Learning your authentic way of selling and promoting yourself, your products, your services,

is just such a valuable skill to have no matter what kind of business you have or you want to have in the future.

Welcome to Powerhouse Women, the podcast for women who know they are ready for more.

I'm Lindsay Schwartz, your host and the founder of Powerhouse Women,

and together we'll unlock the confidence and clarity you are looking for

to help you get out of your own way and into action around your next big idea.

We can't really talk about monetizing your big idea in a bigger way unless we also talk about

sales. Now, however you currently feel about sales, I am going to share with you how I went

from actually hating sales, if I'm being completely honest, loathing sales, wanting nothing to do

with being the person selling, to having a complete transformation and feeling so confident, so

authentic, and so excited when I get to offer our community, something that I know is really

going to serve them. So I'm going to share with you some tips for how I learned to sell with that kind of

confidence and have this big transformation. I am telling you, and I'll share a little bit of the

backstory, a big transformation in how I feel around sales and how confident I feel to now being

able to sell without feeling salesy.

And no matter where you currently find yourself, if you have a gift to offer the world, whether or not you're monetizing it, but especially if you want to create an income, doing something

you love, offering your gifts to the world, you will at some level need to learn

to sell. And I really want to empower you in this conversation that sales doesn't have to look one way.

There are ways that you can even outsource some of the sales process. But I actually think that there's so much

value in learning how to sell ourselves, how to promote something effectively, because we're

always in a sales conversation. And those of you who have toddlers know this. You are always in a situation where you're

wanting to influence another person. And I remember hearing this at one point early in my

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