In this episode, I interview the business coach and CEO of Uplevel You, Christine Kane. Christine has created a process for growing your business with a balance of strategy and soul (or intuition).

I was excited to record this interview with Christine given that, like me, she was a musician turned entrepreneur. She was a songwriter and performer for 15 years before starting her coaching business. As a musician, she sold over 100,000 copies of her seven CDs and shared the stage with luminaries such as John Mayer, Nanci Griffith, and Shawn Colvin.

Her coaching business, Uplevel You, emerged organically when people started asking how she’d built her successful music career.

She is the author of The Complete Guide to Vision Boards and her most recent book, The Soul-Sourced Entrepreneur: An Unconventional Success Plan for the Highly Creative, Secretly Sensitive, and Wildly Ambitious.

To use her words, The Soul-Sourced Entrepreneur shows you how to have success when your strength is more about sensitivity than swagger and you’re more moved by meaning than manipulation.

In This Episode

• How to balance strategy and soul in your business
• The Kolbe A assessment and why it’s a great tool for hiring and understanding your clients better
• Christine’s framework for making intuitive decisions in your business

Mentioned in This Episode

• Soul Sourced Entrepreneur – Christine’s book
• Kolbe A – the assessment Christine has all of her clients take
• Soul Sourced Business Podcast – Christine’s podcast

 

You know those times when you read a book and it feels like every word was written for you? That’s the feeling I got reading Trust Yourself by Melody Wilding.

Melody’s book is a guide for those of us who are highly ambitious but who sometimes struggle with things like perfectionism, impostor syndrome, emotional triggers, and feeling not good enough. There are many things I love about Melody’s book, but at the top is the fact that it is packed with practical skills based on psychology and neuroscience.

The book is written for the Sensitive Striver (about 20% of the population) but is invaluable for anyone who sometimes gets hampered down by overthinking, emotions, and feeling like they are not enough. She lays out numerous frameworks and skills to help you break free from these things and instead tap into the many strengths that Sensitive Strivers have available to them.

This is one of the most impactful books I have read in the past year. I’m thrilled to have Melody on the show to talk about these groundbreaking ideas.

In This Episode

• How Melody found the signature idea that became her first book
• How to keep overthinking from holding you back
• Why sensitivity is a superpower and how to use it to succeed in your business

Mentioned in This Episode

• Melody Wilding
• Trust Yourself