective and makes her the foremost expert on empowering women to live up to their financial and personal potential.

Barbara is the author of 6 books and her 7th book, Rewire for Wealth, will be published on Jan. 2021.

I have long been a fan of  Barbara Stanny since I read "Sacred Success" in 2018.  She possesses an understanding of what women need to cultivate in order to reach financial power. In this first part of my interview with Barbara, we speak about her childhood and first marriage when she began the mindset work to arrive where she is today.

Barbara Huson (previously known as Barbara Stanny), is the leading authority on women, wealth and power. As a bestselling author, financial therapist, teacher & wealth coach, Barbara has helped millions take charge of their finances and their lives.

Barbara's background in business, her years as a journalist, her Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology, her extensive research, and her personal experience with money give her a unique perspective and makes her the foremost expert on empowering women to live up to their financial and personal potential.

Barbara is the author of 6 books and her 7th book, Rewire for Wealth, will be published on Jan. 2021.

Rebecca Hamilton is the Founder + CEO Chick Boss Cake, Author of The Million Dollar Bakery. She began her business with a $5000 business grant from the local town with a note that said they doubted she would make a go of her business. She not only made a go but just opened two more locations and made a million dollars in the COVID era. There is so much to learn mindset-wise and practically from this dynamic entrepreneur!

"Hadriana Leo is The Money Navigator™. As a Wealth Coach, Strategist and Consultant, she is on a mission to inspire, empower and equip women to unapologetically embrace wealth. Her unique methodology combines the math and mindset to help women confidently create their path to lasting wealth and legacy unapologetically!"

She was a financial advisor who was bouncing cheques while managing millions for others, she knew it wasn't just a matter of discipline but a mindset shift she needed to make. She came to understand what she was missing and needed to learn behavioural cash flow behaviour. Plus she wanted to put a women's lens on this. She brings a unique female approach to managing and investing money. 

Allison Hardy is a mompreneur who began her business after being let go from her academic career at eight months pregnant. She would be the first to say that beginning your career under such stressful circumstances is not ideal, but she learned quickly and created a profitable multiple six-figure business. She has learned skills, tools and mindset along the way as she tries to balance motherhood and profit while keeping her sanity.

In the episode with Allison, we learn:

☞ the importance of automation for a more accessible business

☞ "Mom" beliefs you need to be aware of might block your business growth

.☞ Why Instagram and tools like Reels can make marketing effective and exciting to do.

Allison is a great guest both mindset-wise and strategy for business. 

Learn more about her upcoming events and how to work with her: http://www.allisonhardy.com/

Joanne  "Joegirl" Lauzon has always been a creative spirit and started her first business at the young age of twenty as a Graphic Designer and never stopped building new creative businesses. 

Joe shares with me the lessons, hardships and victories like a $50 000 course launch on the first try. She has done it all and built it from the ground up!

We speak about:

- Using your intuition to navigate and make decisions in business

- Gaining your confidence as a creative professional without a traditional visual arts degree

- Upscaling her mindset after failed business ventures

- Conquering the limiting 'starving artist" mindset

- How to adapt and pivot to a new business 

- Finding her passion and joy, leading women to find their creative energy, which led to the creating of JoeGirl Camp!

Check out Joe's creativity on Instagram @heyjoegirl 

To learn more about Joe and her business, visit https://www.joegirl.com/camp 

Julie Greenham is a Business Coach for introverts! She coaches introverted business owners who are comfortable behind the scenes but want to be more consistently visible to their audience so they can create more impact and generate more revenue.

Are you an introvert who is thinking about starting a business or a business already working but feels like a fish out of water in a seemingly extroverted world? This is the podcast for you! 

I met Julie in Toronto at a business networking event during her first business incarnation as a French language teacher with a thriving business. Within a short time after  Julie bravely decided to create a new business that would suit her natural personality and help other introverted businesswomen to find their best self. I had not thought about what it meant to be an introverted businesswoman and my conversation with Julie gives me great insight into how it feels and is experienced. Regardless of whether you are an introvert or not, I think this is so valuable to understand how so many of your introverted clients or business friends feel and think.

In this episode of Belief Alchemy with Megan O'Neill we peak about:

- What it means to be an introvert

- How to use mindfulness in your business even if you are not an introvert!

- Learn beliefs Julie used to create a thriving business as an introvert in the world of extrovert expectations. 

- Introverts are excellent clients and friends in my experience, and Julie explains how to work with them.

Many female entrepreneurs are challenged with confidence blocks in their businesses. I talked with Cathy Cochrane about women feeling their power and how our experience with hormones affects how we feel in our business. 

To learn more about Cathy and her business: As a holistic nutrition consultant, Cathy Cochrane looks beyond calories and nutrients to what it takes to truly nourish yourself. She sees your relationship to food and eating as a doorway to a deeper relationship with your Self. For over 13 years, Cathy has been guiding women through that door by exploring their physiological needs from a place of the soul.

"When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."

Karla got her entrepreneurial chops at six years old, selling candy to friends for a profit and went on as an adult in a new country to create six businesses while being a wife and a mum. She's now found her true passion for coaching immigrants to start and scale businesses in their adopted country Canada.

Karla Briones is a Mexican-Canadian serial entrepreneur with retail, food & beverage, franchise, online and consulting businesses.

 Amanda DeGrace is a wellness entrepreneur and mom of 3 under the age of 10. Her passion over the last 15 years has been her company Little Lotus Yoga where they specialize in Prenatal, Postnatal and Kids yoga classes and teacher trainings. 

Amanda also provides business coaching for other professionals who are looking to start their own business with a solid foundation and reach new growth goals. 

Wendy Brookhouse is the founder of Black Star Wealth, a financial services firm which assists ambitious entrepreneurs and professional find, grow and keep their money from across the country.  She understands that money does not equal math and creatively building financial plans that are rooted in behavioural finance.

Join me for an enlightening conversation with Holly Warner, a Functional Medicine Practitioner, Cannabinoid Therapist, Herbal Alchemist and GreenPreneur to learn how cannabis use has evolved from getting high to preventative medicine. 

  Holly Warner is a Functional Medicine Practitioner and certified Cannabinoid Therapist who specializes in hormone imbalances, with the use of bio-identical hormone replacement therapy, as well as thyroid/gut/adrenal health, autoimmune diseases, LDN therapy, functional genetic testing and clinical and forensic nutrition.  Her approach is rooted in science while combined with a modern holistic perspective.

The COVID19 has thrown the world into chaos financially.  It's challenging for most people but it can be particularly divisive for couples. Megan has tips after having experienced being in financial insecurity when her husband's industry fell apart and working with couples for over five years on creating better relationships. 

To learn more about Megan and her life-changing mindset method, visit www.meganoneill.ca 

Have you thought about creating your own podcast but found excuses not to? Do you believe the market is already saturated? You may think it's a lot of technical work and that's just not your forte. 

With a changing effect of the COVID16 environment and time like never before maybe it's time to take action.  

In this episode,  I speak with Susan Diaz of CP Digital Marketing and Podcast Host of the successful marketing podcast "The 4 am Report" about the marketing advantage to starting your own podcast; and how to get a greater ROI on your podcasts if you have already one. 

Learn about typical mindset blocks and practically how to get started. 

Scarlett O'Hara the main character in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind begins life as a spoiled wealthy Southern Belle, daughter of a wealthy slave-owning father in the American South but as the Civil War engulfs her world, she is thrust into poverty and chaos. 

I have thought of Scarlett O'Hara many times during the last month as we are hit with the uncertainty and fear of the Convid 19. The character is unusual and demonstrates a great mindset in the middle of chaos and destruction. Here are three important lessons we can learn from Scarlett to help us survive and rebuild after.

To learn more about mindset and my unique method: www.meganoneill.ca

There’s a great Warren Buffett quote that I absolutely love: Rule number one - don't lose money. Rule number two - never forget rule number one.

But as most of us who have clawed our way up - incurred student debt, raised a family, started our own businesses, etc., know - rule number one is HARD. Rule number two? Even harder.

That’s why I’m thrilled to introduce today’s Belief Alchemy podcast guest, Melany Goodhue , the founder and CEO of Pulse Wealth Management!

💰 Did you grow up in a less than ideal financial situation?

💰 Feel somehow “less than” because of it?

💰 Weren’t taught to budget and/or save?

💰 Are you currently maxed out and robbing Peter to pay Paul?

Then you’re going to LOVE what Melany brings to the table! Trust me, she’s not someone who took a straight line toward her desire to help others succeed financially.

Rather, her story CEMENTS what I sincerely believe - that when we hold a helping hand out to others in need, it comes back to you ten-fold. 🙌

So, click here to have a listen . You’ll walk away empowered, and more driven than ever to take the steps needed to turn your financial life around.

Melany Goodhue was voted Ottawa’s Favourite Financial Advisor by her loyal and dedicated clients, by Faces Magazine in 2019.  When you work with Melany, you will create a plan to build wealth, invest your money and protect yourself, the people who matter most to you, and your business.  A portion of the proceeds Melany receives from working with you will go towards her Smile fund, a fund that has been set up for another underprivileged, deserving child.

Kathryn Hocking is a Business Astrologer and Soulful Launching Mentor helping Soulful businesswomen to align their business to their soul calling and to launch their soul work out into the world in soulful, strategy and sustainable way. Kathryn's focus is teaching a new generation of soulful business women the art of astrology so that they can be more aligned and also go deeper with their own clients using Astrology. Kathryn delivers high quality and practical astrology training through her Academy - the Embodied Soul Astrology Academy.

Prior to launching her Astrology Academy, Kathryn created several wildly successful online programs including the e-Course Launch Formula and Launch Mastery. She has generated over $1 million in online revenue through her leveraged programs and developed a loyal and raving community of soul clients leading more than 1,000 ambitious entrepreneurs through the process of creating and launching their own online products and programs.

To learn more about Kathryn and to sign up for her free astrology course. 

Who would wave goodbye to household names and a successful digital marketing agency to start a brand new business? In 2017, Helen Pritchard did exactly that and began training entrepreneurs, coaches and businesses in LinkedIn lead generation.

A year later, sales for her LinkedIn Mastermind alone totalled nearly £218k.

In 2019, she hit the £1 million turnover mark.

In her two short years in business, Helen has reached hundreds of thousands of business owners with her training and won an Enterprise Vision Award in the Internet Industry category.

Over 10,000 people have taken part in her famous free 5-day challenges in 2019, and she aims to quadruple that figure in 2020.

A single mum of two girls, Helen has proven that dropping the BS excuses and just sitting down and doing the work gets you results. She’s become known for her no-nonsense approach and now mentors others who want to replicate her success.

It's here. 2020.  A new decade for a new way of feeling and women have never been called upon more in history to step up and lead. This episode with Megan is about overcoming our biggest mindset blocks as women to become leaders in business, politics and in our communities.  The world needs equilibrium and I'm determined to help women to get there!

My guest Colleen Kanna has made many career changes in her life from a fashion merchandiser to VP in the Financial Industry, but after surviving breast cancer and finding very few soft clothing options for those receiving cancer treatment she decided to fulfill her calling as a Clothing Designer. Cokanna Designs was born from the philosophy that you can be stylish and comfortable at the same time. Join Colleen and me to learn the beliefs that Colleen has wrestled with and the wisdom of being a cancer thriver. 

Sleep Consultant Diane Dauphine is my guest on this week's podcast where we speak about exhaustion, pitfalls of being an entrepreneur and self-care tips for better sleep.

 Diane, of Sleep Consulting Services, is a  Sleep Specialist for Children, Teens and Adults. She began her business shortly after becoming a mother after she quickly recognized the importance of sleep when our two children were babies and as they grew into active young children.  This passion has led her to expand her services offering support as a Holistic Science of Sleep™ Specialist, who is committed to developing a sleep system specific to your needs. She guides and supports clients through the process every step of the way. To learn more about Diane's service, visit. 

http://www.soundofsleep.ca

I'm pleased to have my good friends Lara Wellman in this episode. Lara is a Certified Business Coach who believes small business owners can make more money, love the work they do and still having time to enjoy their lives!  Through coaching, group programs, workshops and events, she helps business owners get the clarity they need to take the right action for them and their business.

I made an assumption about Gwyneth Paltrow in the Harvey Weinstein scandal and this is my apology and what I think you can learn to improve your mindset from my mistake. 

In episode three of Belief Alchemy with Megan O'Neill, I interview Author of the children's book  "Three Little Piggybanks" and Financial Literacy and Credit Counsellor Pamela George about growing up in Trinidad as the daughter of a single mom,  businesswoman and illiterate. She created important beliefs that have helped her to rise from being homeless as a child to educating women on how to empower themselves financially. 

Pamela George is a Financial Literacy and Credit Counsellor who helps her clients take control of their finances so they can live the life they want.

She has helped her clients pay off debt without damaging their credit; have enough money to travel for the first time in years, and even build up that ever-elusive emergency fund.

Pamela believes that her life’s work is to empower her clients to take ownership of their finances and she takes pride in offering unbiased and impartial advice on matters regarding personal finance. Pamela is able to do this because she works for YOU, her client.

Pamela’s main goal is to help her clients stop stressing about money and start living their dreams.

Pamela is an Accredited Financial Counsellor of Canada (AFCC) and a member of the Association of Financial Counselling, Planning and Education (AFCPE).

My latest guest on Belief Alchemy with Megan O'Neill is marketing maverick  Susan Diaz who joined me to talk about her mindset journey as an immigrant in a new country and as the owner of industry-changing digital marketing business. 

Susan Diaz is the founder and Chief Content Strategist of c+p digital, a digital marketing agency with a strong focus on delivering effective content as a tool for conversion. Susan has a  grown-up human’s amount of experience in content. On every side of the marketing table. Advertising. Broadcast. Corporate. Digital – long before it became ‘required reading’.

She began her full-time entrepreneurial journey in 2011 as a new mom and recent immigrant to Canada and has grown c+p to a communication consultancy with deep niche knowledge in finance, technology, and health.

Susan is big on building dream teams, and her team vision involves blurring the lines between ‘agency and client’, creating a model that brings senior talent together in a way that prioritizes flexibility, accountability and growth.