The energy of earning. What it really takes to hold a 6-figure business.

Think 6-figure success is just about strategy and working more? Think again.

In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on the real reason so many education business owners block their next income level, and it has nothing to do with your offer or niche.

We’re diving into:

• Why your nervous system is the silent gatekeeper of your income.
• The subconscious sabotage that happens when your goals feel “unsafe”.
• What it really means to hold the energy of a 6-figure business owner.
• 3 powerful shifts to start embodying that energy, today!

Plus, I spill the tea on my upcoming live Zoom experience, From Classes To Cashed Up, and why this one’s different from anything I’ve done before.

If you love what you hear, please leave a review and share your thoughts! Your reviews and feedback helps me keep delivering the content you love!

Transcript

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Welcome to the Empowered Entrepreneur Podcast. My name is Michelle Smit, and I'm an ex-teacher turned online business coach for Edupreneurs the owner of Digiteach and a six-figure entrepreneur. I am in love with empowering educators just like you to create freedom filled online businesses and lives they love. If you are looking to uplevel your skills, your finances, your mindset, and change the trajectory of your life as an educator and business, then you are in the right place. Think of this podcast as your weekly dose of business and mindset development to help unlock the infinite potential within you. To play bigger with your life and go after your dreams. We are going to have so much fun together. So thank you so much for pushing play today. Now let's dive in. Hi, my friend. It is as always really good to have you here with me today. Now, before I dive into today's juicy topic, I have got something exciting to share. I have been quietly brewing something behind the scenes. I'm hosting a brand new live free training called from Classes to Cashed Up, and it's for educators and teaching business owners who are done trading time and so ready to start scaling their income and impact with online courses. But this is not going to be like a typical webinar style where I speak to you and you just type in the chat box and communicate with me like that. This is actually going to be more intimate. It's going to be more interactive. It's going to be in a Zoom where everyone's got their cameras on. Well, you don't have to have your camera on. Don't panic if you don't want to, but I want to be able to see you, I want you to be able to ask me questions directly. So I'll host a Q&A at the end and you can get real time coaching, ask me direct questions. And I'm really just craving that real human eye contact connection. So that's why I'm doing that. And the signup page is still being built, but keep your eyes peeled and I will let you know when you can register. It's going to happen at the end of April, about the 23rd of April. But I'm really excited to host this and have it more interactive in the sense that we can like literally chat together and stuff like that. Alright, so let's get onto the topic of today's episode. I want to talk about what it really takes to hold the energy of a six-figure business because it's really not what many people think. It's not strategy ultimately. Yes, you will need strategy to do it, of course. But to really hold the energy of someone who makes six-figures, which is $10,000 a month, you need a lot more than strategy. Strategy is one piece of the puzzle, and no, it's not hustling and working harder, although you can do it. But who wants that in their life? No one wants to graft and hustle and grind to 10 K. And it's also not the perfect funnel or whatever it may be, whatever the gurus are telling you that you don't have. Really, it is your energy. Your energy is the most powerful currency in your business. That is what I believe. It leads your strategy, it amplifies your visibility and your energy is what magnetizes money. It's what magnetizes opportunities, people, doors opening, sales coming in, people buying your stuff. And today I want to specifically talk about something that I don't think enough people talk about. Is your nervous system, because this is the thing. The amount of money you attract and hold in your business is directly related to how safe your nervous system feels having it. So I'll say that again. The amount of money you attract and hold in your business is directly related to how safe your nervous system feels having it. So if you might consciously want 10 K months. You're very much like, I want to have 10 K months. I want to have a 100 K a year. That's what I want consciously. And no matter what you do, you're only hitting five K a month. And you're just not breaking through the 5K mark, say for example. And you keep making 5K or you keep making 2K, and it consistently, no matter how much you're posting, no matter how much you're doing all the things right. You're not able to break this certain barrier and you have this amount that you just make, and then you can't really easily make that more. Now, what that is, is a nervous system mismatch situation. Basically, your nervous system perceives that number as unsafe, as unstable, as different, as foreign. And anything that is different and not common to you is going to be perceived by a nervous system as unsafe. And this is all on a subconscious level, so you consciously want the thing, but you subconsciously feel unsafe having the thing. Because it's a stretch, right? And so without you realizing it, you're going to sabotage yourself. So you're not going to, attract that. So small things that you won't even know you're doing, you'll be doing that will be sabotaging that money coming in. For example. It'll be overworking. You hustling without really even needing to work. You just can't stop working. You just work for the sake of working. Or you're undercharging and you just can't break through that and you undercharge. I think educators specifically would do that. They overwork their charge. It's like what they're used to. It's their pattern. And so there's a level of safety in that place you just know it. Whereas the other thing of making 10 K months and working 20 hours a week, or whatever feels unsafe. It feels foreign. And so you'll be sabotaging it. And it's not because you're lazy, it's not because you're not good enough. It's not because you can't make that money. It's really often, very often because on a deep subconscious level, it doesn't feel safe for you to receive that amount of money. And another ways in which you can sabotage is you'll just forget to follow up with people who have shown interest. You'll discount your offer even if you don't want to do it. You'll just suddenly slash your price. Suddenly you'll feel like procrastinating. You need to do the thing, but you can't bring yourself to do the thing. There's a lot of ways it can show up, right? So this is your nervous system ultimately trying to keep you safe in the place that it knows that it's comfortable in which is whatever income you're able to make right now. That's like your energetic comfort level of money, right? And anything more than that is unfamiliar and scary. And so your body isn't safe in that space. And so basically, safe just means familiar and 10 K months, or 20 K months, or 30 K months, whatever the dream is that might not be familiar yet to you. And that's where there's going to be like this mismatch of you're not going to be able to hold that energy. So let's talk about holding the energy of a six-figure business owner, right now. I'm going to share some powerful ways you can do that today. No matter where you are, where you're at. And if you already at 10 k, then let's say 20 K a month, whatever it is that you're wanting. How to hold the energy of that version of you ultimately. So the first thing I would say is you want to regulate your nervous system to receiving more. You want to normalize more money, make it normal. There's so many ways that we have conditioned ourselves to believe this certain amount of money is safe and we need to break that. We need to recondition ourselves and basically regulate our nervous system to receive more. This might sound woowoo, but it's really quite practical and anyone can do it. So you want to start practicing receiving. Receiving not just money, but you want to start receiving compliments, support, gifts. If people want to pay for things for you. This is a very clear sign if you get really uncomfortable when someone compliments you and you reject it. Or if someone tries to support you and help you and you shut down. Or if someone tries to pay for your lunch or your coffee and you're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'll get it. I'll get it. Don't do it. And you panic. That is just a little area of your life where you can be conscious of and you can say, you know what? I'm going to practice receiving in always right. I'm going to be okay with receiving things and being worthy of that thing because that's quite somatic that goes into your body. You can literally do EFT, tapping, there's so many things you can do to help regulate your nervous system to receive more, I would put my hand on my heart, deep breaths and just say a mantra like, it's safe for me to receive, it's safe for me to receive. You can make a little alter in your space and put it up there and something you read every day. It is safe for me to receive. And just consciously working on it like that. It's really practical. It sounds really woowoo. If you're not spiritual woowoo, just do it in a super practical way. Do it in whatever way works for you. Just start being conscious of it and learning to receive. That's going to be big. So the next thing is you want to start shifting on an identity level. Your identity is basically your energy. And it's paramount. It is essential. It will determine your results in your business. So the first thing I would be saying is, stop running your business or showing up in your business as an employee or as a teacher with a side hustle. That mindset is not the energy to hold. And I had this for the first two years of my business. I would identify as a teacher because I was an ESL teacher and I said I had a side gig, I had like a side hustle. I had a thing I was working on the side. And people would ask me what I do and I'll be like, oh, I'm an ESL teacher, but I work on the side with this certain passion project. And I decided around two years that I was like, no, I'm just going to own it. I'm going to step into who I actually want to be. And I was like, I'm an entrepreneur. I run my own business. And I felt uncomfortable saying it. I really felt uncomfortable saying it. I felt a little bit like a fraud at the time. Even though I had made some money, I still just felt like a fraud. I was like, who am I to think that I'm an entrepreneur who runs their own business? It felt foreign to me. But I kept introducing myself like that. And that was massive because eventually within a couple of months of just being in that space, seeing myself in that light, identifying myself in that way. I started to move very differently in my business and I had my first hundred thousand dollars year. When I started to do that. It unlocked a new level of impact and income for me. All from just identity. I wasn't doing anything massively new. I was doing the same thing. I was just identifying myself differently, seeing myself differently, and because of that, I was moving differently just in my energy. I was just making better decisions. I was running my business like a business owner rather than a teacher with a side hustle. So if you want six-figure results, you need to start being the version of you who runs a six-figure business. And that means deciding that you are no longer just a teacher or just whatever you identify as an employee or whatever. Whatever job you have with a little online business on the side. You are a CEO now. You are the brand, you are the product. You are the creator of your life. You are the greatest manifester of your life. You are a boss. So I want you to start seeing yourself in that way. So small things. When people ask you what you do, introduce yourself. Obviously you're not going to be like, I'm a CEO boss bitch. Obviously you're not going to do that, but you can be like, I run my own, whatever business I'm helping X, Y, Z. I'm a somatic coach who runs their own business. I'm a premium English coach for whatever, whatever. And I help X, Y, Z, do X, Y, Z. I run my own business and start introducing yourself that way. That's going to be big. And even do some journaling practices of who you are. The new version of you and just repeatedly declaring this version of you. How you operate, how you move, how you think, how you make decisions. Just start journaling out what that looks like. And then whatever you're writing out start acting on it now. So if you're like, I am a six-figure business owner, I make decisions fast. I trust my intuition. I make time for moving my body. I don't spend time with people who drain me. When you write that stuff down, go and practice it. Go and actually do it. Go do it right now. Go be that person right now. Start making decisions like that version of you exist right now. And it might feel foreign for a bit until it doesn't. And that's just when you've evolved. That's when your identity is just stepped into that next level and that old identity dies or falls away. So I want you to step into that version of you today. And the third thing is to create daily energetic anchors. So money responds to your energy. Who you are being in the world, right? It also responds to clarity, consistency, certainty. So I want to you to ask yourself these questions. How does six-figure me start the day. Okay? How do I start the day if I was earning six-figures? Okay. What does she believe about her offers? What do I think about my offers and the impact it has on the world? How does she feel when she shows up online to help people and creates content? How does she feel? Is she in her power or is she doubting herself? Write what it feels like six-figure you showing up online. Whenever you write out, I want you then to visualize her journal, her dress, talk like her, okay? I want you to become that version of you. And yes, there might be an element of, I wouldn't say faking it. But it's just this area of you're not maybe a hundred percent confident in that version of you yet, but just by practicing it becomes your new normal. I've done this before. I had a little ritual where I would tap into my future self. And it was me in like 10 years time. And I would visualize what I would look like, what I was wearing, where I was living my values, the amount of money I was making, how happy I was, my emotional state, I just visualized who I was. And I would just ask that version of me as a mentor. Like I became my own mentor, my 10 year version of me living my best life, achieving all the things that I want. I would ask her, what does she need from me today? And she would tell me what I need to do more of, what I need to be more of. And it's almost like you're guiding yourself. Your future self that magnetic ideal self is just pulling you forward into becoming her. And it would help because it would give clarity on how I wasn't living in alignment with what I was saying I wanted. I see that all the time people say this all the time. I want 10 K months. I want this, I want this, I want this, I want this. But they are not living at all as the version of themselves who can hold that wealth. They're not operating at that level. They're not thinking at that level. They're penny pinching. They're stressing about money the entire time. They are not investing in mentorship courses, coaching. They are spending money on things that are not going to make them grow. They are complaining. The way that they are living is absolutely not in alignment with someone who makes that kind of money. That's the starting place. It can go as big as you want it to go. That is something so important. You want to step into that energy of the version of you who makes that money now. And if there's incongruence in who you are being, and the goals that you have and the money you want to receive, you're going to sabotage. There's going to be stuff that you do that limits the money coming in. Your job is not only to learn strategy as a business owner, which I love, strategy. Strategy is probably one of my zones of genius. I would say strategy and intuition. Just using intuition and moving with my intuition is a zone of genius and helping my clients do that as well. So I'm very big on strategy, but your energy, your identity is paramount. Your strategy can't outperform your energy. I've seen people with no strategy, but have the most magnetic energy, the most incredible confidence, the most conviction in what they want to do. And they make incredible money, and they just make up the strategy along as they go. But I've never seen someone where their energy is complete mismatch. They are not in that space of holding their energy and they are trying all the strategy in the world, and they're not getting anywhere. I see that all the time. So your job is to become the version of you who can hold the success you say you want, and that means regulating your nervous system, creating safety in that new thing, whatever that wealth number is for you. And shifting on an identity level. Those are absolutely paramount. Okay? Otherwise you will sabotage and there'll be all these ways in which you do it that you won't even be conscious of, and you will struggle to attract what it is you want. Even if you don't realize it. So I really want you to change that, and you can start with these simple shifts that I shared with you today. And it's amazing when you do this work, just even that future self. And I have this in my Growth Accelerator program, a future self meditation where you literally vision yourself and you map out this version of you. And you become that version of you. It's so impactful when you do this work. I hope you enjoyed this episode. And keep your eyes peeled from my classes to Cashed up live training that's coming soon so we can go deep and connect face to face while on Zoom at least. And as I said, I always just want to help you create a business that doesn't just pay you but expand you. I believe business is one of the most incredible, expansive personal development journeys and spiritual journeys of all time. And that is the magic of it. I mean, making the money is magical, but becoming the version of yourself, which you just love and are so proud of, is so, so amazing as well. I hope you have an amazing day, and I will chat to you soon. Bye. Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode. If you love what you heard today, then be sure to share it with me by leaving a five star review so I can continue delivering these goodies. If you aren't already following me on social media, then come tune into some daily inspiration on Instagram by following @_digiteach_ or visiting my website @ digiteach.biz. I appreciate you so much, and I can't wait to connect with you in the next episode. In the meantime, go create a business and life you love.