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Episode 243: Portfolios of Inspiration

Running multiple profit centers can be an organizational nightmare. Barbara Winter manages her five profit centers through a portfolio system. Her ideas take you into an inspirational process that will help you design and shape a portfolio for each profit center.

There are a few tricks to successfully maintaining your portfolio of profit centers over time. One of those tricks is an acid test you can use for each profit center. Do you have an event’s day or a literary day on your calendar? Find out how Barbara organizes her portfolios and how she manages her energy each week. Our conversation will have you rethinking how you spend your time and energy. DOWNLOAD

For those of us in a venture for a long time, there are questions to ask yourself. Does each profit center still fit in the portfolio? Has the profit center gotten more attractive over time? And other questions we answer, like what do Barbara Winter and Paul McCartney have in common?

Having a portfolio of profit centers will prevent a Ground Hog Day experience, repeating the same day over and over. “Somebodies life will change today,” is the phrase that enters Barbara’s mind before she teaches emerging entrepreneurs how to Make A Living Without A Job and become joyfully jobless.

Before we finish our podcast conversation, Barbara describes her Einstein-like grandson, Zachary, and the space she creates for his ideas. Is your house a safe place for ideas? She has an expansive way of shaping ideas worth integrating into your mind.

“When it stops being fun, I’m done. Crocheting my 400^th scarf is still fun.” —Barbara Winter

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After listening, do the following three WeMentor C.A.L.M. Exercises:

Take this risk: If you still haven’t scheduled a one-hour $49.00 Brainstorming Session with Barbara Winter, do it now. Reshape your day and week by developing a portfolio for each Multiple Profit Center. Barbara can help you design it.
Apply Self-Compassion: Tune in to your energy center. Become aware of how your creative energy flows. You can track this during the day. Focus on activities that utilize your energy in the best way. Barbara uses Mondays as her event days, like taping our podcast conversation. Her energy for that kind of activity is higher. On her Literary Day, she writes and researches her Winning Ways newsletter. She expands her Literary Day to several days each week while she writes two books. Give yourself the gift of fluidity and flexibility as you create your portfolio.
Welcome Appreciation: Say to yourself, “I enjoy the work I am doing today. Creating a portfolio of multiple profit centers will honor me as a ‘self-bosser.’ I am becoming more aware of how to schedule my day with activities based on my energy level and the flow of my energy. I can find ways to bring more joy in serving others. My day is fluid. My approach is being patient and flexible.”

“I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.” – John Dewey

Mine your experiences with new learnings so you can reinvent (or evolve) yourself as you redesign your business. When WeMentor… your life gets better!!! Mentoring WORKS.

Podcast Guest Mentor

Barbara J. Winter. Barbara is a pioneering self-employment advocate, writer, and teacher who has spent the last thirty years pondering the question, “Why aren’t we all self-employed?” Helping others discover the Joyfully Jobless life is her favorite occupation. To readers of Winning Ways newsletter, the longest-running self-employment publication of its kind, she is editor/publisher.

Readers of Making a Living Without a Job, a book that’s been in print since 1993, know her as the author.

Participants in Barbara’s seminar of the same name, along with others including Establish Yourself as an Expert and How to Support Your Wanderlust, know her as a passionate teacher.

She also leads retreats to help small business owners bring creative thinking and fresh ideas into their work. She is convinced that small is still beautiful and loves working with one-person enterprises. Barbara is also an intrepid world traveler and a curious lifelong learner. When she isn’t out exploring the world, she can be found blogging at JoyfullyJobless.com, connecting with other entrepreneurs on Facebook, or reading a really good book.

Episode 243: Portfolios of Inspiration

Author: Nancy A. Meyer, M.A.

Nancy A. Meyer, M.A., is a seasoned entrepreneurial leader, business and life mentor/coach/teacher, podcaster, author, and certified mindfulness yoga and meditation integrator (she integrates those skill sets into everything). Nancy’s compassionate and collaborative approach reinforces resilience while maintaining accountable conversations supporting how you redefine your lead while redesigning your business. Nancy calls this “Dual Innovation Leadership.” Nancy founded WeMentor, inc. in 1992 to change the leadership in our country by providing emerging and existing business owners with mentoring in Dual Innovation Leadership. She has mentored thousands and is eager to work with you! Assert self-leadership and get started today! Clients say, “Nancy is a compelling, engaging, and ‘decipher the trees from the forest’ kind of mentor, speaker, and leader. A dedicated entrepreneurial leader and mentor who role models what she preaches. Her style and candor enrich the content she delivers and the results clients experience.” Nancy accepts people where they are while inspiring them to breakthrough into new dimensions:  As an Entrepreneurial Leader (Innovator),  As a Competent Business Owner (Practitioner)  As a Mentor (Role Model)  As a Spiritual Being and Self-Leadership Master! Start by subscribing to WeMentor Mondays with Nancy PODCAST. Join your peers and...