APRIL 2022 Women Thrive Magazine

WOMEN THRIVE MAGAZINE

ARE YOU WILLING TO TAKE A CHANCE ON YOUR INNER REBEL? Kelly Bentley

SPECIAL FEATURE PAY UP - THE FUTURE OF WOMEN AND WORK RESHMA SAUJANI

APRIL 2022

SPRING TOWARDS YOUR SOUL GOAL Deepika Sandhu

HOW TO AUTOMATE YOUR BUSINESS FOR MORE FREEDOM? Raimonda Jankunaite

SHOULD ONLINE LEARNING STAY OR GO? Manja Horner

April Issue 7 Editor's Note: Every time I see a woman take a courageous act of sharing her story it makes me feel so proud.

Over the centuries women, specially educated and intelligent women have been attempted to be suppressed, shut down and forced to stay quiet.

Over the years women have carried so much guilt and shame over things that happened to us.

This is the time for women to rise, But there is no better time than now for women to use our voice. When the world is in chaos we must rise, we must speak our truth, and we must

and the only way to do it is to own the power of our voice. So I encourage you to speak up and ask for what you want in life.

lead.

This is our mission at the Women You may be wondering what can I do to make a difference? The first thing you can do is use your voice. Share your knowledge, share your story, your experiences. Write a book, start

Thrive to have a platform where every woman can be heard and seen, valued and appreciated for her impact on this world. It is time we rise and thrive together.

that blog, create that podcast, and leave a legacy.

Raimonda Jankunaite

Notable Days Wondering about topics to talk about this month? Here are some notable days and observations for April.

April 7: World Health Day, National No Housework Day, National Walking Day April 9 - Day of Silence April 13- Plat appreciation day April 14 - Moments of Laughter day April 17 - Easter Sunday April 21 - Queen Elizabeth's Birthday April 22 - Earth Day & Take Your Daughter and Son to Work Day (fourth Thursday) April 23: National Picnic Day, National Take a Chance Day, St George's Day April 25: National Hairstylist Appreciation Day* April 29: International Dance Day April 30: International Jazz Day, National Honesty Day

April is observing World Autism Awareness Month National Garden Month National Humor Month National Poetry Month National Internship Awareness Month Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month Stress Awareness Month Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Are you willing to take a chance on your inner rebel?

Written By Kelly Bentley Most people believe that the rebels among us are born rebellious, its inherently in their DNA. The cool cats, the square pegs, the thrill seekers… the people who live life on the edge. It’s them or us. I disagree.

Sure, some peeps are more out there or at least align closer to the quintessential description of a rebel – sporting a mohawk, wearing sleeve tattoos or wearing sneakers in the boardroom… but the truth is we are all rebels. Every single one of us. True rebellion starts in the mind and is completed in our actions.

It’s the best kept secret… and it’s particularly well kept in the business world. Following the rules is for the majority, being a maverick is for the elite few – NOT TRUE.

Being a rebel is entirely up to you. You don’t need to be aloof, have a big bank account or play the drums in a rock band. You can be a rebellious geek, age isn’t a factor, kindness and understanding significance is a must and accepting that not everyone is going to get you including your immediate circle.

Being rebellious means taking big, massive, energised action balanced by:

Choosing your circle Understanding your ego – it can ignite and destroy Being better than you were yesterday Saying no – in a way that makes the other person feel respected Under promising and over-delivering

The awareness that assumption is the mother of all f*ckups Understanding your word is your honour Treating time as your most valuable currency Recognising the diamonds around you

Colouring outside of the lines is what this world so desperately needs – practically what can you do to seek out this inner rebel of yours?

Try this simple exercise that will stop your logical brain from arguing whether your rebellious dream is possible. Time yourself – 20 seconds for each action - scribble, type, paint – the trick is NOT to think – just act!

Write down the biggest scariest goal that you can think of - link it to your dream or passion Write down 3 actions you believe you need to take to achieve it Write down the results you will achieve Write down the names of 5 people who will join you on the ride Write down how the achievement will make you feel Write down the people that your results will impact in a positive way

Your inner rebel shows up in many ways, but this exercise will probably uncover a voice that may be quiet now and get louder – go with it. Belief in the impossible is what makes it possible and there is where rebels are born.

Being a rebel shouldn’t be this elusive goal that only the very few ever achieve, it’s actually all about BEING more HUMAN.

Leaning into your sense of humour, taking chances, stepping up, going a little extra and being authentic – all of which remain intact even if you experience failure – that’s the key, getting back up when you fall down that’s when the true rebel comes out.

My challenge to you… rewire your circuit, relearn who you really are - do something completely out of the ordinary for the ‘old you’ and completely unexpected by the people around you and then drop me a DM to let me know how you felt and what response you got.

Changing this world is going to take a rebellion and it starts with you and I, redefining who we want to be.

Kelly Bentley is the founder and CEO of The Rebel Element, a stakeholder engagement consultancy. Kelly is the custodian of the company vision & growth with a focus on partnerships and the organisation’s unique stakeholder-centric engagement model.

Passionate about building businesses, Kelly focuses on the human element and specialises in building awareness, collaboration, and trust to safeguard

Kelly has built her business and relationships around a few key values including courage, empathy, authenticity, reliability, innovation, observation and

long-term loyalty and

environment-conscious

sustainable business

leadership.

growth.

A Zimbabwean born farming gal; Kelly is most at home on the Zambezi river with a fishing rod in hand.

Women Thrive Summit G L O B A L W O M E N E M P O W E R M E N T E V E N T Every March we host the annual Women Thrive Summit to empower women globally to rise and thrive in business and life.

This year we featured over 30 amazing international speakers on our platform streaming live to our audience of 750 people worldwide. It was truly an impactful event.

Every evening we hosted live and interactive panels discussing various important topics for women.

This event may have come to an end but we invite you to grab your ALL-ACCESS pass today - so you can watch any of these talks on the replay. You will absolutely love the empowering women stories shared on our stage.

Join us for a special Closing Awards Ceremony happening on Saturday the 9th of April

SPECIAL FEATURE

Pay Up - The Future of Women and Work Reshma Saujani

Pay Up - The Future of Women and Work Reshma Saujani The founder of Girls Who Code and bestselling author of Brave, Not Perfect confronts the “big lie” of corporate feminism and presents a bold plan to address the burnout and inequity harming America’s working women today.

Women’s unemployment rose to nearly fifteen percent, and globally women lost over $800 billion in wages. Fifty-one percent of women say that their mental health has declined, while anxiety and depression rates have We told women that to break glass ceilings and succeed in their skyrocketed. careers, all they needed to do is dream big, raise their hands, and In this urgent and rousing call to lean in. But data tells a different arms, Reshma Saujani dismantles the myth of “having it all” and story. Historic numbers of lifts the burden we place on women left their jobs in 2021, individual women to be primary resulting in their lowest caregivers, and to work around a workforce participation since system built for and by men.

1988.

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The time has come, she argues, for innovative corporate leadership, government intervention, and a sweeping culture shift; it’s time to Pay Up. Through powerful data and personal narrative, Saujani shows that the cost of inaction —for families, for our nation’s economy, and for women themselves—is too great to ignore. She lays out four key steps for creating lasting change: empower working women, educate corporate leaders, revise our narratives about what it means to be successful, and advocate for policy reform.

Both a direct call to action for business leaders and a pragmatic set of tools for women themselves, Pay Up offers a bold vision for change as America defines the future of work. www.reshmasaujani.com/books/

Reshma Saujani is the founder & CEO of Girls Who Code, the international nonprofit organization working to close the gender gap in technology and change the image of what a computer programmer looks like and does. She is the author of Brave, Not Perfect and the New York Times bestseller Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World. n her nine-year tenure as the CEO of Girls Who Code, Reshma grew the organization to one of the largest and most prestigious non-profits in the country.

You can listen to Reshma’s TED talk, “Teach girls, bravery not perfection,” here. It more than four million views and has sparked a worldwide conversation about how we’re raising our girls.

Today, Girls Who Code has taught 300,000 girls through direct inperson computer science education programming, and reached 500 million people worldwide through its New York Times-bestselling book series and award-winning campaigns. In 2019, Girls Who Code was awarded Most Innovative NonProfit by Fast Company.

“Let your wounds be your inspiration, your story your motivation and your voice your secret weapon to inspire others” - Raimonda Jankunaite

Are you ready to use the power of your voice to impact lives globally?

Every one of us has a story - a story of overcoming some kind of pains and struggles in life. Those challenging moments in your life did not go in vain. These were the defining moments in your life that shaped who you are today.

In those moments of pain, you found lessons and possibly a new purpose in your life. It refined your vision, renewed your faith and created a stronger and more determined version of you.

What if I told you that these darkest moments of your life could save someone's life? It could transform someone's self-belief and change their life's trajectory. All because you chose to be brave to share your story.

What if I told you that your story could not only change someone's life but also transform your business for a brighter future?

Learn how to use the power of your story to elevate your authority, land incredible speaking opportunities and impact lives globally. Join our 6 months Women Thrive Speaker's Academy and learn the skills and secrets of the most sought after public speakers.

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Spring Towards Your Soul Goal Why now is the best time to set soulaligned goals and how to achieve them with ease Written By Deepika Sandhu

Spring is the season to set goals and move into action.

While most people want to set resolutions at the start of the

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new year, that isn’t a good time for setting a new goal.

Winter is the season to hibernate, rest, go within, and reflect.

This is why New Year’s resolutions don’t stand a chance.

Instead, I use the energy of spring - of rebirth, rejuvenation, increasing energy levels, and warming temperatures - to set a soul goal.

It is only Q2 of 2022 and I am sure you have some big and amazing things you want to achieve this year - so how about we set some goals and stick to them with ease?

A soul goal is about you at a holistic level. It is about creating a goal that helps you to form a deeper connection with your innermost self and that supports you in your life’s journey. It is about who you want to be and how you want to feel and less about a specific action or outcome that you are looking to achieve.

For so many years, I would start the new year by setting a resolution to lose 10 pounds. Every January, I would join a new gym, buy new workout clothes, start exercising more and eat a salad twice a day. But after doing that for a few weeks (if I were lucky), I would just give up.

I wasn’t seeing results and I didn’t want to keep up the strict routine that I set for myself. Every time, I would feel like I failed. That new year’s resolution would be out the window before January was even over.

Then I tried shifting the idea of losing weight to be more holistic and better reflect a feeling of improved health that I want more of in my life.

I set a soul goal to live in an abundance of health and wellness.

Sounds so much better right?

Instead of just focusing on moving a number on a scale now I was focused on my health and wellness expanding, improving and becoming my lifestyle.

To support my soul goal, I created a list of actions that I could take each and every month.

The first month, I focused on simply going for a walk each day.

Next month, I added in learning to prepare 1- 2 healthier food options. The month after that, I would try a new yoga class.

Each month I would add something small into my days that supported my soul goal.

By the end of the year, I was able to piece all those small things together and guess what I found? I had made real shifts in my life that supported the soul goal that I set for myself.

These days, I create soul goals to support my creative pursuits, my relationships, my finances and so many other aspects of my life.

By formulating a soul goal, I give myself a focal point or anchor that shifts my mindset and my actions towards what I wish to bring more of into my life slowly and easily versus one big quick fix that may or may not stick.

Now it’s your turn. What soul goal do you want to set?

What shifts or small actions can you take each month to support this soul goal? Harness the energy of the season to spring this soul goal into action and watch all that happens once you do!

Deepika is a Silicon Valley based Business Executive, Author of Hello Universe, It's Me and Inspirational Speaker.

Deepika’s mission is to inspire busy, hard-working professionals to go from overwhelmed, demotivated, burnt out and exhausted to living a life that is balanced, fulfilled and joyful in every way. https://deepikasandhu.co/

When the world is in chaos take the time to press

PAUSE

Tips for your mental health and self care during the times of global chaos

Self-care isn't selfish, in fact, it is necessary for your mental health and your happiness, and even your financial success. Women are great at nurturing others and giving - but when it comes to ourselves we are often not as kind and nurturing as we are to others.

This month we encourage you to take a 'Goddess Day' as our Women Thrive, speaker, Monica Zampa recommends - a day all to yourself - when you can slow down, read your favourite book or go for a walk in the park, enjoy nature. This is a day for your mental health, rejuvenation, rest, journaling and reflection.

How about booking yourself a massage, spa pedicure or facial?

You deserve to be pampered and spoilt. In the end of the day, why do we work so hard if we can't enjoy the fruits of our labour? What are your best self-care practices?

Do you feel inspired to take goddess day off? Tag us on Instagram at

@womeninbusinessclub and let us know how you are spoiling yourself.

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"One of the rewards of success is freedom.

The ability to do whatever you like."

- Sting

How to automate your business for more freedom & success?

Written by Raimonda Jankunaite With summer just around the corner we all dream of taking some time away from our desks to enjoy the sunshine in our backyard or travel to some exotic place. Whilst this may sound like a dream come true - the last thing you want is your laptop tagging along or your inbox popping off with unnecessary tasks that could be quite easily automated to give you freedom and peace of mind.

There is nothing glamorous about entrepreneurship if you can't enjoy time away with your friends, family or on your own soaking up the sun and reading your favourite book in a cabana.

So how can you step away from your business guilt and worry-free

The power of automations. this summer?

Without an automated email system, your business simply can not grow and scale.

Client onboarding system what happens when a new client joins your program or buys a course or other product or service? You probably know all the steps that need to happen when someone becomes your client - but have you tried to automate this process with client onboarding email and fulfilment

What can you automate?

There are many things you can automate in your business to give you peace of mind, let's start with a few simple things here:

process so it can function without you?

Sales & Marketing process can your business generate new leads and make sales without you? Can this process be automated so it does not require you to take the time out of your

Your email follow-up system

day to do this?

is the key to a sustainable and scalable business when every new prospective lead who enters your world is able to go through a consistent, predictable and predetermined nurture sequence.

When your sales pipeline is filled with new leads and clients converting with ease, you can truly sit back and enjoy your time sipping mojitoes and swinging in the hammock in the sun.

5 Days Challenge to Help You Attract & Nurture Your Ideal Clients May 9-13th Do you want to attract better and more consistent ideal clients to your business?

Imagine having a database of prospects who have already built up the know-like-trust factor with you and not having to rely on social media for your next launch?

Having your own database of prospects is the key to success in business - but perhaps you are wondering where to even begin?

Are you looking to systemise and automate your business whilst growing your email list of ideal clients?

Join us for a 5-day challenge where we take you step by step in setting up your email marketing and automation system so you can start filling your database with ideal clients and automate your business to have more freedom to enjoy life. Want to know more? Make sure you are signed up for our email updates to receive more information.

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Should Online Learning Stay or Go? Longevity in the Course Creator Industry Written by Manja Horner Women, why wouldn’t you be excited about getting into a 325 billion-dollar market?

Why wouldn’t you be excited about passive income? And when this market is accessible for anyone with a laptop and an area of expertise, why wouldn’t you jump in?

What market am I talking about? I’m talking about the course creator world.

Online learning is a growing industry — and it’s here to stay.

If women pay attention to what drives longevity in this industry, they’re best positioned to launch this industry into the future, leveraging what’s great and evolving what desperately needs to change.

Let’s break it down.

What will drive longevity for course creators?

Over the past decade, a lot has changed in the course creator industry. Still, some consistent elements have remained foundational to producing high-quality, effective learning.

The psychology of learning — The basic psychology of learning, concepts like motivation, attention, and emotion, continue to remain essential.

Course creation still requires a learning design process that focuses on understanding the learner’s environment and their needs. This design process involves developing a variety of learning activities that encourage people to stay engaged, practice what they learn, reflect, and gain confidence all while measuring their success.

Adults learn differently than children. We have busy environments, countless distractions, and limited time.

Effective course creation incorporates these principles of adult learning.

What needs to evolve?

In courses, creators need to rethink the way we teach; we need to shorten our lessons, focus on community dimensions, and get people to learn by doing.

Creators need to keep our technological savviness to deploy learning and engage students in new ways.

Creators need to develop empathy for the student experience and allow this empathy to shape their courses.

Quality over sales tactics As a professional community, creators need to evaluate the way we sell learning to build trust with our prospective learners, not take advantage of them with disingenuous marketing tactics.

Why are women the best positioned to excel in the future of online learning?

I firmly believe that women are poised to transform the

What is your course learning experience?

Creators need to swap our information-sharing culture with a culture that promotes transformational learning experiences.

As course creators, we need to constantly be learning, experimenting, and finding ways to deliver more and more effective courses for our learners.

"Women have been transforming the course creator industry, and we won’t stop now."

course creator industry with transformational offers, with less hustle, and with more passive income.

Why? Women are collaborators. We rise and thrive by lifting each other up. We excel at collaborations that leverage each other’s expertise with creative partnerships and licensing models.

Women want to hustle less and spend more time enjoying their families and enjoying the lifestyle they want. This leads us to build smarter sales models and passive income streams into our business approaches.

Women don’t want insincere sales tactics and overhyped optics. We want to create high-quality interactions. We want to deliver on what we promise But the main reason that I believe women are poised to transform this industry? Because we already are.

For the past several years, I’ve seen women like Raimonda Jankunaite who are transforming what it means to empower and elevate women in business. I have seen women like Ali Brown who are paving new ways to run businesses successfully.

Women like Amy Porterfield who is encouraging collaboration and genuinely authentic people like Haley Burkhead who is discouraging hustle culture and sleazy sales tactics. Women don’t want insincere sales tactics and overhyped optics.

Manja Horner is a speaker and education consultant who has created and published 100s of courses and virtual trainings. She is the founder of Boost Learning Design, a community and consultancy teaching entrepreneurs how to create great learning experiences for their audience that creates passive income streams with integrity.

Connect with Manja via the links below

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Money Talks How to be smart about your money and increase your revenue goals this year During the Women Thrive Summit in March, we talked about financial empowerment for women and in this article, we wanted to cover some practical ways you can generate more consistent revenue in your business so you can build a sustainable and secure business. Let's look at some of the fundamentals that will help you generate more money and improve your cash flow.

Focus on money-generating activities - there are many

Track your progress - if you

things you could be doing with

is coming from and are able to

your time in your business - but

predict your sales - how are

what are the key money

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generating activities that you

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need to focus your time and

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Add new revenue streams have you ever heard of a product ladder? A product ladder is essentially your various offers or services that are priced in a way that can appeal to different audiences.

This means having an offer that is low ticket value that is an easy yes to your potential customer, a mid-level offer that may be a course or a group program.

Followed by a high ticket offer that may be for your high-level touchpoint service that appeals to an audience who are ready to invest more in working with you.

Adding new revenue streams does not need to be complicated but it needs to solve your potential client's pain point and make it appealing for them to invest - whether they have just found you online or have been following your journey for a while.

Increase your reach - you can't possibly be in all places at all times that is why you need to increase your reach by leveraging other audiences. This can be achieved by building a network of affiliates who will be willing to promote your services to their audience for a % of the sales. This is a fast track to making more sales without having to do all the hard work of building an audience or doing all the sales activities yourself.

You can also do this by doing public speaking, featuring on podcasts or building joint ventures and partnerships with others. Better yet - you can promote other people's products to your audience and earn a nice income by recommending products or services to your audience that you do not have to fulfil.

Which of these ideas can you implement right away?

Thank you!

Thank you for taking the time to read the Women Thrive Magazine. Our team is dedicated to curating the best, most value-add and inspiring content for women and we hope that this magazine has impacted you in some way.

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