You are in charge of managing your own experience in the world! 

It’s so refreshing to know that we can speak up to create a better experience for ourselves. Feeling stressed? Say so! Need more time to do something important for yourself or your kids? Say no to that other demand vying for your attention! Here’s the thing: how we maneuver through business/work can have a direct impact on how we show up in life. 

Business coaching can reveal more of WHO we are outside of our professional careers than we initially thought possible.

On today’s episode of “And She Spoke,” we talk about leadership and shaking things up through business with Devon Brooks. She is an entrepreneur, coach, and the founder of Sphere —”her second venture”— a marketplace platform for personal and professional coaching. We discuss all the ideas she’s built her business around:

• Dematerializing an industry
• Being inherently more inclusive 
• Leadership as a vessel for impact 
• The accessibility and affordability of coaching

Female entrepreneurs are challenged every day —especially if you’re a single parent or struggling to find your own work-life balance.

Once we become better at managing our own experiences, we can discover more of what we need for ourselves.

If you’re ready to do that… you’re in the right place!

Here’s a peek at what else we discuss:

• Running a Brick & Mortar business vs. a Software Platform
• Being catapulted to leadership at 20 years old
• How a pandemic affected moving forward in business
• Benefits of a remote team
• Stress management/sleep
• Single parent responsibilities 

• Devon Brooks on LinkedIn
• Sphere 
• Sphere App
• Blo – Blow Dry Bar

Sign up for a Sphere membership and receive 10% off your first 3 months. Use the coupon code SOULFUL at check out. Please note: This is for new users only and will be capped at 50 redemptions.

This week’s Joy: 

Our joy is Mountain Biking (+ drumming) -- both provide the mental challenge of using and stimulating the brain in different ways.

This week’s Hustle: 

Our hustle is Time-blocking… because fitting everything in at the cost of yourself is a hard no.

Know Your Numbers In our business, we're big fans of financial literacy and accountability. Knowing your numbers is an essential aspect of building a successful business and inherent responsibility for any entrepreneur.

What you focus on grows, so pay attention to your money.

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Each month our transactions are automatically imported into Bench and we get on-demand financial reports. We even enjoy opening up our profit and loss statement to review each month. When tax time comes around, we are up to date and ready to go. And this is what Financial Empowerment feels like.

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