I'm Melissa Griffin and while I was in my 20s, I turned a hobby blog into a multi-million

dollar company. Now, what I've discovered after working with thousands of entrepreneurs is that

the greatest thing standing in the way of success isn't another business tactic or marketing

strategy. It's your own mindset. Now, I believe that you're meant for more than just the status quo.

So on this show, you'll feel like you're sitting down with a friend who's here to help

you transform your fears and roadblocks into a truly limitless version of yourself.

It's time to upgrade your life and business from the inside out.

Let's do this.

So today's episode is kind of the whole ethos, the whole mission of this entire podcast, which is doing business your way instead of feeling like you have to follow the crowd all

the time. And I see this all the time. And I've

seen it in myself too about feeling like if your business is going to be successful,

you've got to follow proven strategies. You've got to do what works. You have to follow what the

most successful people are doing. And just to backtrack back in the day, I thought I had to be like

every other successful business owner in order for my company to succeed. And so what I did was I

started buying dressier clothes. I'm more of the person who loves to wear jeans and sneakers,

but I started wearing like blazers and dress pants.

I have a couple tattoos on my body and I went to three sessions of laser tattoo removal.

So they're now very faded because in my head I thought, well, successful business owners

dress the part. They don't have tattoos. That's what other people do,

not successful business owners. I started using things like a teleprompter whenever I would record

videos because I felt like my actual thoughts weren't good enough. I needed to script everything.

And that was actually a big metaphor for just my whole life at that moment in time was it felt very script everything. And that was actually a big metaphor for just my whole life at that moment

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