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63. Why “Mom Guilt” is Bullsh*t, How to Start + Scale Passive Income Businesses, and Unapologetically Showing Up As Who You Are with Shannan Monson

the bossbabe podcast

Natalie Ellis

Entrepreneurship, Education, Marketing, Self-improvement, Business

4.92.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Are you ready to get inspired and feel empowered? This week’s episode with Natalie Ellis, Founder and CEO of BossBabe, and Shannan Monson, Founder of the ICON method, is full of vulnerability, value, and inspiration to help you get into the right mindset for success.  A serial entrepreneur and mother of two, Shannan shares with Natalie the reality of being a working mom with a business of helping other entrepreneurs start and scale their own programs. Challenging the notions of “Mom Guilt”, Shannan sets the record straight on why mothers need to let go of this unfair and limiting mindset in order to become a living example of strength and light for their children. Natalie and Shannan also take us behind-the-scenes on how to earn 6-figures from Instagram regardless of follower count and provide actionable tips for turning your passion into a scalables passive stream of income.  Whether you’re an unapologetically woman with children or not, this episode will surely inspire strive for your dreams. Join the BossBabe Mailing List: https://bossbabe.com/subscribe/   Get 1 free month on PicMonkey + an exclusive set of templates offered by PicMonkey and BossBabe: https://picmonkey.love/bossbabe  ICON Mastermind Enrollment: https://www.theiconmastermind.com/icon-live ICON Mastermind Free Guide: https://theiconmastermind.com/guide

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0:00.0

eating dirt initially to be able to grow twice three times five times as quickly.

0:12.1

If you believe in your vision you can't fail. grow twice three times five times as quickly.

0:13.0

If you believe in your vision, you can't fail.

0:15.5

The belief that a woman's worth is only tied to how well she mothers

0:19.6

is so sad.

0:21.5

Just really building in me time and deciding what got you here is not what's going to get you there.

0:28.9

Welcome to the Boss Bay Podcast, a place where we share with you the real behind the scenes of building successful

0:33.8

businesses, achieving peak performance, and learning how to balance it all.

0:37.6

This week, I am so excited because we have Shannon Monson on the show.

0:41.7

So Shannon is a serial entrepreneur, business

0:44.3

strategist, a mother of two who helps female founders turn their expertise into

0:48.6

six-figure online programs. Shannon has consulted for Silicon Valley startups spoken to entrepreneurs at Harvard's Women in Business Conference,

0:55.8

and is the founder of the ICON method, the complete playbook to create and scale passive income programs with ease.

1:01.6

Listen, she is the real deal and she really walks the talk.

1:06.0

I got to know Shannon as she was actually a private client of ours in the beginning

1:09.4

and since then we've become great friends and are soon actually gonna be

1:12.3

partnering up together on an event in Atlanta.

1:15.0

So make sure you signed up to the Boss Bib mailing list to be the first to know when that happens.

1:19.0

The link below is in the show notes.

1:21.0

This episode is real, raw and super actionable. Shannon talks about how

1:25.7

mom guilt is bullshit, earning more than her husband and what it looked like in the early days of

1:30.8

building her business because I think sometimes we have the idea

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