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Her guests share their most intimate stories, no holds barred. It’s the raw and vulnerable stuff that you don’t always hear about, like major rejections, epic failures, and unrelenting setbacks.
They share their most inspiring stories of overcoming adversity, never giving up, and achieving success beyond their wildest imaginations.

She created this podcast to help entrepreneurs realize that they are NOT alone. Everyone who has attempted something epic has had their share of setbacks, failures, and NOs. By sharing unfiltered stories from extraordinary individuals who overcame hardships and ultimately achieved their version of success, her hope is to inspire others to stay in the game and hold out for their own dreams.

Her mission and goal is to inspire rising entrepreneurs to break through barriers, overcome obstacles, and make a bigger impact in the world. It’s her passion to show people how to take action, own their value, and grow their top-line revenue. You CAN build a successful and flourishing business and make a global impact by doing what you love, and Success Unfiltered will inspire you ever step of the way!

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072 | Chelann Gienger Shares How to Comeback from Near Business Shut Down

Oct 10, 2018

072 | Chelann Gienger Shares How to Comeback from Near Business Shut Down

Chelann Gienger is a millennial thought leader and young entrepreneur movement creator. Along with many other publication features highlighting her serial entrepreneurship ventures, Chelann has been featured in HuffPost, EOFire, and was named in the Top 40 Millennial Influencers to Follow in 2018.  At the age of 18, Chelann opened NUYU Juice Bar along with her partners. To date, NUYU Juice Bar has served hundreds of customers on a weekly basis in Yakima, Washington.

Everyone knows that you need a solid business plan in place in order to open a business, but how many people out there know what’s necessary to CLOSE a business?

It’s a not so fun topic, but one that this week’s guest believes is important (and I agree!)

This week’s guest, Chelann Gienger, created her first business three days after graduating high school, and new she’d find the success she craved. However, that success came with it’s own set of ups and downs.

In October of 2016, NUYU Juice Bar had hit a plateau. Chelann and her partners were concerned that the business wouldn’t make it through the winter.

Together they decided that they’d need to create a “Shutdown Plan” so that they knew how to handle it, if they did need to close NUYU.

Thankfully before closing, all three individuals came together and decided to kick their own BUTT one last time. In the end, they made a huge comeback!

If you’re wondering why you’d want to create a “Shutdown Plan” for your business, then this episode of Success Unfiltered is a MUST LISTEN!

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Special thanks goes out to Chelann Gienger for taking the time to chat with Michelle. Be sure to join us next week for our next new episode!

P.S. Does “Positive Mindset” Mean “Happy Thoughts 24/7?” Of course not. What DOES it mean, then? And why is a powerful sales mindset so crucial for entrepreneurs? Master Sales Strategist Shameca Tankerson and I, The Pitch Queen, have both experienced the power of a solid mindset. And in our FREE Mini-Workshop, we’re sharing our the top 3 ways to start building a mindset that will rock your business, help grow your top line revenues and change your viewpoints! Click HERE and Join us for “3 Power Practices To Create A Kickass Entrepreneurial Sales Mindset: A Mini Workshop” and put the power of your mind to work for YOU!

Here are a few key secrets we talked about in this episode:

  • Michelle introduces Chelann Gienger.
  • Chelann shares a brief description of who she is and what her business is all about.
  • “We kind of become numb to the NO after being an entrepreneur for a while.” ~ Chelann Gienger
  • Chelann shares how before opening she and her partners did some market research to find out what was and wasn’t working with Juice Bars in Yakima, Washington.
  • Three days after graduating high school, at 18 years old, Chelann opened NUYU Juice Bar with help from a loan from a close family friend.
  • Chelann shares her experience with her first potential investor (they wanted 50% ownership)! She shares the full story in this episode!
  • The reason that NUYU has remained so successful is because Chelann believes they are different from the previous Yakima Juice Bars. Chelann shares the three things that make her business stand out!
  • Service is so underrated in many businesses, and Chelann believes that it is service that helps you stand apart.
  • In November of 2016, Chelann and her partners reached a Crossroads. The business had plateaued and some of the partners were trying to decide if they’d leave the organization. Chelann shares this never before told story, in this episode!
  • After creating a potential shutdown plan for their business, Chelann and her partners decided to put their all into building the business. Within three months the changes they implemented came to fruition and the business soared.
  • “In those low moments, if we can muster up enough strength to push past that and to once again call ourselves to a higher standard and pull ourselves out of the trench. What's on the other side is almost always going to be this exponential amazingness.” ~ Chelann Gienger
  • Chelann shares why they were putting shutdown plans in place.
  • Michelle and Chelann discuss how you can’t just google “shut down plans” and find good information if closing a business is something you will have to do.
  • Chelann talks about what changes they made to NUYU to begin seeing massive shifts in the business.
  • Chelann shares what she would tell her younger self.

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P.S. Does “Positive Mindset” Mean “Happy Thoughts 24/7?” Of course not. What DOES it mean, then? And why is a powerful sales mindset so crucial for entrepreneurs? Master Sales Strategist Shameca Tankerson and I, The Pitch Queen, have both experienced the power of a solid mindset. And in our FREE Mini-Workshop, we’re sharing our the top 3 ways to start building a mindset that will rock your business, help grow your top line revenues and change your viewpoints! Click HERE and Join us for “3 Power Practices To Create A Kickass Entrepreneurial Sales Mindset: A Mini Workshop” and put the power of your mind to work for YOU!

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