Meghan Leahy: Investing $25K as a Business Beginner (GPP20)

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Life coaches abound, but how many do you know who spend several thousand dollars on their education and training? Or who have a weekly paid column in one of the most prestigious newspapers in the country?

Meghan Leahy is a parenting coach (and total spitfire – there are no dull moments during this episode). She’s at a totally relatable stage in her business where everything isn’t perfect, but despite hiccups, Meghan sticks to her guns and her theories to help struggling parents finally get some sanity.

In this episode you’ll hear:

–What made us lose our instincts as parents over various generations (and why Meghan has a job).
–The danger of experts in anything that isn’t a hard science.
–Why Meghan invested $25K in her business when she was just starting out (and why I did pretty much the opposite).
–The exact words Meghan recommends my husband use (listen up, Ernesto!) when he needs me to do something I may not want to do.
–What she’ll do to mitigate her daughter’s reaction to some bad news Meghan will have to deliver.
–Details on Meghan’s packages and why she structures it this way.
–How Meghan grew a Facebook page that actually lands her clients and brings in real money WITHOUT ads.
–The one tool that has blown Meghan away and freed up a ton of time for her assistant to cover even more tasks for her.
–The steps Meghan took to land her weekly Washington Post column, and how that column has impacted her business’s bottom line.
–Why we can never forgot the nastiest things people to say to us (backed by science).

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Thanks for listening! Time to go get yourself paid. :)