Welcome to the six-figure influencer podcast.

I'm your host, Ellie Reeves, and my purpose is to help women grow their online businesses, influence, and income with ease.

If you're ready to drop the excuses and start showing up as the boss

you know you're meant to be, then you've come to the right place. Let's get started.

Hello, hello. Today's episode is a special one for me because the day this comes out is a year and a day exactly

from when I launched my very first course in STEMBaster, which was the very first thing I offered to my audience in the new phase of my business.

So last year on my birthday, September 15th is when I launched

the course. And it was a really big day for me because up until that moment, I had been growing

my audience and sharing content for free for over nine months, which is insane. So in a way, this is kind of my business's birthday too.

Does that make sense? I don't know. Anyway, in the spirit of birthdays and needing to write content,

I have been doing a lot of reflecting lately because if you listen to last week's episode,

you would know that things are going really well right now

in my business. Thank you, God. But it hasn't always been that way, of course. I would definitely

describe my journey thus far as a slow burn of sorts with lots of pivotal, confusing, and difficult moments.

And plenty of moments that at the time felt like I was going through hell, quite frankly.

But in hindsight, I'm so happy that they happened because I wouldn't have the business I

have now if they didn't.

And I know so many of you listening right now

are in similar seasons I've gone through. Maybe you're just getting started with your business

and you feel like you have a massive mountain to navigate. Or maybe you've plateaued and you have

to figure out how to revive things again.

Maybe you're a few months or years in and you've fallen out of love with your business

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