In this episode, we welcome Quianna Marie who is telling us how she took her thriving business based in San Jose. CA and made the move to a completely different state to grow her business and take the next steps towards creating her dream wedding venue. But it wasn't a move of her business, it was an expansion to serving TWO locations both in California and her new Arizona home.

Quianna shares how she came to make the decision to expand her business and move, what she did to prepare, and how she made her existing California clients feel excited and comfortable about her move while also building her network in her new home.

Quianna Marie is a destination wedding photographer obsessed with weddings that feel better than they look and offers education for creatives to help turn passions into profits! She just recently expanded her business from San Jose, California to Scottsdale, Arizona. She's the kind of girl you can catch photographing luxury weddings one weekend and sitting by a dusty campfire in her cowboy boots another weekend!

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In this episode, we welcome Liz Illg who is sharing her story of taking her passion, starting a successful business, and then showing up and using standard procedures and workflows to grow her business into five successful locations.

She also shares what was at risk if she had not continually made the choice to show up for her dreams and provides encouraging advice for you to choose to show up for your own dreams.

Liz Illg is the Owner of Puff & Fluff Grooming and Pet Sitting with five locations in the Phoenix, AZ area. Not only has Liz turned her passion for animals into a thriving business, but she is also an expert when it comes to creating an environment of growth for your business as well. In fact, as an Operational Strategist, Liz specializes in working with small business owners and entrepreneurs to assist with everything from streamlining systems, building online courses, or helping you tell people what they need to know!

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Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows. (Source: Amazon)

“Growth is the battle cry of nearly every entrepreneur and business leader. Grow! Grow! Grow!… Growth is only half the equation… Most business owners try to grow their way out of their problems...but the result is simply a bigger monster.”

“Profit is not an event. Profit is not something that happened at the year end or at the end of your five-year plan or Sunday. Profit isn’t something that waits until tomorrow. Profit must happen now and always. Profit must be baked into your business. Every day, every transaction, every moment. Profit is not an event. Profit is a habit.”

“Give yourself more joy when you choose not to spend money than do you do when you choose to spend it...Celebrate every time you save – whether it’s 10 bucks or 10,000.”

"Money problems happen when: sales slow down, sales speed up (expenses go up too)"

"Bigger is NOT Always Better: more revenue does not mean you are more successful"

"Growth is only half the equation, Let the right size business find YOU!"

“Profit must happen now and always, profit is not an event, it’s a habit.”

“Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, and cash is king”

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