The Fierce Business Babe Podcast 315: How to Handle Friends Not Supporting My Business
Today, I will be answering a question that a client asked inside of one of my programs. Today’s topic is how to price your offer. I will be sharing how we supported our client with this question and giving you full-on coaching here in this episode.
How to Handle Friends Not Supporting My Business
BY: MELISSA LIN
Welcome back to another episode of The Fierce Business Babe Podcast. Let's dive into today's brand new episode. These are a new shorter style episode that we're calling this Fierce Business Q&A. It’s a micro episode for you answering one question that a client asked. This is how it's going to work: each week my team pulls a question that a client asked in one of my programs and I'm going to go into full detail here with you on how we answered the question and how we supported our client.
The question this week was pulled from my brand new high touch program to help you 3-5x your income: Fierce Circle: the membership! This program is unlike any other because it grows with you and your business. As you start, sign your first few clients, hit your first $5k month, $10k month, $50k month, and beyond, more and more content unlocks for you! And the best part? You get private access to me for your business coaching! The program is extremely personalized and meets you where you’re at in your business. You can be at the very beginning of your business, ground zero, or years into business ready to scale to 7 figures.
In this same program, we have hot seat coaching calls throughout the month where we dive deep into content, share screens, show behind the scenes of our business, put together action steps for you to move forward, monthly content drops (yes, brand new content every single month), a slack channel to ask business questions daily, private support from me, and an entire training library with over 50+ hours of material to go through that you get access to while you’re in the membership, and more.
The way that we supported this client with this question was the same day in the Slack channel. I’m in there multiple times per day supporting my clients. We also supported this client in the next group call, which was actually the very next day out.
Again, today’s question is, how to handle friends not supporting my business? This also includes family, loved ones, friends, colleagues, anybody who doesn't support your business. I can definitely relate, and I'll share an example story with you as well. One thing I do want to start with is that you can accomplish anything and everything that you put your mind to. Your success is inevitable at the end of the day. I can relate to not being supported. When I first started my coaching business neither of my parents really understood. What I know to be true is that, first, I wanted a completely different life than what they had created for themselves, and that's totally okay. Second, I could no longer take some pieces of advice from those that aren't living the lifestyle I was striving for, it just didn't make sense. What I will say is to continue to surround yourself with other like-minded entrepreneurs, other like-minded women. We're here to cheer you on and support you. You can handle anything that comes your way. You're also just getting started, there's so much more to do, and I'm so excited for you. I can also share that it's not easy to hear that the people closest to you may not trust your decisions or believe that you can do it. Just know that the other people's opinions of you have nothing to do with you, that has everything to do with them. It says nothing about you, your worthiness, how your business is going to perform, how it's going to be, or how it is now.
When I first left my engineering job to go full-time in my business one of my closest friends actually shared with me that they did not believe I was making the right decision. They believed that I would be better off staying in my 9-to-5. Less than a year later that same friend reached out and said that they were so proud of everything I had created. They actually wished they had the courage to leave their 9-to-5 and start their own business and basically do what I had done from the time when they made that first statement. If others are putting you down or telling you that you can't do something, they are pushing their fears and their limiting beliefs onto you, they're projecting. This is one of the many reasons why mindset at work is so important all throughout entrepreneurship. It’s something that you get to work on daily. Believe in you. At the end of the day, believe in yourself, even if somebody else doesn't, even if your friends don't, if family doesn’t. They don't necessarily need to get it. Surround yourself with those that do. Surround yourself with people that are going to lift you higher. Your success is inevitable if you keep going. If you believe in yourself and really surround yourself with others who truly get it and want to cheer you on, be there, and challenge you and push you to be your greatest. Believe in you, regardless of what anyone else says. At the end of the day you can accomplish anything that you want to. You get to create the life of your dreams, not somebody else's dreams.
So that is the answer to today’s question. You can handle anything that comes your way. It says nothing about you and nothing about your business. They are projecting their fears and their limiting beliefs onto you. You get to just believe in you. Stay in your lane and do your thing. We’re already getting excited for next week’s episode and can’t wait to share with you! We’ll see you next week in another brand new episode of the Fierce Business Babe Podcast bright and early next Monday morning!
Topics we cover include:
Handling others’ negative opinions
Believing in yourself
Surrounding yourself with the right people
And so much more!