“Nothing is ever as complicated as we make it,” says Gill Moakes of life and entrepreneurship. The award-winning ICF certified business coach and podcast host discusses the power of taking calculated risks in business. Gill explains how trusting oneself and making bold decisions can drive both business and personal growth. She highlights the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face, including mental barriers and societal expectations, urging women to actively choose success and develop the courage to take bigger risks.

Gill delves into the impact of limiting beliefs and the pursuit of external validation on entrepreneurs’ risk-taking abilities. She shares personal stories and professional insights to show how reevaluating one’s self-image and challenging ingrained beliefs can lead to greater business success and personal fulfillment.

Exploring broader aspects of entrepreneurship, Gill covers the trade-off between the perceived stability of traditional employment and the autonomy—and accompanying instability—of running one’s own business. She emphasizes that having control over one’s decisions, despite the risks involved, provides a unique form of security that traditional jobs often do not offer.

Quotes

• “Most women entrepreneurs need support. They need coaches. They need mentors. They need people around them—a community to be able to cultivate the courage to start playing a bigger game, to start taking the risks. A lot of women struggle to choose themselves for success.” (03:54 | Gill Moakes)
• “Nothing is ever as complicated as we make it. I think that’s probably my biggest insight.” (37:43 | Gill Moakes)
• “People love to complicate their business so much and it doesn’t have to be that complicated. Business is about three things. Be a nice person. Don't be an idiot—be better at what you do than most people. Just be outstandingly good at what you do. And thirdly, put relationships above algorithms. Do those three things.” (38:04 | Gill Moakes)

Links

Connect with Gill Moakes:

Social Media Handles:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillmoakes/

Insta - @gillmoakes

Substack - https://substack.com/@gillmoakes

Website URLS:

https://www.gillmoakes.com/

https://www.gillmoakes.com/podcast

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Instagram: @welcometoeloma

Website: WelcometoEloma.com

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Social: @kileypeters + Linkedin.com/in/kileypeters

Websites: RAYNEIX.com, KileyPeters.com

Weekly Email Newsletter: RIXNewsletter.com

Email: info@rayneix.com

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“Being a conscious leader makes smart business sense,” asserts Ana Maria Moreno, CEO and founder of Copal. Copal is a business coaching practice that incorporates inner energetic work to help entrepreneurs elevate their business and personal lives. Ana Maria has an impressive background, including an Ivy League degree, an MBA from Oxford, and leadership roles at startups and Uber, but despite her professional success, she still felt something was missing. This realization led her to align her business acumen with a mindful, purpose-driven approach at Copal.

Ana Maria stresses that even the best strategies can fail if a leader lacks the right mindset; passion alone is insufficient without a clear business roadmap. She introduces the “Copal Method,” a three-step process she developed, which consists of dissolution (conducting an honest self-assessment), creation (developing a personal vision), and offering up (executing that vision). This method integrates detailed business strategy with inner work, aligning business practices with personal growth.

Ana Maria anticipates a shift from the hustle culture to a more conscious, mindful approach to business and leadership. She envisions conscious leadership—focusing on both results and team well-being—as increasingly vital, particularly as AI and technology continue to change the business scene.

Quotes

• “I really chose to do the inner work and through that, I realized and came to understand that my purpose in the world and in my life is to really help connect two seemingly disparate worlds, which is business, with a more conscious, mindful approach.” (03:07 | Ana Maria Moreno)
• “I really decided to leverage all of my skills in business, which had been accumulated and had made me very successful. So I didn't want to throw that out and it is a part of me, but also, I wanted to do it in a way that felt more like truly me. With Copal, we're helping entrepreneurs, leaders, and changemakers, create businesses that feel authentically them and that support them in creating lives that are also authentically theirs.” (03:30 | Ana Maria Moreno)
• “Not everyone's path needs to look a certain way. What success means to one person can be very different for what success means to someone else. So for me, it's really defining what success is for each individual, both in business and in their life, and then helping them realize that and realize that vision. Because I think that every one of us has these gifts that we came to the world to bring.” (04:04 | Ana Maria Moreno)
• “We need to broaden the definition of entrepreneurship so that there's a bigger spectrum of what entrepreneurship looks like.” (15:32 | Ana Maria Moreno)
• “Conscious leadership is a mindful approach to leadership where you are leading your teams to amazing results, but you're doing it in a way that you're caring for their wellness and not just what you're doing, but how you're doing it, how you're getting to those results, and how people feel and are engaged throughout that process.” (18:07 | Ana Maria Moreno)

Links

Connect with Welcome to Eloma

Instagram: @welcometoeloma

Website: WelcometoEloma.com

Connect with Ana Maria Moreno

Instagram: the_copal

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana-maria-moreno-3a61688/

Connect with Kiley

Social: @kileypeters +

Looking to redefine success on your own terms? Host Kiley Peters dives into the concept of personal success and shares what she calls the "DNA of Success" framework. Drawing on her experiences with Brainchild Studios, her digital marketing agency, and the founding of RAYNE IX, Kiley guides listeners toward understanding that pursuing someone else's definition of success can lead only to burnout and dissatisfaction.

The "DNA of Success" framework is a tool Kiley created to guide individuals in aligning their endeavors with their own visions of success. This framework, rooted in the principle of making business personal, operates on the SELF acronym:

• Significance - Identifying personal purpose and the purpose of one's business or role.
• Energy - Understanding what drives and drains energy, focusing on personal values, and aligning time and energy with what truly matters.
• Leadership - Defining personal and professional goals, creating a roadmap to achieve them, and leading oneself or a team to realize these goals.
• Facts - Assessing the hard facts, such as resources, time, and financial needs, to achieve the set goals.

Through this framework, Kiley offers a pathway for listeners to dissect and understand their true motivations, energy sources, leadership goals, and the concrete facts that frame their ambitions.

Kiley provides actionable advice and shares how her "Accelerator" program and "CEO Hotline" are designed to support executive women and small business owners in applying these principles to level up their businesses. Whether you're reevaluating your career goals, seeking to redefine your business's impact, or simply in search of a community that understands the unique challenges of aligning personal and professional success, this episode of Welcome To Eloma offers a clear, structured approach to achieving fulfillment on your own terms.

Quotes

• “I realized that what I really wanted to do was I wanted to help women, small business owners, build better business backends and build greater business value. And I wanted to help them build companies that would change their lives and hopefully, potentially the lives of people around them.” (03:24 | Kiley Peters)
• “We get to this point where we're like, ‘what am I doing? I'm running a business that I didn't even want to do in the first place. This isn't what I wanted.’ And I believe that that's because many of us have not actually taken the time to define what success looks like before we start taking action, before we start making movements.” (04:56 | Kiley Peters)
• “For you as an individual, when it comes to significance, our big question here is what is your significance? What is your personal purpose? Why are you here? What are you meant to do as a human being?” (07:10 | Kiley Peters)
• “If we take the time to understand ourselves and understand what lights us up and understand what gives us energy, our output can be significantly greater in a shorter period of time.” (09:23 | Kiley Peters)
• “We believe that business is human and humans are the most important part of business. And we need to make business personal because we spend so much of our lives working to afford lives that we want to live. We should be keeping that in mind in terms of all of the things that we do and we should be really intentional about all the decisions we're making.” (18:28 | Kiley Peters)

Bio

Kiley Peters is a keynote speaker, serial entrepreneur, small business strategist, executive coach, and content marketer with nearly 15 years of industry experience.

She is on a mission to help 1 million women build more financially free and fulfilling lives through her founding of RAYNE IX–an executive consultancy helping women launch, grow, and exit their consulting businesses so they can have greater autonomy, financial...