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Plenty with Kate Northrup

Episode 146: 4 Shifts That Took Us from 6 to 7 Figures (They're Not What You Think)

Plenty with Kate Northrup

Kate Northrup

Personalfinance, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Nervoussystemhealing, Education, Womensempowerment, Wellness, Pleasure, Metaphysics, Spirituality, Abundance, Embodiment, Productivity, Timemanagement, Business

4.8697 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

"If I want to make more money, I have to work more." This belief has rung in the ears of entrepreneurs for long enough. I believed if I wanted more success, I needed to work more until I’d been in business for nearly 15 years. You know what finally proved me wrong? Getting pregnant. You may be wondering: What the heck does pregnancy have to do with growing my business? Stay with me. Mike and I had the goal of hitting 7 figures in revenue in one year for years before we hit it. Believe it or not, it was pregnancy knocking my old ways of working (pushing harder and hustling) right out of me, plus a first year of parenthood that was one of the darkest times of my life, and figuring out how to run our business...and be profitable...at the same time that shook the belief that in order to make more money I have to put in more hours out of me. Mike and I finally hit 7 figures when we started working less because we’d become parents and we simply didn’t have the time (or bandwidth) we used to have. How exactly did that work? Well, I’d love to tell you...and we recorded a whole podcast episode for you in order to do just that. This week’s episode of The Kate & Mike Show is the second installment of our August Podcast Listening Adventure designed to help you upgrade your business and your life, and in it we’re sharing: • The 4 shifts we made to finally hit our goal of 7 figures in revenue within one year • Why waiting to learn how to manage your money well until after you’ve started making more money is a terrible idea • The very scary thing we did that helped us grow our business by over $400K in one year • The single most important thing you can do to improve your business or your life (and it has nothing to do with putting in more time) Once you’ve listened, we want to hear from you: Which of the 4 shifts resonated the most with you? How will you put it into action in your own business? You can get your own copy of Do Less and still receive incredible bonuses at http://katenorthrup.com/book! Kate wants to hear from you, and you can post about your #DoLess experiences on Instagram, DM her (@katenorthrup) or email [email protected]! Would you, or a company you know, be a good fit to sponsor The Kate & Mike Show? If so, let’s talk! You can email [email protected] regarding current sponsorship opportunities. Show notes and links for this episode can be found at http://www.katenorthrup.com/podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Kate Northrop.

0:03.3

And I'm Mike Watts.

0:04.5

And we're partners in life, love, and business.

0:07.8

Welcome to the Kate and Mike Show, where we share insights and interviews on entrepreneurship,

0:12.3

relationships, parenting, self-actualization, and making a life not just a living.

0:21.7

Hi, welcome to the Kate and Mike show. This is Kate. This is Mike. So we are here.

0:28.1

This is the other guy, the competent business woman and the other guy. Welcome Pod Squad.

0:33.0

We are here for the second installment of the August podcast listening adventure, where we are

0:40.0

supporting you in upgrading your business and upgrading your life.

0:42.9

And today we're talking about the shifts we made to go from six to seven figures in our

0:51.3

business.

0:51.7

So I just want to say, first of all, seven figures is completely

0:55.6

arbitrary. Six figures is completely arbitrary. It's not about the money, though certainly,

1:01.7

you know, money gives you more choices. It's about expansion, expanding our capacity to do

1:08.9

great work and expanding our impact and growth and progress. And really

1:13.6

happiness comes from the process of growth and progress, not necessarily the result. So that's

1:21.0

what we're talking about today. But we had this milestone of hitting seven figures in our company

1:25.9

as revenue in one year. And it was something we had

1:29.2

wanted to hit for a while because we knew it would require us to step into greater versions of

1:34.1

ourselves as business people. And so we did it a couple years ago. And today, we are sharing about

1:40.2

the shifts that we made that made that possible. And it's not like that we sold more stuff, although certainly that's kind of the subtext.

1:49.4

But, you know, what made that possible for us to touch more lives?

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