“Just because you have profit doesn't mean you have great cash flow, and the only way to know if you're in the clear with your cash flow is to be tracking it, seeing it, and following it.” - Shelagh Cummins Your cash flow is the lifeblood of your company. It ensures that your business can meet its day to day operations, and it also is a tool for you to expand and scale. However, what so many entrepreneurs believe to be true, is that your revenue is equal to your cash flow, and that does not work when unexpected expenses pop up, or you need to make a major investment in your business in order ..read more

“If you're going to talk about women stepping into their purpose, you have to do it for yourself as scary as it may be.” -Kena Paranjape If you are facing big challenges in your business, then I’ve got someone who you need to hear from today. My guest Kena Paranjape is the founder of All You Are, an empowerment platform and community for women, who has navigated 20 years of career shifts and challenges, personal loss, and extreme personal transformation. Kena shares deeply about her journey with self-actualization and self-trust. As a young girl, she noticed very quickly that she felt a lack ..read more

“Are we inspiring women or are we selling products? That gave a definition to my brand, and that definition came from my heart.” -Adedoyin Omotara Friends,  I don't need to tell you that the most powerful way to grow your business is when you lead with heart, passion, and purpose. And today, I’m chatting with my guest Adedoyin Omotara to share with you how she has done exactly this, with incredible results. In the middle of moving from Aberdeen, Scotland, to Calgary, Canada, Adedoyin decided it was the perfect time to see whether she truly wanted to start her own beauty brand. After product te ..read more

“Our ‘find a way’ was to find people who would be willing to walk with us as we walked with communities.” -Somia Sadiq If your business is on the brink of rapid growth, friend, this is an episode for you. In today’s episode of The Road To Seven Podcast, I have a great conversation with Somia Sadiq, an entrepreneur who founded and built Narratives Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in territorial planning and impact assessment.  We talk about everything from what your team expects from you as your business grows, to how to find support as the leader of a company that grew incredibly ..read more

“It all starts with that strategic decision that you're ready for your business to be bigger than you.” - Shelagh Cummins When you’re scaling your business, you’re faced with dozens, if not hundreds of new decisions every day. But the most important one is deciding what your “next level” looks like. That’s what today’s episode of The Road To Seven Podcast is all about. When you start to scale, your job shifts from being the doer, to the leader, and I know how difficult this can be. In this episode I talk about how to let go of responsibilities you once had, so that you can transition them to ..read more

“I was and am in a period of growth and evolution. It means I'm looking for all the options that are around me.” - Shelagh Cummins Have you ever just wanted to burn everything to the ground and start fresh? Friends, that is exactly what I did last year, and in this episode of The Road To Seven Podcast I’m going to tell you exactly what starting fresh did for me. I gave myself the time and space to pull back from the edge of burnout, so that I could restructure my business from the inside out. That looked like cancelling programs I had been running for months (and years), resetting my offerin ..read more

“If you're underpricing because you're trying to get more people to buy, you are literally going to get the bargain hunters, and bargain hunters have no loyalty.” - Shelagh Cummins Are you pricing your offers to pay the bills, or for profit? Many of the entrepreneurs that I work with find it incredibly challenging to properly price their offers, and end up making financial decisions for today, that leave money on the table for tomorrow. The reality is, not monitoring and knowing and understanding your numbers is actually impacting the growth of your company. Because you're either overspendin ..read more

“You can have all these issues, these challenges, these moments, this heaviness, but you can only deal with each one, one at a time.” -Liat Horovitz You’ve heard both of my guests on The Road To Seven Podcast before, and they’re back for an amazing roundtable discussion on setting boundaries as a coach - it’s Liat Horovitz and Dr. Nothando Wohlgeschaffen. In this episode, we’re diving deeper into a conversation we had on a panel at Momfest in September of 2022 called Boundaries Are Sexy And Choices are Opportunities. And if you are a business owner of any kind, you will absolutely take away so ..read more

“Makeup does not define you. It's merely a tool of empowerment.” -Missy MacKintosh Makeup has always been the centre of my guest Missy MacKintosh’s life, and from working a Mary Kay franchise with her mom to opening two storefronts with another on the way, it’s easy to see why.  Missy, like many entrepreneurs, zig zagged her way through to entrepreneurship. Beginning as a makeup artist, working her way up through top brand Makeup Forever, and then suddenly finding herself working in the travel industry, when she realized that there must be something more for her life. That’s where MisMacK ..read more

“If I have resistance to this business growing as it wanted to, I was stifling the growth opportunities, not only for my own business, but because of all of these really beautiful relationships we have with our farmers and food producers.” -Sheena Russell If you are building a product-based business, this is an episode you don’t want to miss. I’m interviewing Sheena Russell, the founder of Made with Local, a company on a mission to create delicious, nourishing snacks that connect people with the planet and those who  grow our food. Sheena and I discuss how important it is to develop strat ..read more