April 11, 2025 • 33 mins
Join host Mary Gaul in this empowering episode of the Leap to Success Podcast as she welcomes Colleen Biggs, a seasoned entrepreneur, visionary leader, and business advisor with over 25 years of experience. Colleen has launched and guided 365 businesses to success and continues to empower entrepreneurs to create financial abundance and live with purpose.
They discuss Colleen’s inspiring entrepreneurial leap, her expertise in building successful businesses, and her passion for creating opportunities through community and collaboration. Colleen also shares valuable insights on scaling a business, dropping the ego to seek advice, and building a personal and professional network that truly supports your growth.
If you're ready to take bold leaps and elevate your entrepreneurial mindset, this episode is filled with actionable advice and heartfelt inspiration!
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Hello and welcome to the Leap to Successpodcast where we highlight incredible women
entrepreneurs who are taking bold leaps inbusiness and in life.
I'm your host Mary Gull and I believe thatsuccess is built through connection,
contribution, and celebration.
In each episode, we bring you inspiringstories, expert insights, and actionable
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strategies to help you grow and thrive as asolopreneur or an entrepreneur.
Let's dive into today's conversation.
It is my utmost delight and honor to haveColleen Biggs on the show.
Colleen is a seasoned entrepreneur, not meaningshe's old, but she's got lots of experience.
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Right?
So a seasoned entrepreneur and business adviserwith over twenty five years of experience.
She's helped to launch over three sixty fivebusinesses.
Lots of experience there.
She has a passion for empowering entrepreneursto make money.
With a background in franchising, including hertime with The Little Jim and now franchising
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Phoenix Drone Pros, she enjoys guiding smallbusiness owners to expand their influence,
generate more revenue, and achieve financialabundance.
As a visionary leader and business advisor,Colleen is also dedicated to helping leaders
build thriving connections.
Through her transformative masterclass andlocal Empower and Elephant conferences, which
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I'm attending in a few weeks, She empowerswomen to unleash their profit potential by
building their net worth directly through theirnetworks.
Colleen, thank you for being on the show.
Colleen and I have known each other for acouple of years and as many of you know I
purchased the Leap for Ladies community fromColleen.
She founded that and it's just an amazing groupof women.
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So Colleen tell us and our listeners whatyou're up to now.
You know, you talked about making bold leaps.
I think
that was how you started off the, the showtoday.
And I just felt this like tinge in my body likeI am one of those people making bold leaps.
Yes.
You know, and I feel like we're either in themiddle of the leap, we're thinking about making
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the leap, or some of us have just landed on theother side and couldn't believe that we made
the leap and we landed on both of our feet.
Right?
Right.
Right.
Gosh, I'm making it happen.
So I was one of those people that landed, youknow, in the last, I would say, three to five
years because seven years ago, I took the bigleap out of corporate America working with the
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little gym, retired and decided to become anentrepreneur.
And I feel like I'm almost in that place todaybecause it's like full circle.
Then I was scared and I went through all of thestuff I had to go through with.
Can I do this?
Am I really worthy for it?
Can I make this happen?
And then you just go and you just go and you doit.
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And then you build and you build and you build.
And then you're like, oh, holy crap.
I did it and I'm doing it and this is great.
And then you reevaluate and get rid of thingsthat, you know, and you kinda back and
reevaluate and get rid of things that maybe Idon't need to be doing this anymore.
I want to try something different This programisn't something that anyone really wants or
there's not a demand for it.
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So, we're constantly organic changing, right?
And then I got to a pivotal moment which youknew which was reaching out to you to say, this
has been something that I do not want to walkaway from.
I've built this community.
There's amazing women.
It's about spotlighting them.
How can we keep this legacy going?
That was such an honor to hand the baton off tosomeone like you, Mary, to know that I didn't
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have to say, sorry, ladies, my life is so fullnow with other businesses and I had no idea
seven years ago when I retired, I'd be sittinghere today.
Yes.
So it's so exciting to be starting somethingnew, to have bought a new business that we're
expanding our second trailers coming out of thepainters.
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My husband and I just talked about it today.
We've gotta get it on the schedule for us toget all of this stuff inside of the trailer and
and get it ready.
We have like to a week and a half to get itready for a double booking and so we're down to
the wire and I I love that and then there's aside of me because that's building, right?
That business is already going and I get tojust come in now and just I'm a visionary.
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I love to build.
That's what I love to do.
I have to be building something all the timebut on the franchise side of the drone company.
So, we have Phoenix Drone Pros Local.
Now, we have the franchise side that I reallystarted working on last summer and couldn't
devote enough time to it.
And that was when that moment happened whereGod was really like, here's what you need to
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do.
I don't know why I'm supposed to work in mybusinesses with my husband.
Why I'm supposed to start this franchise?
Why I'm building the catering company?
I can't answer that today because when Godasked me to build the women's group and when
God asked me to do all of these amazing thingsto help women, was like, no.
And I was resistant.
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But I look back over the seven years and I'mlike, wow.
Yeah.
I'm so glad I said yes.
So I'm saying yes, scared yes freaked out Yes,am I going to run out of money?
Yes, I don't know what's going to happen butI'm trusting my gut and I'm trusting my
promptings and I'm trusting that when the rightperson comes across my path, they're there for
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a reason.
I need to listen and I need to fill a lot ofknowledge and resources in my calendars every
week.
And that looks very different than it lookedfor me in 2024.
Right.
So I'm in a new endeavor right now.
That's of, that's me in a nutshell.
I love it.
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I love it.
So in your bio, say you helped launch threesixty five businesses, right?
So between you and your husband and your kids,have five or six businesses maybe, I don't
know.
So tell our listeners kind of because I justlove the variety of the businesses that you are
in.
So tell our listeners a little bit about eachone of the businesses that you're a part of.
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Yes, so two years ago we bought a cateringbusiness and that catering business that we
purchased is pizza catering.
And we cater to brides and weddings mainly, andwe do private events as well and, you know,
bridal showers and baby showers and things likethat, but it's awesome.
It's this horse trailer and you bring it to anevent, and it we just love pizza but I had
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never learned how to build a business in thecatering company or the catering industry in
the wedding industry So, I'm doing everythingthat I've taught people to do when they start a
business, whether we bought the businessalready up and running or not.
I listened to my own advice and I'm reachingout to people in the industry.
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And when I go to, these expos, I talk to DJs, Italk to other caterers, I talk to everyone in
the industry and I say, hey, you've been herelonger than me.
What's your advice?
What should I do?
Where where should we be playing?
Where should we not be playing?
What are kind of the rules of the industry?
Teach me.
And so it's a lot of learning and doing.
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So we're doing that right now.
We have the drone company.
We turned 10 years old this year, and wedecided to franchise that last year.
Thank you.
So now I'm playing with all these bigconstruction companies, commercial real estate,
plumbing companies doing commercials because wedo a lot of commercials and movies and events.
So we're all over the place and that is fun.
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It's fun because I get to network with a lot ofdifferent people in a lot of different
industries.
So that's been a lot of fun.
The biggest challenge is that new kind ofstarting franchising and any franchise company
will tell you that is a company launching as afranchisor.
They're like, ugh, the first two years sucks asbeing a franchisor.
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And it does because you're in the fee stage,the FEE stage.
Just pay money out, pay money out, pay moneyout, and you're just waiting for it to build.
And then once you get the ball rolling like anycompany, then the then the next person's like,
oh yeah, and then they join and they join andthey join.
And then before you know it, you know, youstart building out that franchise, but it takes
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a lot of faith, a lot of belief, a lot of hope,and a lot of money to get started.
Right?
And those are all of the things that can makeyou sick to your stomach.
It's like morning sickness for a straight year.
Right?
It's how you feel.
I own the Empower and Elevate Conference brand.
That's a local brand here in Arizona.
I started that two years ago.
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I throw a conference I throw conferences forwomen called Empower and Elevate.
It's really about just networking like you saidin my bio.
I believe that when we bring people together,that really helps build their network, which
essentially builds their net worth.
Yes.
I'm a direct product of that and everythingI've done and everything I've built was all
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through networking and connection and makingconnections So, that's wonderful because we
have speakers and round table and vendors.
So, it's an opportunity for women to bespotlighted if they want and be a sponsor, be a
table vendor, be a speaker and also it's justfor women who want to attend network and just
kind of walk into a room where maybe they don'tknow anybody and I love that because it's a new
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room for them.
I'm excited to come because I've known callingfor a couple of years now and I know many of
the ladies through the Leap for Ladiescommunity that are in Arizona.
I'm based in Colorado, so I've never met any ofthem in person.
We just know each other on Zoom.
I'm so excited to come and be in the same roomwith everybody and get to meet more of the LEAP
for Ladies members.
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Yeah, we're so happy to have you.
It's a way for me to give you so much moreexposure to the women that I'm around locally,
for you to really connect with them.
And then for me to be able to have that thirdparty referral to say, like, here she is.
Yeah.
You know, she exists.
I'm a real person.
You all should join
the community.
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And here's the other thing, you know, whenpeople say, how have you ever launched three
sixty five businesses?
Their mind goes to me alone.
I launched three sixty five businesses.
That never happens.
I just want to tell everyone out there today,even you know, millionaires that own multiple
businesses that they buy them.
It's years over time, you know Yeah.
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That in decades that they're buying thesebusinesses selling these businesses That's
really kind of what we've done.
But where we and I just sold the business toyou last year, where we're at right now is when
you talk about 300 businesses, these arebusiness owners that I worked with in the
trenches from scratch of them.
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Okay, I want to be a business owner and here weAnd so that's where I honed and that was for
twenty straight years.
I honed all my skill sets in learning how tonegotiate for a lease for a brick and mortar,
how to staff, how to market, how to get, youknow, how to find your avatar, how to hire
teams, how to train teams.
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I learned everything, design, everything thatyou can think about from the standpoint of
launching a business in the trenches.
So I've never been to a school that taught me.
I've never been certified as a business coachor advisor, but I just kind of fell into the
position in 02/2001.
And that's just really what I've done for allof those years.
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That's that was kind of what I got lit upabout.
So Some of those businesses were extremelysuccessful and they went on and and opened many
many more businesses and some of them were not.
And I will tell you the number one factor wasthe owner.
The number one factor was the business owner.
Everything trickles from the top down.
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When they were willing to give up control, whenthey were willing to delegate, when they were
willing to train great staff and trust them andnot micromanage, when they were willing to
follow a system you know, and say, this is whatworks, this is what works and not feel like,
well, I know best.
It's like, Well, then why did you come to haveus help you do this?
Right.
So those are the main factors.
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Those three factors were the main things that Isaw that either created success or crushed
them.
Everything.
Great advice and reminders that if we are outthere starting a business or for those people
that are thinking of taking that leap intoentrepreneurship, to be open.
And one of the things that you said earlier Ijust wanted to go back to because you said this
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multiple ways in the things we've talked aboutalready is really seeking advice and being open
to receive that advice and follow that adviceif it really resonates with you.
When you're going out to build a business andyou're working with your franchisees, you said
you're seeking advice.
When you go to the catering expos, you're outthere talking to people and saying, You've been
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doing this longer than I have.
So really coming at that new venture with thissense of being a student and wanting to learn.
And I think that shows up in everything thatyou do because you can see your passion for
learning and building as part of the processthat lights you up.
So for our people that are listening out thereand they're kind of on the precipice of this
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and they're like, I don't know if I have allthe information I need.
I don't know if I have all the skills I need.
What kind of information, what kind of advicewould you give to those people?
I love the word curiosity.
And when I built my vision board last year,first of all, I would say you have to have
goals and you have to have a vision and youhave to create a path to get there.
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The only way to do that is to start withclarity.
And if you can't find clarity on your own,you've got to hire someone that can help you
get to that clarity.
Because on the outside, looking in, someoneelse can see that clarity and you can't.
Like, you're so in this frame.
Right?
You can't see it at all.
So you have to be curious.
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And I think you gotta drop the ego.
When I talk to some of these vendors and westart having longer conversations and then they
start finding out more about me and my past,they look at me and they're like, you've done
so much in your life.
Why would you ever even need a conversationwith me?
And because I'll give them business advice orsomething like that.
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And I'm like, because I know nothing about thisindustry.
Doesn't matter how much I know about business.
I know nothing about this industry, and I wannaplay in this industry and do it the right way.
And I go to people constantly drop the ego andsay, need help.
I don't know what to do.
I don't know who to connect with.
I don't know what's appropriate, what's notappropriate.
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If you are in a place where you're starting ina new industry or you've never done it before,
you know, think about this.
I look at it like this and there's so manyfacets to a business, but we are not meant to
build a business in a silo.
Companies don't build organizations in a silo.
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And if they did, and they're all their IT andmarketing and accounting and everything was in
silos and no one was talking to each other,they would have a major breakdown and a major
disconnect.
So think about that.
I talk with CPAs, bookkeepers, enrolled agents.
I talk to them about books, finances,accounting.
They're the ones I'm going to to get theknowledge to learn, and they're the experts.
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So it drives me crazy when when I'm looking forthat type of, you know, advice and someone's
looking back at me like, oh, well, you don'tneed that advice because to look at all that
you've done or built and I'm like, no, no, no,no, no.
That is not this.
Yes.
I think we need to remember that I am an expertin so in specific areas of things that are my
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skill sets that I do really, really well soeasily.
But that does not mean that I know what thecrap I'm supposed to do with a balance sheet,
how I'm supposed to position things in mybookkeeping, how to, you know, do the
transactions.
There's so much that I don't know and there arethings I'm not willing to really spend the time
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to learn because I know if I can allow someoneto I delegate a lot.
So that book, Who Not How, I think is awonderful book, for anyone out there that needs
to learn how to delegate.
Meaning if you're trying to scale, you've gotto pull yourself out of the business.
That's the only way you can scale because youonly have so many hours.
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So you've got to duplicate your hours, whichmeans you have to have a team.
You can start with a VA or something like that.
But then you're probably going to need abookkeeper and an attorney and a marketer.
And I could go on and on and on with all thedifferent positions of your team.
Right.
Need to have, but you have to have that or youcan't scale and grow.
You cannot scale and grow if you don't havethat.
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Exactly.
Exactly.
So this is what I love working withentrepreneurs for as well.
Right?
And being that outside set of eyes and thatthought partner with business owners because as
an entrepreneur, we sometimes get so focused inour business that we can't really see the
forest or the trees almost sometimes, right?
That happened to me when I started my firstbusiness.
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I had helped other businesses grow and marketand do all these things.
But when it came to growing my own business, Iwas so focused on just serving my clients and
getting the next client.
I couldn't figure out how to do that and how togrow past myself.
So I needed outside sources.
I found a business coach.
I started taking workshops.
I joined a peer advisory board.
So it really does make a difference.
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And no matter what level you're talking tosomebody at, we all can learn from each other.
There's so much that every entrepreneur islearning out there every day in the
conversations they're having, in the blogsthey're reading, in the podcasts they're
listening to.
We're all learning so much every day.
And so just being open to share thatinformation with other people and receive that
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information when it's shared with us.
That's the other thing about dropping the ego alittle bit.
Love that, love that.
So I have another question for you, Colleen.
So we both believe that success isn't justabout business, it's about joy and fulfillment.
So what is something that truly lights you upin the work that you do and or in your personal
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life?
You know I really think the thing that lightsme up the most is I love, I, I love to curate a
community for people, safe spaces for peopleand everywhere I go.
I think I just do it unconsciously, you know,create community.
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It could be just with a group of three or fourpeople.
I tend to bring people together.
People get a little closer.
They tend to drop, you know, all of the guardsthat they have up and and really feel like
they're in this safe space.
So, it's just unconsciously something I do andlove to do, but nothing makes me happier, first
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of all, than, seeing my family be healthy andhappy.
Yeah.
And then that extends out to people that I workwith.
You know, why I love franchising so much andwhy I'm putting myself through this really has
to do with there are so many people right nowsitting in the corporate world or getting ready
to retire, and they do not have the money thatthey need to support themselves.
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Yeah.
They just don't.
They're not able to make it, and they're notable to get another raise or move up the ladder
anymore.
And the people that are retiring are not gonnahave the money that they need to retire
anymore.
And I just look at the offerings of franchisingand how wonderful that is that I can help
support them and build a business that they canretire with, that they can leave corporate
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America and have the freedoms with income andtime with their with their family.
And that to me just feels so yummy that that'swhy I'm so passionate about it.
You know, I've always for for for decades now,a century, I've been helping people, launch
businesses.
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And and I've seen people barely get a loan, noteven be able to afford it to to retiring a
millionaire after they sold five of theirstores
Yeah.
And so.
Yeah.
Those changes I've seen in people along the wayit's it just feels like wow.
I am so honored that I had the opportunity tobe part of that and that I was along for the
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ride.
And that's how it feels to me.
You know, it doesn't feel like hard work.
It just feels like, wow, I'm honored that theychose me.
They chose us.
They chose this brand, and that I get to workwith them to help them create success in their
life.
That there's just no other feeling.
Yeah, I love that.
I love that.
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And you mentioned this multiple times throughour conversation today, but collaboration and
community are really key to growing a businessand having just a fulfilling life, right?
We have our groups of girlfriends and just ourcommunity that we're part of.
So how has surrounding yourself with the rightpeople helped you to grow and helped you to
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take some of those leaps that you've made inyour career?
I have the girlfriends that are in some of mynetworking groups that I choose to go to lunch
with so that while I'm sitting there, I canjust cry.
Yeah.
And say, I just don't know if I can do this.
What if I can't?
What if this doesn't work out?
What if I've spent all this money and then I,it just doesn't go anywhere and then I feel
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like I've failed and they just always know theright things to say, right?
Yeah.
So, I I think we need people like that in ourlife that isn't necessarily a coach that we're
paying.
I think we need that direction and we need thattype of mentorship but we also need the people
in our lives that look at us and say, are youkidding?
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Like Yeah.
I I would bet on you every time because weforget how awesome we are when we are
surrounded with the mind.
I always call it the mind melding that'shappening where you're just like, I don't think
I can do this and we start spiraling and then,I love the communities and sometimes I'm just
members of community because I love the feel ofthe tribe.
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I just want to be to make friends so I canrefer business to them so I can connect them
with people that I know.
So, a lot of it is because I want to be inservice and I want to use their services and
then, some of it is because I need thoseindividuals that can see me at my worst and
will still love me.
Yes.
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Yes.
That is so important.
So I call it my business besties.
Right?
So I have really close tight girlfriends whoare not in business for themselves, and I go to
them in different ways than I go to my businessbestie girlfriends who are entrepreneurs and
they can relate to me in different ways.
But all of those people in our communities, inwhatever way we get to connect with people, are
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so important to us.
Just being lifted up and sometimes when you'relike me Colleen and a lot of our listeners
might be this way too, where we're the peoplethat are always filling everybody else up.
And so we need to find those people that aregoing to lift us up and fill our buckets as
well.
And so it's really important that you findthose people in your tribe, whether that
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hopefully you can come to explore Leap forLadies with us or come to the Elevate and
Relate Comfort.
Just getting in a room full of women who areout there and realizing that we're not the only
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ones that are going through this.
Each one of us is struggling with something inour business or something going on in our
lives.
We all have dynamic fluid lives going on withlots of things happening, and we're not the
only ones.
So getting in a room where we can have theseconversations I think is just so powerful.
So I love that you created Leap for Ladies andand these conferences and all the other
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gatherings that you were able to do so that wecan get together and just have these
experiences and make that connection, thosedeeper connections.
You know, had the opportunity to speak, on astage at NABO for people that don't know what
that is.
It's National Association of Women BusinessOwners.
It's national.
And I was asked to speak on partnerships and Ichallenged every lady in the room to say,
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you're powerful, you're strong, you'rebeautiful.
I get it.
We've been proving it from the beginning oftime.
Proving it.
Right?
We have something to prove and that weighs onus.
It is a weight.
We have something to prove.
And I said, what if tonight you just folded thecape nicely by your bed and got a nice peaceful
rest and woke up tomorrow and didn't put itback on?
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And the the faces in the room were like, what?
Yeah.
What?
And I said, if you have the right partnerships,the right people in your life, the right people
you've you've delegated things to, theresources that are there out there fighting for
you, helping you, guiding you.
If we have those people in our lives, we don'tneed to feel like that we've gotta strap it
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around our throats every single day.
Mhmm.
To
prove to to today, I can do more.
Yes.
Yes.
That was that was really the message and somaybe that message today lands with someone
that maybe if you didn't have to prove that youcould do more, and then you're just out there
doing your thing and putting the people aroundyou that you need, we're not meant to build a
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business in a silo.
We need each other, we need community, it's whyLeap for Ladies exists.
We need other people that are doing what we'redoing because they get it.
They get it.
Yes, yes.
And one of your talks you've done, thetrainings you've done for Leap for Ladies, and
I've heard you mention this phrase many, manytimes in our conversations, is your network is
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your net worth, right?
And so that comes back to the connections thatwe get to make, And really that does empower
you to whether you're in the corporate worldand you have a network but you need to build an
entrepreneurial network, Or you're anentrepreneur somewhere in your business and
you're feeling a little alone because it can bekind of lonely and we get in our heads
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sometimes as entrepreneurs.
Really building that network to build our networth.
So talk to our listeners just a little bitabout that concept.
Yeah it's my favorite and I call it buildingyour social capital and you really get to
deposit on this on a regular basis and oursocial capital comes from you know when we plug
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in to individuals that make us feel good andenergize us, but it really is about who you
know, what you know, and who knows you.
And the what you know piece, we've already gotthat down.
We know what we know and that kind of reallystarts the stepping stone for you.
Then when you start meeting a bunch of people,it's who you know.
Right?
Like, why know that person?
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I know that you can start connecting people.
But then when you get into the the this is thebig moneymaker.
This is the big net worth bucket, which is whoknows you The who knows you bucket is what I
talked about of building those relationshipswith people around you so that they're out
there activating for you.
They're out there they're out there being yourraving fan.
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They're talking to other people about you.
They're saying would be the best to speak atthis conference.
You should get to know her.
I'm gonna connect you with Coleen because she'stop of mind.
And then before you know it, I'll give you anexample.
I just met with someone today for lunch.
They connect you with six other people.
Those six people become customers or connectyou with another person, whether it's personal
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or in your business life, that is your networth.
All of that personal and business, those thingsare your net worth, whether it's personal
health, a connection for you to give one to oneof your kids, for your grandchild, or a
connection for you that's gonna get you aclient in your business.
So all of these things, you know, they say it'swho you know.
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I think it's who knows you.
That's where the money is.
So the we need to be building these socialbuckets on a regular basis.
Those are the most important buckets that webuild.
And all of that comes from being out there,nurturing contacts, sitting with people,
breaking bread with people, havingconversations, meeting them for coffee,
whatever it takes.
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We cannot be so busy, like you said it,fulfilling, you know, with clients and getting
more clients that we forget that we need tonurture relationships.
Yes.
Yes.
I love that, I love that, and I just love it.
I was in a networking group this morning, andI've been a part of this group.
I just love this group.
Two of the women in there said, looking attheir numbers for last year, I am their number
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one referral source.
And I was just like, I always refer people tothem because I know they're going to be so well
taken care of.
It makes me look like a hero when I can connectsomebody to somebody else that can solve a
problem and do it well and do it with love andcare and attention.
So It's so powerful when you have this greatnetwork of people that you can refer to so that
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you become known as the person that can connectanybody to anybody.
If somebody needs a connection for something, Ilove it when they call me and they say, You
know everybody.
Who do you know that does this?
It's such a great feeling.
And I know you have that network as well to tapinto.
I just think that's amazing, and I love doingthat.
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And I know you love doing that too, and I'm soglad that you're out there in the world
building those relationships and helping usbuild our net worth through our network.
Colleen, I know you're working on the dronefranchise, and so how do people or people in
the Phoenix area that might wanna have you comeand cater their event?
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What's the best way for people to kind of getahold of you at this point?
You know, I would say anyone that's in thePhoenix area, you know, that might be a company
looking for a commercial or if you're acommercial real estate agent, if you're a
nonprofit that needs a commercial built for,you know, to for donations.
We do events.
We do movies.
We do drone training.
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Phoenixdronepros.com is the number one place togo for that.
The franchising opportunity, just click on thefranchise opportunity for anyone out of the
state in another state that would love to havethat opportunity, to work with someone like
myself to build a a business for yourself ifyou're looking to retire or get out of
corporate America for sure.
That's the best place to reach me.
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And of course, if you ever want to learn moreabout me, it's just easy to Google Colleen
Biggs.
You're going to find out all that I've done inthe past, where I've been.
I also have a website ColleenBiggs.net.
If someone is like, hey, who is this girl?
You know, you can find me there as well but I'mplaying in the industry of Phoenix Drone Pro
these days.
So, if if anyone is looking to, hey, I'd loveto come to conferences.
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That's great.
I didn't know she did that in the Arizona area.
You can always go toEmpowerandElevateConference.com.
We have another one coming up in November bythe time this podcast is released.
We will have already had March.
So March and November, we have them twice ayear.
So, we would love to, you know, have you comeplay in a room that maybe you've never been in
and ladies fly in from out of state.
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So, it's a really fun day all day, nine to sixswag lunch, champagne.
We've got you covered.
Wonderful.
Wonderful.
And for all of our listeners, no matter whatplatform you're listening on or watching us on
YouTube, we will have all of all of Colleen'scontact information in the show notes, so you
can easily find that if you just look in theshow notes from wherever you're listening to
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the podcast.
So that is a wrap today on our episode of theSleep to Success podcast.
I hope you found inspiration, motivation, and afew golden nuggets to take with you on your
journey.
If you love this conversation, please be sureto subscribe so that you never miss an episode.
If today's guest, the amazing Colleen Biggs,resonated with you, please show her some love
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Remember, can find all of her contactinformation in the show notes wherever you're
listening or watching to the watching thepodcast.
If you wanna go deeper and join us inside theLEAP community, you where you'll find even more
resources, connections, and opportunities toshow up and grow, visit us at
successmagnified.com/leapforladies to learnmore.
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And until next time, keep taking bold leaps,contributing your gifts, and celebrating your
successes and building your net worth.
Right?
Your network.
So thanks again, Colleen, for being a guesttoday.
It's been my pleasure to have you on the show.
I'm honored, Mary.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Hello and welcome to the Leap to Successpodcast where we highlight incredible women
entrepreneurs who are taking bold leaps inbusiness and in life.
I'm your host Mary Gull and I believe thatsuccess is built through connection,
contribution, and celebration.
In each episode, we bring you inspiringstories, expert insights, and actionable
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strategies to help you grow and thrive as asolopreneur or an entrepreneur.
Let's dive into today's conversation.
It is my utmost delight and honor to haveColleen Biggs on the show.
Colleen is a seasoned entrepreneur, not meaningshe's old, but she's got lots of experience.
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Right?
So a seasoned entrepreneur and business adviserwith over twenty five years of experience.
She's helped to launch over three sixty fivebusinesses.
Lots of experience there.
She has a passion for empowering entrepreneursto make money.
With a background in franchising, including hertime with The Little Jim and now franchising
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Phoenix Drone Pros, she enjoys guiding smallbusiness owners to expand their influence,
generate more revenue, and achieve financialabundance.
As a visionary leader and business advisor,Colleen is also dedicated to helping leaders
build thriving connections.
Through her transformative masterclass andlocal Empower and Elephant conferences, which
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I'm attending in a few weeks, She empowerswomen to unleash their profit potential by
building their net worth directly through theirnetworks.
Colleen, thank you for being on the show.
Colleen and I have known each other for acouple of years and as many of you know I
purchased the Leap for Ladies community fromColleen.
She founded that and it's just an amazing groupof women.
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So Colleen tell us and our listeners whatyou're up to now.
You know, you talked about making bold leaps.
I think
that was how you started off the, the showtoday.
And I just felt this like tinge in my body likeI am one of those people making bold leaps.
Yes.
You know, and I feel like we're either in themiddle of the leap, we're thinking about making
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the leap, or some of us have just landed on theother side and couldn't believe that we made
the leap and we landed on both of our feet.
Right?
Right.
Right.
Gosh, I'm making it happen.
So I was one of those people that landed, youknow, in the last, I would say, three to five
years because seven years ago, I took the bigleap out of corporate America working with the
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little gym, retired and decided to become anentrepreneur.
And I feel like I'm almost in that place todaybecause it's like full circle.
Then I was scared and I went through all of thestuff I had to go through with.
Can I do this?
Am I really worthy for it?
Can I make this happen?
And then you just go and you just go and you doit.
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And then you build and you build and you build.
And then you're like, oh, holy crap.
I did it and I'm doing it and this is great.
And then you reevaluate and get rid of thingsthat, you know, and you kinda back and
reevaluate and get rid of things that maybe Idon't need to be doing this anymore.
I want to try something different This programisn't something that anyone really wants or
there's not a demand for it.
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So, we're constantly organic changing, right?
And then I got to a pivotal moment which youknew which was reaching out to you to say, this
has been something that I do not want to walkaway from.
I've built this community.
There's amazing women.
It's about spotlighting them.
How can we keep this legacy going?
That was such an honor to hand the baton off tosomeone like you, Mary, to know that I didn't
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have to say, sorry, ladies, my life is so fullnow with other businesses and I had no idea
seven years ago when I retired, I'd be sittinghere today.
Yes.
So it's so exciting to be starting somethingnew, to have bought a new business that we're
expanding our second trailers coming out of thepainters.
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My husband and I just talked about it today.
We've gotta get it on the schedule for us toget all of this stuff inside of the trailer and
and get it ready.
We have like to a week and a half to get itready for a double booking and so we're down to
the wire and I I love that and then there's aside of me because that's building, right?
That business is already going and I get tojust come in now and just I'm a visionary.
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I love to build.
That's what I love to do.
I have to be building something all the timebut on the franchise side of the drone company.
So, we have Phoenix Drone Pros Local.
Now, we have the franchise side that I reallystarted working on last summer and couldn't
devote enough time to it.
And that was when that moment happened whereGod was really like, here's what you need to
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do.
I don't know why I'm supposed to work in mybusinesses with my husband.
Why I'm supposed to start this franchise?
Why I'm building the catering company?
I can't answer that today because when Godasked me to build the women's group and when
God asked me to do all of these amazing thingsto help women, was like, no.
And I was resistant.
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But I look back over the seven years and I'mlike, wow.
Yeah.
I'm so glad I said yes.
So I'm saying yes, scared yes freaked out Yes,am I going to run out of money?
Yes, I don't know what's going to happen butI'm trusting my gut and I'm trusting my
promptings and I'm trusting that when the rightperson comes across my path, they're there for
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a reason.
I need to listen and I need to fill a lot ofknowledge and resources in my calendars every
week.
And that looks very different than it lookedfor me in 2024.
Right.
So I'm in a new endeavor right now.
That's of, that's me in a nutshell.
I love it.
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I love it.
So in your bio, say you helped launch threesixty five businesses, right?
So between you and your husband and your kids,have five or six businesses maybe, I don't
know.
So tell our listeners kind of because I justlove the variety of the businesses that you are
in.
So tell our listeners a little bit about eachone of the businesses that you're a part of.
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Yes, so two years ago we bought a cateringbusiness and that catering business that we
purchased is pizza catering.
And we cater to brides and weddings mainly, andwe do private events as well and, you know,
bridal showers and baby showers and things likethat, but it's awesome.
It's this horse trailer and you bring it to anevent, and it we just love pizza but I had
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never learned how to build a business in thecatering company or the catering industry in
the wedding industry So, I'm doing everythingthat I've taught people to do when they start a
business, whether we bought the businessalready up and running or not.
I listened to my own advice and I'm reachingout to people in the industry.
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And when I go to, these expos, I talk to DJs, Italk to other caterers, I talk to everyone in
the industry and I say, hey, you've been herelonger than me.
What's your advice?
What should I do?
Where where should we be playing?
Where should we not be playing?
What are kind of the rules of the industry?
Teach me.
And so it's a lot of learning and doing.
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So we're doing that right now.
We have the drone company.
We turned 10 years old this year, and wedecided to franchise that last year.
Thank you.
So now I'm playing with all these bigconstruction companies, commercial real estate,
plumbing companies doing commercials because wedo a lot of commercials and movies and events.
So we're all over the place and that is fun.
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It's fun because I get to network with a lot ofdifferent people in a lot of different
industries.
So that's been a lot of fun.
The biggest challenge is that new kind ofstarting franchising and any franchise company
will tell you that is a company launching as afranchisor.
They're like, ugh, the first two years sucks asbeing a franchisor.
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And it does because you're in the fee stage,the FEE stage.
Just pay money out, pay money out, pay moneyout, and you're just waiting for it to build.
And then once you get the ball rolling like anycompany, then the then the next person's like,
oh yeah, and then they join and they join andthey join.
And then before you know it, you know, youstart building out that franchise, but it takes
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a lot of faith, a lot of belief, a lot of hope,and a lot of money to get started.
Right?
And those are all of the things that can makeyou sick to your stomach.
It's like morning sickness for a straight year.
Right?
It's how you feel.
I own the Empower and Elevate Conference brand.
That's a local brand here in Arizona.
I started that two years ago.
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I throw a conference I throw conferences forwomen called Empower and Elevate.
It's really about just networking like you saidin my bio.
I believe that when we bring people together,that really helps build their network, which
essentially builds their net worth.
Yes.
I'm a direct product of that and everythingI've done and everything I've built was all
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through networking and connection and makingconnections So, that's wonderful because we
have speakers and round table and vendors.
So, it's an opportunity for women to bespotlighted if they want and be a sponsor, be a
table vendor, be a speaker and also it's justfor women who want to attend network and just
kind of walk into a room where maybe they don'tknow anybody and I love that because it's a new
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room for them.
I'm excited to come because I've known callingfor a couple of years now and I know many of
the ladies through the Leap for Ladiescommunity that are in Arizona.
I'm based in Colorado, so I've never met any ofthem in person.
We just know each other on Zoom.
I'm so excited to come and be in the same roomwith everybody and get to meet more of the LEAP
for Ladies members.
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Yeah, we're so happy to have you.
It's a way for me to give you so much moreexposure to the women that I'm around locally,
for you to really connect with them.
And then for me to be able to have that thirdparty referral to say, like, here she is.
Yeah.
You know, she exists.
I'm a real person.
You all should join
the community.
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And here's the other thing, you know, whenpeople say, how have you ever launched three
sixty five businesses?
Their mind goes to me alone.
I launched three sixty five businesses.
That never happens.
I just want to tell everyone out there today,even you know, millionaires that own multiple
businesses that they buy them.
It's years over time, you know Yeah.
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That in decades that they're buying thesebusinesses selling these businesses That's
really kind of what we've done.
But where we and I just sold the business toyou last year, where we're at right now is when
you talk about 300 businesses, these arebusiness owners that I worked with in the
trenches from scratch of them.
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Okay, I want to be a business owner and here weAnd so that's where I honed and that was for
twenty straight years.
I honed all my skill sets in learning how tonegotiate for a lease for a brick and mortar,
how to staff, how to market, how to get, youknow, how to find your avatar, how to hire
teams, how to train teams.
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I learned everything, design, everything thatyou can think about from the standpoint of
launching a business in the trenches.
So I've never been to a school that taught me.
I've never been certified as a business coachor advisor, but I just kind of fell into the
position in 02/2001.
And that's just really what I've done for allof those years.
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That's that was kind of what I got lit upabout.
So Some of those businesses were extremelysuccessful and they went on and and opened many
many more businesses and some of them were not.
And I will tell you the number one factor wasthe owner.
The number one factor was the business owner.
Everything trickles from the top down.
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When they were willing to give up control, whenthey were willing to delegate, when they were
willing to train great staff and trust them andnot micromanage, when they were willing to
follow a system you know, and say, this is whatworks, this is what works and not feel like,
well, I know best.
It's like, Well, then why did you come to haveus help you do this?
Right.
So those are the main factors.
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Those three factors were the main things that Isaw that either created success or crushed
them.
Everything.
Great advice and reminders that if we are outthere starting a business or for those people
that are thinking of taking that leap intoentrepreneurship, to be open.
And one of the things that you said earlier Ijust wanted to go back to because you said this
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multiple ways in the things we've talked aboutalready is really seeking advice and being open
to receive that advice and follow that adviceif it really resonates with you.
When you're going out to build a business andyou're working with your franchisees, you said
you're seeking advice.
When you go to the catering expos, you're outthere talking to people and saying, You've been
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doing this longer than I have.
So really coming at that new venture with thissense of being a student and wanting to learn.
And I think that shows up in everything thatyou do because you can see your passion for
learning and building as part of the processthat lights you up.
So for our people that are listening out thereand they're kind of on the precipice of this
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and they're like, I don't know if I have allthe information I need.
I don't know if I have all the skills I need.
What kind of information, what kind of advicewould you give to those people?
I love the word curiosity.
And when I built my vision board last year,first of all, I would say you have to have
goals and you have to have a vision and youhave to create a path to get there.
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The only way to do that is to start withclarity.
And if you can't find clarity on your own,you've got to hire someone that can help you
get to that clarity.
Because on the outside, looking in, someoneelse can see that clarity and you can't.
Like, you're so in this frame.
Right?
You can't see it at all.
So you have to be curious.
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And I think you gotta drop the ego.
When I talk to some of these vendors and westart having longer conversations and then they
start finding out more about me and my past,they look at me and they're like, you've done
so much in your life.
Why would you ever even need a conversationwith me?
And because I'll give them business advice orsomething like that.
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And I'm like, because I know nothing about thisindustry.
Doesn't matter how much I know about business.
I know nothing about this industry, and I wannaplay in this industry and do it the right way.
And I go to people constantly drop the ego andsay, need help.
I don't know what to do.
I don't know who to connect with.
I don't know what's appropriate, what's notappropriate.
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If you are in a place where you're starting ina new industry or you've never done it before,
you know, think about this.
I look at it like this and there's so manyfacets to a business, but we are not meant to
build a business in a silo.
Companies don't build organizations in a silo.
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And if they did, and they're all their IT andmarketing and accounting and everything was in
silos and no one was talking to each other,they would have a major breakdown and a major
disconnect.
So think about that.
I talk with CPAs, bookkeepers, enrolled agents.
I talk to them about books, finances,accounting.
They're the ones I'm going to to get theknowledge to learn, and they're the experts.
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So it drives me crazy when when I'm looking forthat type of, you know, advice and someone's
looking back at me like, oh, well, you don'tneed that advice because to look at all that
you've done or built and I'm like, no, no, no,no, no.
That is not this.
Yes.
I think we need to remember that I am an expertin so in specific areas of things that are my
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skill sets that I do really, really well soeasily.
But that does not mean that I know what thecrap I'm supposed to do with a balance sheet,
how I'm supposed to position things in mybookkeeping, how to, you know, do the
transactions.
There's so much that I don't know and there arethings I'm not willing to really spend the time
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to learn because I know if I can allow someoneto I delegate a lot.
So that book, Who Not How, I think is awonderful book, for anyone out there that needs
to learn how to delegate.
Meaning if you're trying to scale, you've gotto pull yourself out of the business.
That's the only way you can scale because youonly have so many hours.
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So you've got to duplicate your hours, whichmeans you have to have a team.
You can start with a VA or something like that.
But then you're probably going to need abookkeeper and an attorney and a marketer.
And I could go on and on and on with all thedifferent positions of your team.
Right.
Need to have, but you have to have that or youcan't scale and grow.
You cannot scale and grow if you don't havethat.
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Exactly.
Exactly.
So this is what I love working withentrepreneurs for as well.
Right?
And being that outside set of eyes and thatthought partner with business owners because as
an entrepreneur, we sometimes get so focused inour business that we can't really see the
forest or the trees almost sometimes, right?
That happened to me when I started my firstbusiness.
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I had helped other businesses grow and marketand do all these things.
But when it came to growing my own business, Iwas so focused on just serving my clients and
getting the next client.
I couldn't figure out how to do that and how togrow past myself.
So I needed outside sources.
I found a business coach.
I started taking workshops.
I joined a peer advisory board.
So it really does make a difference.
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And no matter what level you're talking tosomebody at, we all can learn from each other.
There's so much that every entrepreneur islearning out there every day in the
conversations they're having, in the blogsthey're reading, in the podcasts they're
listening to.
We're all learning so much every day.
And so just being open to share thatinformation with other people and receive that
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information when it's shared with us.
That's the other thing about dropping the ego alittle bit.
Love that, love that.
So I have another question for you, Colleen.
So we both believe that success isn't justabout business, it's about joy and fulfillment.
So what is something that truly lights you upin the work that you do and or in your personal
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life?
You know I really think the thing that lightsme up the most is I love, I, I love to curate a
community for people, safe spaces for peopleand everywhere I go.
I think I just do it unconsciously, you know,create community.
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It could be just with a group of three or fourpeople.
I tend to bring people together.
People get a little closer.
They tend to drop, you know, all of the guardsthat they have up and and really feel like
they're in this safe space.
So, it's just unconsciously something I do andlove to do, but nothing makes me happier, first
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of all, than, seeing my family be healthy andhappy.
Yeah.
And then that extends out to people that I workwith.
You know, why I love franchising so much andwhy I'm putting myself through this really has
to do with there are so many people right nowsitting in the corporate world or getting ready
to retire, and they do not have the money thatthey need to support themselves.
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Yeah.
They just don't.
They're not able to make it, and they're notable to get another raise or move up the ladder
anymore.
And the people that are retiring are not gonnahave the money that they need to retire
anymore.
And I just look at the offerings of franchisingand how wonderful that is that I can help
support them and build a business that they canretire with, that they can leave corporate
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America and have the freedoms with income andtime with their with their family.
And that to me just feels so yummy that that'swhy I'm so passionate about it.
You know, I've always for for for decades now,a century, I've been helping people, launch
businesses.
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And and I've seen people barely get a loan, noteven be able to afford it to to retiring a
millionaire after they sold five of theirstores
Yeah.
And so.
Yeah.
Those changes I've seen in people along the wayit's it just feels like wow.
I am so honored that I had the opportunity tobe part of that and that I was along for the
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ride.
And that's how it feels to me.
You know, it doesn't feel like hard work.
It just feels like, wow, I'm honored that theychose me.
They chose us.
They chose this brand, and that I get to workwith them to help them create success in their
life.
That there's just no other feeling.
Yeah, I love that.
I love that.
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And you mentioned this multiple times throughour conversation today, but collaboration and
community are really key to growing a businessand having just a fulfilling life, right?
We have our groups of girlfriends and just ourcommunity that we're part of.
So how has surrounding yourself with the rightpeople helped you to grow and helped you to
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take some of those leaps that you've made inyour career?
I have the girlfriends that are in some of mynetworking groups that I choose to go to lunch
with so that while I'm sitting there, I canjust cry.
Yeah.
And say, I just don't know if I can do this.
What if I can't?
What if this doesn't work out?
What if I've spent all this money and then I,it just doesn't go anywhere and then I feel
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like I've failed and they just always know theright things to say, right?
Yeah.
So, I I think we need people like that in ourlife that isn't necessarily a coach that we're
paying.
I think we need that direction and we need thattype of mentorship but we also need the people
in our lives that look at us and say, are youkidding?
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Like Yeah.
I I would bet on you every time because weforget how awesome we are when we are
surrounded with the mind.
I always call it the mind melding that'shappening where you're just like, I don't think
I can do this and we start spiraling and then,I love the communities and sometimes I'm just
members of community because I love the feel ofthe tribe.
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I just want to be to make friends so I canrefer business to them so I can connect them
with people that I know.
So, a lot of it is because I want to be inservice and I want to use their services and
then, some of it is because I need thoseindividuals that can see me at my worst and
will still love me.
Yes.
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Yes.
That is so important.
So I call it my business besties.
Right?
So I have really close tight girlfriends whoare not in business for themselves, and I go to
them in different ways than I go to my businessbestie girlfriends who are entrepreneurs and
they can relate to me in different ways.
But all of those people in our communities, inwhatever way we get to connect with people, are
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so important to us.
Just being lifted up and sometimes when you'relike me Colleen and a lot of our listeners
might be this way too, where we're the peoplethat are always filling everybody else up.
And so we need to find those people that aregoing to lift us up and fill our buckets as
well.
And so it's really important that you findthose people in your tribe, whether that
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hopefully you can come to explore Leap forLadies with us or come to the Elevate and
Relate Comfort.
Just getting in a room full of women who areout there and realizing that we're not the only
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ones that are going through this.
Each one of us is struggling with something inour business or something going on in our
lives.
We all have dynamic fluid lives going on withlots of things happening, and we're not the
only ones.
So getting in a room where we can have theseconversations I think is just so powerful.
So I love that you created Leap for Ladies andand these conferences and all the other
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gatherings that you were able to do so that wecan get together and just have these
experiences and make that connection, thosedeeper connections.
You know, had the opportunity to speak, on astage at NABO for people that don't know what
that is.
It's National Association of Women BusinessOwners.
It's national.
And I was asked to speak on partnerships and Ichallenged every lady in the room to say,
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you're powerful, you're strong, you'rebeautiful.
I get it.
We've been proving it from the beginning oftime.
Proving it.
Right?
We have something to prove and that weighs onus.
It is a weight.
We have something to prove.
And I said, what if tonight you just folded thecape nicely by your bed and got a nice peaceful
rest and woke up tomorrow and didn't put itback on?
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And the the faces in the room were like, what?
Yeah.
What?
And I said, if you have the right partnerships,the right people in your life, the right people
you've you've delegated things to, theresources that are there out there fighting for
you, helping you, guiding you.
If we have those people in our lives, we don'tneed to feel like that we've gotta strap it
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around our throats every single day.
Mhmm.
To
prove to to today, I can do more.
Yes.
Yes.
That was that was really the message and somaybe that message today lands with someone
that maybe if you didn't have to prove that youcould do more, and then you're just out there
doing your thing and putting the people aroundyou that you need, we're not meant to build a
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business in a silo.
We need each other, we need community, it's whyLeap for Ladies exists.
We need other people that are doing what we'redoing because they get it.
They get it.
Yes, yes.
And one of your talks you've done, thetrainings you've done for Leap for Ladies, and
I've heard you mention this phrase many, manytimes in our conversations, is your network is
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your net worth, right?
And so that comes back to the connections thatwe get to make, And really that does empower
you to whether you're in the corporate worldand you have a network but you need to build an
entrepreneurial network, Or you're anentrepreneur somewhere in your business and
you're feeling a little alone because it can bekind of lonely and we get in our heads
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sometimes as entrepreneurs.
Really building that network to build our networth.
So talk to our listeners just a little bitabout that concept.
Yeah it's my favorite and I call it buildingyour social capital and you really get to
deposit on this on a regular basis and oursocial capital comes from you know when we plug
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in to individuals that make us feel good andenergize us, but it really is about who you
know, what you know, and who knows you.
And the what you know piece, we've already gotthat down.
We know what we know and that kind of reallystarts the stepping stone for you.
Then when you start meeting a bunch of people,it's who you know.
Right?
Like, why know that person?
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I know that you can start connecting people.
But then when you get into the the this is thebig moneymaker.
This is the big net worth bucket, which is whoknows you The who knows you bucket is what I
talked about of building those relationshipswith people around you so that they're out
there activating for you.
They're out there they're out there being yourraving fan.
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They're talking to other people about you.
They're saying would be the best to speak atthis conference.
You should get to know her.
I'm gonna connect you with Coleen because she'stop of mind.
And then before you know it, I'll give you anexample.
I just met with someone today for lunch.
They connect you with six other people.
Those six people become customers or connectyou with another person, whether it's personal
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or in your business life, that is your networth.
All of that personal and business, those thingsare your net worth, whether it's personal
health, a connection for you to give one to oneof your kids, for your grandchild, or a
connection for you that's gonna get you aclient in your business.
So all of these things, you know, they say it'swho you know.
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I think it's who knows you.
That's where the money is.
So the we need to be building these socialbuckets on a regular basis.
Those are the most important buckets that webuild.
And all of that comes from being out there,nurturing contacts, sitting with people,
breaking bread with people, havingconversations, meeting them for coffee,
whatever it takes.
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We cannot be so busy, like you said it,fulfilling, you know, with clients and getting
more clients that we forget that we need tonurture relationships.
Yes.
Yes.
I love that, I love that, and I just love it.
I was in a networking group this morning, andI've been a part of this group.
I just love this group.
Two of the women in there said, looking attheir numbers for last year, I am their number
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one referral source.
And I was just like, I always refer people tothem because I know they're going to be so well
taken care of.
It makes me look like a hero when I can connectsomebody to somebody else that can solve a
problem and do it well and do it with love andcare and attention.
So It's so powerful when you have this greatnetwork of people that you can refer to so that
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you become known as the person that can connectanybody to anybody.
If somebody needs a connection for something, Ilove it when they call me and they say, You
know everybody.
Who do you know that does this?
It's such a great feeling.
And I know you have that network as well to tapinto.
I just think that's amazing, and I love doingthat.
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And I know you love doing that too, and I'm soglad that you're out there in the world
building those relationships and helping usbuild our net worth through our network.
Colleen, I know you're working on the dronefranchise, and so how do people or people in
the Phoenix area that might wanna have you comeand cater their event?
(30:17):
What's the best way for people to kind of getahold of you at this point?
You know, I would say anyone that's in thePhoenix area, you know, that might be a company
looking for a commercial or if you're acommercial real estate agent, if you're a
nonprofit that needs a commercial built for,you know, to for donations.
We do events.
We do movies.
We do drone training.
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Phoenixdronepros.com is the number one place togo for that.
The franchising opportunity, just click on thefranchise opportunity for anyone out of the
state in another state that would love to havethat opportunity, to work with someone like
myself to build a a business for yourself ifyou're looking to retire or get out of
corporate America for sure.
That's the best place to reach me.
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And of course, if you ever want to learn moreabout me, it's just easy to Google Colleen
Biggs.
You're going to find out all that I've done inthe past, where I've been.
I also have a website ColleenBiggs.net.
If someone is like, hey, who is this girl?
You know, you can find me there as well but I'mplaying in the industry of Phoenix Drone Pro
these days.
So, if if anyone is looking to, hey, I'd loveto come to conferences.
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That's great.
I didn't know she did that in the Arizona area.
You can always go toEmpowerandElevateConference.com.
We have another one coming up in November bythe time this podcast is released.
We will have already had March.
So March and November, we have them twice ayear.
So, we would love to, you know, have you comeplay in a room that maybe you've never been in
and ladies fly in from out of state.
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So, it's a really fun day all day, nine to sixswag lunch, champagne.
We've got you covered.
Wonderful.
Wonderful.
And for all of our listeners, no matter whatplatform you're listening on or watching us on
YouTube, we will have all of all of Colleen'scontact information in the show notes, so you
can easily find that if you just look in theshow notes from wherever you're listening to
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the podcast.
So that is a wrap today on our episode of theSleep to Success podcast.
I hope you found inspiration, motivation, and afew golden nuggets to take with you on your
journey.
If you love this conversation, please be sureto subscribe so that you never miss an episode.
If today's guest, the amazing Colleen Biggs,resonated with you, please show her some love
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by sharing this episode with your community.
Remember, can find all of her contactinformation in the show notes wherever you're
listening or watching to the watching thepodcast.
If you wanna go deeper and join us inside theLEAP community, you where you'll find even more
resources, connections, and opportunities toshow up and grow, visit us at
successmagnified.com/leapforladies to learnmore.
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And until next time, keep taking bold leaps,contributing your gifts, and celebrating your
successes and building your net worth.
Right?
Your network.
So thanks again, Colleen, for being a guesttoday.
It's been my pleasure to have you on the show.
I'm honored, Mary.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
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