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the bossbabe podcast

372. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome, Why It Never Feels Like “ENOUGH” + Mental Resilience w/ Melody McCloskey

the bossbabe podcast

Natalie Ellis

Entrepreneurship, Education, Marketing, Self-improvement, Business

4.92.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week Lindsay is joined by Melody McCloskey, the CEO of the wildly successful company- StyleSeat. They go deep into all things imposter syndrome and how to finally overcome it, how to build your mental resilience, navigating motherhood, and the change of perspective that it brings to being a CEO and business owner.  TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro To Episode 03:01 - The History of StyleSeat 07:14 - How to maintain Self Belief in the early years 10:52 - The State of Entrepreneurship in 2024 16:52 - Ease is a State of Mind 21:41 - Finding Joy whilst being Being a CEO 27:08 - How Motherhood changes Perspective 31:24 - Being Genuine on Social Media 34:55 - The Day in a Life of a CEO 43:49 - Your Company is like a Relationship 47:03 - The Key Principle of being an Entrepreneur 54:50 - How WFH Affects Family Life 59:19 - Closing Thoughts RESOURCES + LINKS Join The Société: The Place to Build A Freedom-Based Business Get Our Weekly Newsletter & Get Insights From Natalie Every Single Week On All Things Strategy, Motherhood, Business Growth + More.  Get $25 Off An Appointment Of $100 or More at StyleSeat With Code “BossBabe25” FOLLOW bossbabe: @bossbabe.inc Natalie Ellis: @iamnatalie Melody McCloskey: @melody

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0:00.0

Social media is total bullshit.

0:03.1

In my experience, the people that get the most

0:07.4

media written about a magazine or followers on social media

0:11.9

or that have this persona and this following are not the people that are the most

0:19.2

financially successful in business or have the best businesses. You have to have intimacy with your business and it so it is almost like you're in a relationship with it and

0:29.3

100% you're together 15 20 years and you're, I'm pretty intimate with this person and now really I don't have to talk about every single decision, but the big ones, the big ones take a lot of work.

0:40.0

Hello, welcome back to the show. Today I interviewed Melanie McCloskey who is the

0:46.7

CEO of Stile Seat and Stile Seat is as she described it the Airbnb of the

0:51.1

beauty and wellness industry it takes all the extra capacity of beauty and

0:55.1

wellness entrepreneurs and puts it in one place so that you as the customer can find open capacity and book it.

1:01.2

And so we had a fascinating conversation about how she built this business and how she

1:05.4

led it to huge phenomenal success over the last 15 years and really the imposter syndrome and everything

1:12.0

she had to learn along the way to be really in this CEO mindset

1:16.1

and Melody's a mom so we also talked about today her day-to-day routine and how she

1:21.4

approaches the mindset of being in the CEO seat, managing a team.

1:26.4

And we got deep into money and how money doesn't really change your happiness.

1:31.7

We talked about pursuit and mental resilience and how as you're growing a business,

1:37.2

you've really got to balance the desire to continue to grow and want more and more and more

1:42.0

with what's really enough for you in your life and what is truly going to bring you happiness.

1:48.0

And we concluded by talking about stability and building stability into your life so that you have inner peace and you really

1:56.6

look at your business as a place that removes chaos from your life that gives you the sense of calm and the ability to take care of yourself

2:06.8

and your family versus feeling like you're a slave to your business and you constantly have

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