#u are probably going to a life coach and not a psychologist or youre going to a psychologist that went to buttfuck college

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she (your therapist) would not say that! (how special and nice you are)

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Hiiiii ur blog is amazing!!!! 💫

I have Scorpio midheaven mars in 5th house with north node in gemini ,Venus in 4th house aspects the 10th house can u explain this placement and career ????

Thx. Hope u have a great day 😃

Scorpio Midheavens can be a great criminal psychologists, detectives, actors, healers, bankers, stockbrokers, and therapists. They like it when there is challenges or mysteries on their works. They excel on careers related to investigations, healing, teaching, forensics etc...

Venus in the 4th is about comfort, having or creating a cozy loving home for yourself and your family. You like decorating your home and making it warm. Mars in the 5th people likes to express theirselves, enjoy sports, great adventurer, risk takers, competitive, probably the first to take initiative when it comes to everything. Education,love, project, etc....

North Node in Gemini individuals needs to see and enjoy the life, they have to go on with their curiosity, be a good communicator, try risks, adventures... life purpose includes teaching, writing, learning, its all about gathering informations, knowledge and using them properly.

Combining your placements, I think you'll do great on teaching, sports coach?, business?or psychologist.

I hope this helps thanks for your patience!⭐❤

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Research Paper: Claiming Your Influential Power

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Research Paper: Claiming Your Influential Power

Research Paper By Isobel Phillips (Leadership Coach, IRELAND)

Maureen Simon is an acclaimed consultant, teacher, and speaker with 25 years of experience in international business consulting and community development, including serving to mediate political conflict in Northern Ireland and Eastern Europe.

Maureen is the author of Awakening the Essential Feminine: Claiming Your Influential Power and has worked with tens of thousands of women worldwide. She bases her work on the strong belief that our world cultures now need, more than ever before, for women to step into their rightful power and leadership roles, and that that advanced skill development in the areas of communication, confidence building, and leadership and career development are all essential for women in business to fully contribute. Maureen is also a friend and colleague and kindly agreed to spend some time with me discussing coaching and women’s empowerment.

I began by asking Maureen about her history with coaching, and with coaching women in particular. Maureen explained:

My history with coaching began in London in 1997, when coaching came to London.  I was asked by Coach U to be a part of the launch there because Tom Leonard, the head of the school at the time, was there and he was getting massive spreads in the Times, to get the idea that there might be another way to go about personal transformation other than the psychiatrist’s or the psychologist’s chair.  And that was really important back then because, as you know, England can have a conservative nature.  So, opening up and revealing a lot of really deep personal things would work for some, but not for everyone.

There were about five of us, and we were the first trained in Europe as coaches, and we discussed the idea of creating more publicity, more interest, so my whole mission was to get the word out.  Vogue, and Red magazine, and all these places were like, what is this?  Of course, you know, it’s a very different, nice medium that doesn’t really make us have to go back into the deep dark, nor does it make us reveal everything about ourselves, to move forward.  The idea of coaching was a clear pathway to discovery.  And on that clear pathway to discovery, people could give as much as they wished, as you can in therapy, as well, but it’s an easier way to come to self-knowledge and knowing thyself, as Socrates said than the expectation that we need to bare some of our soul.

Sothen as this whole thing launched it just took off like wildfire, because the concept was so innovative, in 1997. I was going all North-South and East and West for interviews, TV, and radio, and it just ended up becoming something that people just wanted to know more about.  It was the perfect fit for the culture.  So, then, of course, Ireland is next door and Europe.  And people looked to London for innovation and it just went through the whole area and, as you know, continues to do so.  So that was the early time of my involvement.  And there were five people, and I know them and have great respect for them.  We bought businesses and practices, and, to this day, I do some coaching and a lot of consulting.  It’s always been a part of my tapestry and my fabric, really.  It’s core to my being.  I learned a lot in the process of setting it up and becoming a coach, and I learned a tremendous amount about myself.

I shared that one of the things I love about coaching is that you don’t need to reveal everything about your past to move forward, and Maureen picked up this point:

We want to encourage the people that we work with to integrate more of who we are because we’re whole.  We need to integrate the past, the present, and where we want to go — that’s the whole being.  We aren’t standing there saying, “Now, I need to know this to move forward”.  The difference between coaching and therapy is that we’re really integrating as much as we can from the past but we’re also building on what we have in front of us.

I next asked Maureen about the benefits that coaching can offer women in particular.

I am such a women’s advocate that I would almost have to say that I think it benefits everyone so much that that’s an area that I haven’t particularly pigeon-holed women.  I’m strongly an advocate of certain attributes and brain differences, and a lot of my work stems from the differences between the male and female brain, and that’s a controversial area, today, in science.  But I do still think that women are relational, and have the ability to connect intuitively, and through the connection with another, we have the ability to create something quite magical, perhaps even immeasurable.  And that’s where the coaching relationship, being so personal and one-on-one, is a high advantage.

I don’t want to separate people too much, but the question does ask me to do so, and if I’m going to go in that direction, I’d say that a lot of decisions have in the past been made by men on the golf course, and while golf clubs are not so much exclusive to that, anymore, the tradition still does live on.  We have to be honest about that.  So, women, instead of having that environment, can take that personal dialogue of questioning and introspection, and they do very well in gathering themselves in particular, in more intimate environments, in my opinion after working with hundreds of women.

I’m watching our current state of affairs and seeing that because we’re working online because we’re so focused on the absolute distant connections instead of the intimate connections, women are going to suffer a little from that.  That’s one of the areas that I really want to focus on now, looking at how can we create these environments, these mentorships, these dialogues, particularly online so that women can have that intimate connection because we thrive there.  Coaching, and the work that we’re both doing, can actually still greatly benefit women. Online isn’t best, but if we have to work online, we will.  Keep women talking.  Keep women connected.  Keep mentoring programs going online.  Keep things happening.  They don’t have a golf course.  They won’t have the golf course, but they still need that intimate environment to make up for a lost time, to move forward, and to be able to be much more of who they are, in their work environment, on or off-line.

In her book, Awakening the Essential Feminine: Claiming Your Influential Power, Maureen talks about the intrinsic powers that women hold. She explained more:

I’ve been reconnecting with the book recently because I basically launched it and it sold around the world, and I’ll give you a sample and speak to them.

Relationships.  Women collaborate at a very high level.  We can hear each other and move forward through support.  It’s a very, very positive way for women to connect.  They have inter-connectedness, the ability to connect deeply, and value communication, care, compassion, and empathy.  A woman who inspired me to think about that is Helen Fisher, who wrote “The First Sex”.  She’s a Rutgers professor and has done tremendous amounts around the world about the relationship and the attraction principle.

She gave an example that some of this was formed back in the day, when we would be together, say, by a lake, and your children and my children were there, and I would be watching all the children. I would be taking in the whole environment as I really mothered because it takes a community to raise a child.  Anthropologists have studied the way the female brain is more developed between the right and left hemispheres, with a 14% thicker tissue connecting both hemispheres.  Helen Fisher discusses that whole area, as an anthropologist, looking at what really created that area connectivity, and it comes from that environment. These are natural attributes from the feminine, within the female, that relate to the female.  There’s plenty of others. I’m just really getting exciting going back into this with you.

And language.  The language that we speak is often connected and cooperative.  So, if I were talking to you, I might ask, “Can I get an idea of what you need right now?’ And you’d be, “Well, yeah, you know, I didn’t sleep.  Or the baby was…”  There’s connectivity that’s natural within the feminine.  Now, we have to go back if we’re going to talk about the book and make sure that we clearly say that both men and women hold the masculine and the feminine, it’s not just one.  So, the idea is that it’s in both, it’s in all of us. But sometimes we’ll have a dominant set of attributes.  Feminine attributes that will guide us sometimes need more masculine.  These are the really pure ones that I think are so powerful.  The way we think is often known to be more mentally flexible because of the cortex tissue formation. Women think more flexibly and use a lot of verbal agility and big descriptions.

There are two reasons, really.  It’s socialization and it’s brain biology.  Probably one of my favorite traits is that we work with power from a place of contribution and connectivity.  In the book, I talk about “power with” as opposed to “power over”, and that’s because we care for the whole and we’re focused on community.  I look at NGOs and say, “Why are there so many women leading NGOs?”  Even if it was massive amounts of money to lead an NGO, which it isn’t, you have to care for the community.  These things are linked in our cultures, and that’s just a handful of them. There are 26 attributes in “Awakening the Essential Feminine – Claiming Your Influential Power”, in nine areas of life.  It’s something I just kept seeing and did a lot of research to make points to hold that and then wrote the book.

Maureen has been revisiting her book, in light of current views on sex and gender. I asked how she has found that process:

You know, I’ve had a journey on that, and it tested me.  Consulting in corporations, you really do need to be very open on the playing field, and very, very empathetic about where everyone is in their lives, and what their experiences are, particularly when working with leaders.  I’ve learned that for some people, considering brain difference isn’t comfortable.  I had to go back into my research and look at it and go back and read the research on the male and female brain, like Brizendine’s work from San Francisco. And I brought myself back to see that I do really, truly, stand by the book and the brain differences.  One thing I’m not here to do is create a difference, but I’m here to create unity.

It’s just part of who I am. The three top values that inform my work are equity, truth, and unity.  If I’m focusing on someone it’s often around the depth of connection to get to know them, to understand them, or to guide them.  But when it comes down to the book, I still believe that the brain is different.  And I’ve come back now, after a summer of really looking at it, and going into other books, texts, and I think there’s a place in the world for us to be united, but to still hold different opinions.  Rather than changing the book, what I am deciding to do is to see these attributes as whatever you want to call them, or whatever you see them as.  They basically will be the universal principles of good living that need to be carried out.  You can file them, however, but how can we get to them?  Some of the courses I’ll be offering will be for women, getting them to own that.

And the reason I still do that work, although I thought I’d be done with it by now, is because I think women still don’t own the natural power that they have been predisposed to and born with.  To answer your question about the book, I would say that there are many theories, and I hold this one. I’m universalizing a little bit more by bringing in men and women, and bringing them to the attributes, and saying, “You have masculine and feminine.  What attributes would you like to build on?”

I observed that Maureen spoke about empowering women and helping them to own their powers, and asked how we go about that:

If you need to make a change, the first thing you need to do is understand a couple of things.  What is that change?  Is the pain for you making that change better, or more comfortable than the gain that you will have when you make the change?  And specifically, what will that affect your life? As we frame change, the most important thing is to get us to understand where we are within the spectrum of change, and then to move towards specific steps.

The first part is to understand, from the core of the being, where the change needs to be.  If they say, “I want to be powerful,” Power comes from a source of knowing ourselves, what we value, and who we are.  The second thing to evaluate is, are you motivated to make this change?  And then the third thing is getting them to even envision, ahead of time, what it would be like to be this clearly defined vision of a woman holding power.  And what would be the benefit to them?  It gets into some cognitive work.  It gets into some very clear workaround choices and values.  It moves into pain versus gain.  It may not always be a pain, but is there a reason?  And then envision that outcome so that we can begin to see it, and then we make it real in the world.  So, it’s a process of knowing myself, first, and committing to change, crystallizing the vision, and moving out in the world with the vision.  Those are the four steps that I would generally bring someone through.

We joke a little about how straightforward it sounds when life is not so straightforward. However, it does summarize the coaching process of self-discovery but to move forward to where you need to be. Maureen observes that it’s also designed by ourselves as we bring people through, as support, and then they infiltrate their part into what becomes a unified process. 

Maureen works a lot with women in corporate roles and works to promote equality and equity in the workplace. I ask what she feels are some of the main issues facing women in the workplace today?

Right now, the biggest issue that I’m seeing on calls, with women, and reading is the inability to be relational in the work environment.  It’s not like we haven’t been online.  We’ve been online.  But there’s something about minimal contact that’s coming up a lot on the calls. In their teams, women can do quite a lot.  Like here, in this environment, maybe there’d be two others with us on a call, and there’s an intimacy of sorts.  But when it comes to now moving from our team to understanding the whole organization, the water cooler talk, the dynamic connection, the intuition that women use when they’re present with someone, their career paths are hindered.  They don’t have that whole dynamic picture.  So, I’m seeing that’s a key issue, which is a concern that I’m working on in as many ways as I can.

The other thing is that people say that the glass ceiling is of the past.  And I work often in finance, where I’m seeing significant holdback on women from actually achieving equal positions at the top of organizations, even higher when we look at the executive pool. Women right at this moment need to hold their vision for their career path and continue to work towards it.  A couple of clients I have are putting in their marketing at high levels and they’re doing more training on digital marketing.  But I’m also working with them to find their own ways, strategically, in their organization, as if we were in person.  The main thing is, don’t give up on the vision that you have for your career.

Secondly, it can be challenging, but it’s really important to decide the place that your work fits into your life at a given time and to not beat yourself up if this is a phase where something different is required.  Time will pass and things will happen.  A lot of women feel like they’re slipping back, so, where I’m working with them is, OK.  If you’re going part-time now because it’s become a different environment.  And let’s face it, a lot of obligations for children, childcare and children’s care and education, is falling on the mother.  So, my thought is, let’s just see this as a temporary sort of pause, but don’t give up on where you’re going and keep making entrees.  Build those networks and know that this too will pass.  Kids will get old enough and they’ll have their own lives.

And then the third thing I work with women on is often to get a tandem track.  And they don’t see themselves clearly enough to know that they can move specifically towards something by design, right now, that will be a part of their future.  We have to be future thinking.  This is the third point.  I think we take on, “Oh my God.  The children are on my lap and I’m on a meeting”. Ah! And so that’s what freezes us.  But it’s not only the women with children.  It’s the women without children. They’re going in the other direction, often, of when they’re working at home that “I’m isolated and the whole world is out here, but I’m over here”.  So, we have all kinds of stories in our lives.  The most important thing to know is that we’re basically here to make a difference, to contribute, to create something bigger than ourselves. In my opinion, with my work, the third track is to work a tandem track and to look to future growth, to procreate.  This is my now and then, here’s where I’m going.  And be clear enough to take daily steps towards that so that you actually are moving specifically towards something.  Otherwise, it will all become a big bundle, you know, yarn that’s tied up in a big knot.

Finally, I invite Maureen to share what gives her hope right now.

I think humans are amazing and I think there are all kinds of humans, and in the heart of each human, there is an amazing spark.  And potentiality is really interesting.  I think we’re in a very disruptive time, on the planet.  There are disruptors in different aspects of our lives, which I think is a good thing, and I think we need it.  I think we can get complacent and fall asleep. I think we need a shake-up to say, what do we value?  What are our lives about? Why am I here?  That’s the crux of the work I do.  Why am I here?  It’s not just to feed the corporations, or whoever.  It’s to really be somebody bigger than myself in those environments.   And I get excited about the potential side because I spend a lot of time working with people to have them understand the bigger picture of their lives.  I believe that we are here for a reason.

One of the many teachers who have been guiding me to that, from many years back, John O’Donohue, a famous Irish poet and writer, put a whole lot of time of his life in teaching us that we’re here for something bigger than ourselves and that it may not be a religious experience but it’s absolutely something that we know we’re here for.  It’s about the meaning.  So, I put a lot of time into that.  I also love nature.  Being here in Ireland is just really and truly phenomenal.  And I love to be connected with art, and music, and dance and movement.  There are so many things that can feed us, no matter how our mood is.  We will always be able to find some upliftment.  And I’m also very big on that.  I have days where I question things and say, “You always loved those four or five things.  But what is it that you’re not seeing about the world?”. because sometimes I do feel as though I have such great hopes that I need to make sure I am empathetically feeling what others are feeling.  We all have those moments, but I feel like I see the greater good and I see that we’re on a good trajectory and a lot is going to get shaken up on this planet as it is.  And I think it’s going to end up landing in a good place, and that gives me hope.

I’m so very grateful to Maureen for sharing her time and thoughts with me. Maureen can be found online at www.maureensimon.com and www.empoweredwomenconsulting.com.

Reference

Simon, M. (2011) Awakening the Essential Feminine: Claiming Your Influential Power. Essential Feminine Publishing

Original source: https://coachcampus.com/coach-portfolios/research-papers/isobel-phillips-interview-with-maureen-simon/

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EOFire’s December 2016 Income Report

December 2016 Income At-A-Glance

Gross Income for November: $216,474

Total Expenses for November: $71,376

Total Net Profit for November: $145,098

Difference b/t December & November: +$1,228

Why We Publish An Income Report

This monthly income report is created for you, Fire Nation!

By documenting the struggles we encounter and the successes we celebrate as entrepreneurs every single month, we’re able to provide you with support – and a single resource – where we share what’s working, what’s not, and what’s possible.

There’s a lot of hard work that goes into learning and growing as an entrepreneur, especially when you’re just starting out. The most important part of the equation is that you’re able to pass on what you learn to others through teaching, which is what we aim to do here at EOFire.

Let’s IGNITE!

CPA On Fire’s Monthly Tax Tip

What’s up Fire Nation, my name is Josh Bauerle. I’m a CPA and the Founder of CPA On Fire, where we specialize in working with entrepreneurs to minimize their tax liability while keeping them in line with the ever-changing tax laws.

I’ve been working with EOFire for years now, and John and Kate have included me in these monthly income reports with unlimited access to all their accounts so I can verify that what they report here is complete and accurate.

And because they believe in delivering an insane amount of value to you, my job doesn’t stop at the verification level; I’ll also be providing tax and accounting tips to you along the way!

Josh’s December Tax Tip: What it Means to be An Employer

According to psychologists, the three biggest fears for humans are:

public speaking,

death, and

hiring their first employee.

Okay, okay, fine – I made the last one up ;)

But for entrepreneurs and small business owners, it’s probably not far from the truth. Bringing on an employee for the first time comes with the fear of increased costs, extra taxes and paperwork, and making sure you have the cash flow to keep your new employee paid and happy.

Note: this tax tip is geared specifically towards hiring an employee – not bringing on a contractor or virtual team member. Want to learn more about the differences? Check out our October 2014 Income Report where I review employees vs. contractors and virtual assistants.

I want to share this tax tip because you should absolutely know what you’re getting yourself into and make sure your business is ready for that jump, because the truth is, bringing employees into your business can be a great thing.

So to make sure you’re prepared, here are three keys to surviving your new life as an employer.

3 Keys to Surviving as a New Employer

1. Hire an Amazing Payroll Company

Is it possible to handle your own payroll?

In theory, sure, and I’ve had clients try to do just that. And every single time, without fail, they switch to a payroll company within a few months of starting.

Why?

Payroll taxes are really, really confusing.

There’s employer taxes, employee taxes, withholding taxes, unemployment taxes and potentially state and local taxes on top of all that.

That’s not to mention things like state and federal laws to monitor, wage garnishments, and other hiccups that can make life miserable while running your own payroll.

Oh, and did I mention that some of these taxes will be filed monthly, some will be filed quarterly, and some will be filed annually?

Is your head spinning yet?

GOOD. I’m trying to make sure you never attempt to do this yourself!

Hiring a great payroll company will take all of this responsibility out of your hands. You will essentially tell them who gets paid what and when, and they will take care of the rest.

Don’t try and do this yourself; hire the experts!

When it comes to payroll companies, there’s no one we recommend more than Gusto. They’re affordable AND they’ll make your payroll life infinitely easier!

2. Know Ahead of Time Your Costs Will Go Up

If you are used to paying contractors, switching some or all of them to employees will increase your costs.

Now, instead of just paying their wages, you have to add in employer social security and medicare taxes (about 7.6% of their pay), unemployment taxes (probably a few hundred dollars per quarter), and workers comp insurance.

Most of these costs will be tax deductible, which takes the small bite out of them, but a safe estimate is that making someone an employee over a contractor will increase your costs by about 10% of their annual pay.

Plan accordingly.

3. Have an Understanding of Your State and Federal Employment Laws

I know, I know, I told you in tip #1 that this was the reason you should hire an expert – and I stand by that. But you still have to have a decent understanding of the laws involved with being an employer.

First of all, the government will ultimately hold you responsible for any mistakes made in this area, even if you have a payroll company. So you need to know what’s going on and make sure nothing is being missed.

My best recommendation here is to talk with a CPA and an attorney you trust before bringing on your first employee.

Find out if there are any laws you need to be aware of, if there are any contracts you need to have signed, and if there are any other do’s or don’ts both you and your payroll company need to be following.

A great resource if you live, work and will be hiring employees in the United States is SHRM.

Adding your first employee can be a great move for your business, but you need to make sure you’re doing things properly.

Follow these three tips and you will make this often scary process much easier to handle!

If you have a question you would like to see covered in a future income report, leave it in the comments section below, or reach out to me directly!

As always, please feel free to contact me if you’d like to discuss what would be best for YOUR business. I LOVE chatting with Fire Nation!

*Bonus* If you haven’t checked out Josh’s FREE course on business entities yet, you can get it here!

Kahuna’s Accounting Tip

Frank Lunn is Founder and CEO of Kahuna Accounting, a virtual entrepreneur accounting team assisting Entrepreneurial Victory Achievers to achieve their victory!

Frank’s December Accounting Tip: Learning to SURF Success in 2017

There are lots of buzzwords attributed to entrepreneurship, but if I had to choose only two I would pick Intentional and Adaptable.

‘Intentional’ is being specific; focused to know exactly what you want, why you want it, and what you need to do to achieve it.

Intentional is an aiming mechanism for where you want to go.

‘Adaptable’ is a response mechanism. Once started, you make adjustments based on new information or results. No one goes from their departure point to their intended destination without making changes based feedback received along the way.

Adaptability allows you to accept feedback and correct course.

At Kahuna Accounting, we use a surfing metaphor as a strategy tool to adapt and respond to entrepreneurial waves.

We can’t control waves in our life, but we can respond utilizing the S.U.R.F Strategy™ to adapt and make the best of the waves we are given.

S.U.R.F.

Survey

Understand

Respond

Focus

Accounting for entrepreneurs is accounting for success utilizing your numbers to keep score and provide feedback. You can apply the SURF Strategy to assist you in achieving your goals.

Survey your financials.

Understand how you did in relation to how you wanted to do within a time period.

Respond and adapt as necessary.

Focus on what you intentionally set out to achieve.

SURF as an entrepreneur success strategy is simple and yet complex: you have to put it to action in order to reap the benefits, and lucky for us, it’s a skill you can apply in every area of your business and life.

Happy SURFing in 2017!

Learn more about Kahuna Accounting!

What Went Down In December

The Mastery Journal Arrives!

December was a month filled with celebrations of all kinds.

1. We celebrated John’s 37th birthday! 2. The night before, the very first complete hard copy of The Mastery Journal arrived 3. The holidays!

Receiving the first hard copy of The Mastery Journal was definitely a treat – and a huge relief.

Allow me to explain…

The timeline we’re on for a January 23rd launch on Kickstarter required that A LOT of things happen at very specific times. Because of all the dependencies, missing a deadline could drastically hurt that timeline.

That said, the timeline from when we submitted final files to the printer and when The Mastery Journal actually went to print was super tight, and so while it would have been nice to have full hardcopies sent to us for in-depth review, we didn’t do that.

Needless to say, having the hardcopies arrive and holding them in our hands, thumbing through them, seeing the binding and the print – we were very grateful they turned out amazing!

The Freedom Journal on Amazon

Since hiring our most recent new team member here in Puerto Rico, Ian, we’ve been able to make some big moves on Amazon as it relates to our Freedom Journal sales.

When Ian came on board The Freedom Journal on Amazon was the first project he took on, which included:

Keyword research

Coaching w/ a listing expert

A lot of testing

While the holidays certainly have played a role in our increased sales over the past couple of months, we’re confident we wouldn’t be where we are right now without Ian’s contributions!

We looked forward to continuing to track trends with our listing and sharing them with you right here in our monthly income reports ;)

Holiday Fun

Towards the middle of December we started to experience first-hand just how a big a deal the holidays are in Puerto Rico.

From an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party to a Golf Cart Light Parade to music and cheer in the Plaza, Palmas Del Mar was like one big holiday festivity super center!

After attending every event possible in Palmas, we each headed our own way: home to spend Christmas and New Years with family and friends.

San Diego was beautiful as ever…

While Maine flirted with zero degrees nearly every day!

I got to experience the best of both worlds, and John finally got in a 3-day Sugarloaf trip in after having leaned his skis for over 3 years.

No matter where you spent the holidays, we hope you were snuggled up with family, friends and loved ones.

Happy New Year, Fire Nation!

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December 2016 Income Breakdown*

Product/Service Income: $140,929

The Freedom Journal: Accomplish your #1 goal in 100 days!

Shopify: $20,941 (420 Freedom Journals & 91 Digital Packs sold!)

Amazon: $28,425 (737 Freedom Journals sold!)

Total: $49,366

Podcasters’ Paradise: The #1 Podcasting community in the world!

Recurring: $15,490 (7 annual, 198 monthly)

New members: $10,125 (47 new members)

Total: $25,615

Podcast Sponsorship Income: $59,250

Podcast Websites: $5,000 Your all-in-one podcast website peace of mind

Free Podcast Course: A free 15-day course on Podcasting

Free Webinar Course: A free 10-day course on Webinars

Free Goals Course: A free 8-day course on Setting & Accomplishing Goals

Funnel On Fire: A free 8-day course on Creating a Funnel that Converts!

WebinarOnFire: $1,319 Learn how to Create & Present Webinars that Convert!

SkillsOnFire: $164

Podcast Launch: Audiobook: $180 | eBook: $35

Affiliate Income: $75,545

*Affiliate links below

Resources for Entrepreneurs: $25,660

Audible: $161

BlueHost: $1,650 (Step-by-step guide and 23 WordPress tutorials)

Click Funnels: $20,140

Coaching referrals: $2,527 (email me for an introduction to a mentor for overall online business or a Podcast focused mentor!)

ConvertKit: $102

Disclaimer Template: $148 (legal disclaimers for your website)

Fizzle: $569

LeadPages: $363

Courses for Entrepreneurs: $46,431

Ryan Levesque’s ASK: $2,543

DSG’s Create Awesome Online Courses: $15,105

Ramit Sethi: $19,193

Self-Publishing School: $498

Nick Stephenson’s First 10k Readers: $354

Michael Hyatt’s Best Year Ever: $7,574

Rick Mulready’s FB ADvantage: $97

Bryan Harris’ 10k Subscribers: $790

Josh Turner’s LinkedIn Academy: $277

Resources for Podcasters: $1,255

Libsyn: $700 (promo code Fire)

Pat Flynn’s Smart Podcast Player: $106

UDemy Podcasting Course: $29

Podcasting Press: $420

Other Resources: $2,199

Amazon Associates: $863

Other: $1,336

Total Gross Income in December: $216,474

Business Expenses: $68,307

Advertising: $4,497

Affiliate Commissions (Paradise): $1,096

Accounting: $350

Cost of goods sold: $6,403

Design & Branding: $1,980

Education: $59

Legal & Professional: $367

Meals & Entertainment: $704

Merchant / bank fees: $2,427

Amazon fees: $7,033

Shopify fees: $361

Stripe fees: $26

PayPal fees: $350

Office expenses: $728

Payroll Taxe Expenses: $1,407

Promotional / events: $318

Paradise Refunds: $2,889

WebinarOnFire Refunds: $1,319 (invoice total)

Shipwire: $6,000

Sponsorships: $10,956

Show notes: $408

Total Launch Package Fees: $175

Travel: $1,015

The Freedom Journal: $9,009

Virtual Assistant Fees: $5,570

Website Fees: $2,860

Recurring, Subscription-based Expenses: $3,069

Adobe Creative Cloud: $100

Avangate: $470

Boomerang: $80 (team package)

Brandisty: $24

Authorize.net: $91.10

Cell Phone: $258

CCBill: $20

Dropbox: $99 (annual subscription)

Google Storage: $9.99

Go2MyPC: $12

Internet: $332

eVoice: $9.95

Infusionsoft CRM: $359

Insurance: $551

Libsyn: $323

Chatroll: $49

PureChat: $20

ScheduleOnce: $9

Skype: $2.99

Shopify: $20

Scout: $10

TaxJar: $19

Workflowy: $4.99

MeetEdgar: $49

Wistia: $25

WPCurve: $29

Zapier: $15

Taxes & Licenses: $77

Total Expenses in December: $71,376

Payroll to John, Kate & PR Team: $18,395

In our May 2014 Income Report and our June 2016 Income Report, Josh focuses on how to pay yourself as an entrepreneur. Check them out!

Total Net Profit for December 2016: $145,098

Biggest Lesson Learned

Goals and 3 Words

Inspired by Chris Brogan, I started my own tradition of choosing 3 words based on my goals for the New Year to help represent my vision and guide me towards success. If you’ve never done this before, I highly recommend it.

Having my 3 words last year, which were Systems, Leverage, and Strength, not only helped me get back on track when I was feeling a little ‘out of the lines’, but they also helped encourage and motivate me.

This year, my 3 words are Breathe, Commit, and Share.

While my goals remain somewhat consistent with those I had in 2016, my words seem completely different.

Turns out, they actually aren’t all that different in meaning.

If you haven’t set your goals for the New Year, and if you’re feeling like having 3 words to help guide you throughout the year might be helpful, then I encourage you to take 30 minutes today to sit down, reflect, and write it down.

Alright Fire Nation, that’s a wrap!

Until next month, keep your FIRE burning!

~ Kate & John

Note: we report our income figures as accurately as possible, but in using reports from a combo of Infusionsoft & Xero to track our product and total income / expenses, they suggest the possibility of a 3 – 5% margin of error. 

Click here for all of EOFire’s Income Reports

This post was written by Kate Erickson, Content Creator and Implementer at EOFire. Follow Kate on Social:

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EOFire’s December 2016 Income Report

December 2016 Income At-A-Glance

Gross Income for November: $216,474

Total Expenses for November: $71,376

Total Net Profit for November: $145,098

Difference b/t December & November: +$1,228

Why We Publish An Income Report

This monthly income report is created for you, Fire Nation!

By documenting the struggles we encounter and the successes we celebrate as entrepreneurs every single month, we’re able to provide you with support – and a single resource – where we share what’s working, what’s not, and what’s possible.

There’s a lot of hard work that goes into learning and growing as an entrepreneur, especially when you’re just starting out. The most important part of the equation is that you’re able to pass on what you learn to others through teaching, which is what we aim to do here at EOFire.

Let’s IGNITE!

CPA On Fire’s Monthly Tax Tip

What’s up Fire Nation, my name is Josh Bauerle. I’m a CPA and the Founder of CPA On Fire, where we specialize in working with entrepreneurs to minimize their tax liability while keeping them in line with the ever-changing tax laws.

I’ve been working with EOFire for years now, and John and Kate have included me in these monthly income reports with unlimited access to all their accounts so I can verify that what they report here is complete and accurate.

And because they believe in delivering an insane amount of value to you, my job doesn’t stop at the verification level; I’ll also be providing tax and accounting tips to you along the way!

Josh’s December Tax Tip: What it Means to be An Employer

According to psychologists, the three biggest fears for humans are:

public speaking,

death, and

hiring their first employee.

Okay, okay, fine – I made the last one up ;)

But for entrepreneurs and small business owners, it’s probably not far from the truth. Bringing on an employee for the first time comes with the fear of increased costs, extra taxes and paperwork, and making sure you have the cash flow to keep your new employee paid and happy.

Note: this tax tip is geared specifically towards hiring an employee – not bringing on a contractor or virtual team member. Want to learn more about the differences? Check out our October 2014 Income Report where I review employees vs. contractors and virtual assistants.

I want to share this tax tip because you should absolutely know what you’re getting yourself into and make sure your business is ready for that jump, because the truth is, bringing employees into your business can be a great thing.

So to make sure you’re prepared, here are three keys to surviving your new life as an employer.

3 Keys to Surviving as a New Employer

1. Hire an Amazing Payroll Company

Is it possible to handle your own payroll?

In theory, sure, and I’ve had clients try to do just that. And every single time, without fail, they switch to a payroll company within a few months of starting.

Why?

Payroll taxes are really, really confusing.

There’s employer taxes, employee taxes, withholding taxes, unemployment taxes and potentially state and local taxes on top of all that.

That’s not to mention things like state and federal laws to monitor, wage garnishments, and other hiccups that can make life miserable while running your own payroll.

Oh, and did I mention that some of these taxes will be filed monthly, some will be filed quarterly, and some will be filed annually?

Is your head spinning yet?

GOOD. I’m trying to make sure you never attempt to do this yourself!

Hiring a great payroll company will take all of this responsibility out of your hands. You will essentially tell them who gets paid what and when, and they will take care of the rest.

Don’t try and do this yourself; hire the experts!

When it comes to payroll companies, there’s no one we recommend more than Gusto. They’re affordable AND they’ll make your payroll life infinitely easier!

2. Know Ahead of Time Your Costs Will Go Up

If you are used to paying contractors, switching some or all of them to employees will increase your costs.

Now, instead of just paying their wages, you have to add in employer social security and medicare taxes (about 7.6% of their pay), unemployment taxes (probably a few hundred dollars per quarter), and workers comp insurance.

Most of these costs will be tax deductible, which takes the small bite out of them, but a safe estimate is that making someone an employee over a contractor will increase your costs by about 10% of their annual pay.

Plan accordingly.

3. Have an Understanding of Your State and Federal Employment Laws

I know, I know, I told you in tip #1 that this was the reason you should hire an expert – and I stand by that. But you still have to have a decent understanding of the laws involved with being an employer.

First of all, the government will ultimately hold you responsible for any mistakes made in this area, even if you have a payroll company. So you need to know what’s going on and make sure nothing is being missed.

My best recommendation here is to talk with a CPA and an attorney you trust before bringing on your first employee.

Find out if there are any laws you need to be aware of, if there are any contracts you need to have signed, and if there are any other do’s or don’ts both you and your payroll company need to be following.

A great resource if you live, work and will be hiring employees in the United States is SHRM.

Adding your first employee can be a great move for your business, but you need to make sure you’re doing things properly.

Follow these three tips and you will make this often scary process much easier to handle!

If you have a question you would like to see covered in a future income report, leave it in the comments section below, or reach out to me directly!

As always, please feel free to contact me if you’d like to discuss what would be best for YOUR business. I LOVE chatting with Fire Nation!

*Bonus* If you haven’t checked out Josh’s FREE course on business entities yet, you can get it here!

Kahuna’s Accounting Tip

Frank Lunn is Founder and CEO of Kahuna Accounting, a virtual entrepreneur accounting team assisting Entrepreneurial Victory Achievers to achieve their victory!

Frank’s December Accounting Tip: Learning to SURF Success in 2017

There are lots of buzzwords attributed to entrepreneurship, but if I had to choose only two I would pick Intentional and Adaptable.

‘Intentional’ is being specific; focused to know exactly what you want, why you want it, and what you need to do to achieve it.

Intentional is an aiming mechanism for where you want to go.

‘Adaptable’ is a response mechanism. Once started, you make adjustments based on new information or results. No one goes from their departure point to their intended destination without making changes based feedback received along the way.

Adaptability allows you to accept feedback and correct course.

At Kahuna Accounting, we use a surfing metaphor as a strategy tool to adapt and respond to entrepreneurial waves.

We can’t control waves in our life, but we can respond utilizing the S.U.R.F Strategy™ to adapt and make the best of the waves we are given.

S.U.R.F.

Survey

Understand

Respond

Focus

Accounting for entrepreneurs is accounting for success utilizing your numbers to keep score and provide feedback. You can apply the SURF Strategy to assist you in achieving your goals.

Survey your financials.

Understand how you did in relation to how you wanted to do within a time period.

Respond and adapt as necessary.

Focus on what you intentionally set out to achieve.

SURF as an entrepreneur success strategy is simple and yet complex: you have to put it to action in order to reap the benefits, and lucky for us, it’s a skill you can apply in every area of your business and life.

Happy SURFing in 2017!

Learn more about Kahuna Accounting!

What Went Down In December

The Mastery Journal Arrives!

December was a month filled with celebrations of all kinds.

1. We celebrated John’s 37th birthday! 2. The night before, the very first complete hard copy of The Mastery Journal arrived 3. The holidays!

Receiving the first hard copy of The Mastery Journal was definitely a treat – and a huge relief.

Allow me to explain…

The timeline we’re on for a January 23rd launch on Kickstarter required that A LOT of things happen at very specific times. Because of all the dependencies, missing a deadline could drastically hurt that timeline.

That said, the timeline from when we submitted final files to the printer and when The Mastery Journal actually went to print was super tight, and so while it would have been nice to have full hardcopies sent to us for in-depth review, we didn’t do that.

Needless to say, having the hardcopies arrive and holding them in our hands, thumbing through them, seeing the binding and the print – we were very grateful they turned out amazing!

The Freedom Journal on Amazon

Since hiring our most recent new team member here in Puerto Rico, Ian, we’ve been able to make some big moves on Amazon as it relates to our Freedom Journal sales.

When Ian came on board The Freedom Journal on Amazon was the first project he took on, which included:

Keyword research

Coaching w/ a listing expert

A lot of testing

While the holidays certainly have played a role in our increased sales over the past couple of months, we’re confident we wouldn’t be where we are right now without Ian’s contributions!

We looked forward to continuing to track trends with our listing and sharing them with you right here in our monthly income reports ;)

Holiday Fun

Towards the middle of December we started to experience first-hand just how a big a deal the holidays are in Puerto Rico.

From an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party to a Golf Cart Light Parade to music and cheer in the Plaza, Palmas Del Mar was like one big holiday festivity super center!

After attending every event possible in Palmas, we each headed our own way: home to spend Christmas and New Years with family and friends.

San Diego was beautiful as ever…

While Maine flirted with zero degrees nearly every day!

I got to experience the best of both worlds, and John finally got in a 3-day Sugarloaf trip in after having leaned his skis for over 3 years.

No matter where you spent the holidays, we hope you were snuggled up with family, friends and loved ones.

Happy New Year, Fire Nation!

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December 2016 Income Breakdown*

Product/Service Income: $140,929

The Freedom Journal: Accomplish your #1 goal in 100 days!

Shopify: $20,941 (420 Freedom Journals & 91 Digital Packs sold!)

Amazon: $28,425 (737 Freedom Journals sold!)

Total: $49,366

Podcasters’ Paradise: The #1 Podcasting community in the world!

Recurring: $15,490 (7 annual, 198 monthly)

New members: $10,125 (47 new members)

Total: $25,615

Podcast Sponsorship Income: $59,250

Podcast Websites: $5,000 Your all-in-one podcast website peace of mind

Free Podcast Course: A free 15-day course on Podcasting

Free Webinar Course: A free 10-day course on Webinars

Free Goals Course: A free 8-day course on Setting & Accomplishing Goals

Funnel On Fire: A free 8-day course on Creating a Funnel that Converts!

WebinarOnFire: $1,319 Learn how to Create & Present Webinars that Convert!

SkillsOnFire: $164

Podcast Launch: Audiobook: $180 | eBook: $35

Affiliate Income: $75,545

*Affiliate links below

Resources for Entrepreneurs: $25,660

Audible: $161

BlueHost: $1,650 (Step-by-step guide and 23 WordPress tutorials)

Click Funnels: $20,140

Coaching referrals: $2,527 (email me for an introduction to a mentor for overall online business or a Podcast focused mentor!)

ConvertKit: $102

Disclaimer Template: $148 (legal disclaimers for your website)

Fizzle: $569

LeadPages: $363

Courses for Entrepreneurs: $46,431

Ryan Levesque’s ASK: $2,543

DSG’s Create Awesome Online Courses: $15,105

Ramit Sethi: $19,193

Self-Publishing School: $498

Nick Stephenson’s First 10k Readers: $354

Michael Hyatt’s Best Year Ever: $7,574

Rick Mulready’s FB ADvantage: $97

Bryan Harris’ 10k Subscribers: $790

Josh Turner’s LinkedIn Academy: $277

Resources for Podcasters: $1,255

Libsyn: $700 (promo code Fire)

Pat Flynn’s Smart Podcast Player: $106

UDemy Podcasting Course: $29

Podcasting Press: $420

Other Resources: $2,199

Amazon Associates: $863

Other: $1,336

Total Gross Income in December: $216,474

Business Expenses: $68,307

Advertising: $4,497

Affiliate Commissions (Paradise): $1,096

Accounting: $350

Cost of goods sold: $6,403

Design & Branding: $1,980

Education: $59

Legal & Professional: $367

Meals & Entertainment: $704

Merchant / bank fees: $2,427

Amazon fees: $7,033

Shopify fees: $361

Stripe fees: $26

PayPal fees: $350

Office expenses: $728

Payroll Taxe Expenses: $1,407

Promotional / events: $318

Paradise Refunds: $2,889

WebinarOnFire Refunds: $1,319 (invoice total)

Shipwire: $6,000

Sponsorships: $10,956

Show notes: $408

Total Launch Package Fees: $175

Travel: $1,015

The Freedom Journal: $9,009

Virtual Assistant Fees: $5,570

Website Fees: $2,860

Recurring, Subscription-based Expenses: $3,069

Adobe Creative Cloud: $100

Avangate: $470

Boomerang: $80 (team package)

Brandisty: $24

Authorize.net: $91.10

Cell Phone: $258

CCBill: $20

Dropbox: $99 (annual subscription)

Google Storage: $9.99

Go2MyPC: $12

Internet: $332

eVoice: $9.95

Infusionsoft CRM: $359

Insurance: $551

Libsyn: $323

Chatroll: $49

PureChat: $20

ScheduleOnce: $9

Skype: $2.99

Shopify: $20

Scout: $10

TaxJar: $19

Workflowy: $4.99

MeetEdgar: $49

Wistia: $25

WPCurve: $29

Zapier: $15

Taxes & Licenses: $77

Total Expenses in December: $71,376

Payroll to John, Kate & PR Team: $18,395

In our May 2014 Income Report and our June 2016 Income Report, Josh focuses on how to pay yourself as an entrepreneur. Check them out!

Total Net Profit for December 2016: $145,098

Biggest Lesson Learned

Goals and 3 Words

Inspired by Chris Brogan, I started my own tradition of choosing 3 words based on my goals for the New Year to help represent my vision and guide me towards success. If you’ve never done this before, I highly recommend it.

Having my 3 words last year, which were Systems, Leverage, and Strength, not only helped me get back on track when I was feeling a little ‘out of the lines’, but they also helped encourage and motivate me.

This year, my 3 words are Breathe, Commit, and Share.

While my goals remain somewhat consistent with those I had in 2016, my words seem completely different.

Turns out, they actually aren’t all that different in meaning.

If you haven’t set your goals for the New Year, and if you’re feeling like having 3 words to help guide you throughout the year might be helpful, then I encourage you to take 30 minutes today to sit down, reflect, and write it down.

Alright Fire Nation, that’s a wrap!

Until next month, keep your FIRE burning!

~ Kate & John

Note: we report our income figures as accurately as possible, but in using reports from a combo of Infusionsoft & Xero to track our product and total income / expenses, they suggest the possibility of a 3 – 5% margin of error. 

Click here for all of EOFire’s Income Reports

This post was written by Kate Erickson, Content Creator and Implementer at EOFire. Follow Kate on Social:

The post EOFire’s December 2016 Income Report appeared first on EOFire Business Podcasts.

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