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Michelle Weinstein, AKA The Pitch Queen, is the host of Success Unfiltered, which features an array of unique and inspiring guests. She talks to all kinds of innovators and achievers, including multi seven and eight figure entrepreneurs, Shark Tank veterans, authors, performers, and investors.

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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085 | Melinda Emerson Shares What the Small Biz Lady Knows About Failure

Jan 9, 2019

085 | Melinda Emerson Shares What the Small Biz Lady Knows About Failure

Melinda Emerson, “SmallBizLady” is America’s #1 Small Business Expert. She is an international expert on small business development and social media marketing. Melinda is also the president of the Quintessence Group, a marketing consulting firm based in Philadelphia, PA serving Fortune 500 clients who target small businesses. She has published over 5000 articles on small business on her blog www.succeedasyourownboss.com. Her advice is widely read, reaching more than 3 million entrepreneurs each week online. She is a former columnist for The New York Times and Entrepreneur. She is the bestselling author of Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months, 2nd  Edition, and her latest book is Fix Your Business.

Who are the five people that you surround yourself with? Are they individuals who lift you up & help you brainstorm your way through a difficult situation?

Hopefully, you said YES, that some of the people who surround you are good people who support your work.

Being an entrepreneur can be really tough, so having a tight circle of people available to lean on, is very important.

This week’s guest on Success Unfiltered, Melinda Emerson, believes that we all need a “kitchen cabinet” (as she calls it) full of trusted advisors. She even shares the top five people we need in our kitchen cabinet.

Melinda is one of America’s number one small business experts, but she didn’t get there without her fair share of failures. Her most devastating NO actually occurred because of her husband, one of her most trusted advisors, at the time.

If you’re ready to build relationships with people you can trust to help lift you up and help you muddle through the tough times, then this episode of Success Unfiltered is a MUST LISTEN!

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Special thanks go out to Melinda Emerson for taking the time to chat with Michelle. Be sure to join us next week for our next new episode!

P.S. The Online Business World Can Be Information Overload. How Do You Stand Out? There’s unrelenting noise in the online space these days. How do you show up as you, authentically connect with prospects, and create a connection that lasts? It’s the same way you make friends “IRL.” By reaching out, being of service, and just being YOU. Sound impossible? It’s NOT! You can be an exception in a world of samezies, and my new guide “How To Build Relationships Online: Your Checklist For TRUE Connections (And REAL Sales),” will show you how! Grab it right HERE!

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

  • Michelle introduces Melinda Emerson.
  • Melinda shares a brief introduction to who she is and what she does.
  • The first crushing NO that Melinda experienced occurred while she was working for an NBC station in her hometown of Pittsburgh.
  • “Your brand cannot be what’s on your business card. It also can’t be what’s in your pocket. Your brand has to be that you are a good person.” ~ Melinda Emerson
  • It took Melinda a few years but she eventually created her own company. She realized that in order to grow her business she’d have to grow herself. She shared some of how she did that in this episode.
  • The number one lesson that Melinda learned is that you need a kitchen cabinet full of 5 people who fully support you and what you want to do.
  • In 2005, Melinda had successfully created a business that was thriving, her husband was even able to leave his full-time job.
  • During that time Melinda was also pregnant, and it turned into a high-risk pregnancy where the doctor kept her home on bedrest. (This was before wifi was common in the home.)
  • Melinda had built a business that couldn’t run without her and now she couldn’t run it, so her first business ended up failing.
  • After having her baby, and praying to God, Melinda had a vision of what she wanted to do with her business. Her husband’s reaction actually led to her most devastating NO. You’ll have to listen to this episode to hear what happened!
  • Melinda followed her dreams and by 2010 she was America’s most sought-after business expert.
  • We all suffer from negative self-talk, Melinda shares how she remembers who she is and what she is capable of.
  • “At the end of the day, none of us sell anything that’s incredibly unique. The difference is our service. The difference is how much we care.” ~ Melinda Emerson
  • Melinda shares that listening to her gut is the number one way that she knows whether she should work with a brand or not. There’s more that goes into the final decision, but if it doesn’t feel right in the gut, she (or rather her team) will turn people away.
  • There are three things that Melinda recommends you look for when deciding if you should work with someone. She shares them in this episode.
  • Melinda shares what she would tell her younger self.

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P.S. The Online Business World Can Be Information Overload. How Do You Stand Out? There’s unrelenting noise in the online space these days. How do you show up as you, authentically connect with prospects, and create a connection that lasts? It’s the same way you make friends “IRL.” By reaching out, being of service, and just being YOU. Sound impossible? It’s NOT! You can be an exception in a world of samezies, and my new guide “How To Build Relationships Online: Your Checklist For TRUE Connections (And REAL Sales),” will show you how! Grab it right HERE!

Music produced by Deejay-O  www.iamdeejayo.com