You're listening to the Women Inspiring Women Podcast.

Each week, network marketing professional and mom-turned entrepreneur Melanie Mitro gives you her tried and true tips for building a business from your kitchen table.

This self-made millionaire went from a stay-at-home mom to the top of a network marketing business in just three years.

She built an online health and fitness business from the ground up

while raising babies and juggling being a mom and wife. Now she wants to help you become the boss of

your own life. For blog posts, business tips, and more. Check out her website at Melanie Mitro.com.

Now let's get to the show. Here's your host, Melanie Mitro.

I am really excited to be speaking to today about a topic where I'm going to sort of pull out my little soapbox and step up on it for a little bit and talk to you about the reasons why people don't succeed in this business. and I've done sort of a spin-off of this in the past but I really feel like my perspective has

changed a little bit I've been in this business for almost six years and I

signed up to be a customer it was the middle of July six years ago that I actually signed up to become a coach.

So what I'm going to share with you today is some things that I really feel not so much

practical but mindset. There are a lot of things that can hold you back in your business.

You can have all of the skill, all of the knowledge, all of the business mindset you can

have experience and you can still fail at building your own entrepreneurial business

with any network marketing company.

And I'm going to tell you this.

The first thing that people fail with is they fail to have an identified outcome.

And so as I was thinking about preparing, this, started to think to myself, all right, you know, when I was beginning my physical transformation as a customer, I took that before photo of myself, right? I signed up as a customer

with Team Beachbody because I wanted to change. I could not zip my pants. I was still wearing

maternity clothes. Six months after I had Bryce, I felt absolutely disgusting in everything that I wore.

And when I took that before photo, I literally wanted to die.

I could not believe that that was me.

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