June 4, 2024 • 36 mins
Discover how to infuse your life with joy and productivity with insights from Lindsay Dollinger, a passionate women's business coach, podcast host, and high school Spanish teacher who adores all things Disney. Lindsay reveals practical strategies to capture that Disney magic in your everyday routine, even while juggling a full-time job and personal commitments. Learn how small, intentional changes, like choosing energizing activities and setting firm boundaries, can significantly improve your quality of life.
Lindsay shares her wisdom on balancing work, life, and entrepreneurial pursuits, emphasizing the importance of consistency and strategic actions over relentless effort. Tune in to hear her inspiring message that women and girls have all the power and talent they need to achieve their dreams.
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Danielle La Rose (00:00):
Oh my gosh, I'm so excited for today because
Lindsay is my friend and I'm soobsessed with her, but I'm so
excited to ask all the fundetailed questions of business
and all the things.
So we are in for a specialtreat.
So I have Lindsay.
Oh my gosh, I should have askedbefore I'm going to mess your
name up, because I feel like Ialways do, dollinger.
Lindsay Dollinger (00:23):
Dollinger.
Danielle La Rose (00:26):
Dollinger.
See, I was like I was about tosay that and I was like, no, it
can't be that, it has to be theother way.
Okay, Lindsay Dollinger is awomen's business coach, a
podcast host of the Purpose andPixie Dust podcast, high school
Spanish teacher, rescue dog mamaand Disney lover and I know you
say lover, but I would sayobsessor.
It's like a whole level.
(00:47):
She helps women withproductivity and strategy to
grow their businesses with alittle pixie dust thrown in.
Lindsay, welcome to the podcast.
I'm so excited to have you here.
Lindsay Dollinger (00:58):
Yay, I'm so excited, danielle.
I have wanted to be on yourshow forever and I always love
our conversations, so I'mexcited for today.
Danielle La Rose (01:10):
Yay, there's so our car.
And again we have no rhyme orreason, there's no plan.
We're just going to have somecoffee chat and see where the
conversation takes us.
So before we get into like thebusiness stuff I mean business
is fun but before we do that,what is your favorite part of
Disney?
Lindsay Dollinger (01:21):
Oh my gosh.
Okay, I this question.
I feel like I give a differentanswer every time, um, because
I'm like there's so many partsthat are my favorite, but I
think the biggest thing is justthe whole vibe, like the you
know, the whole energy when yougo to Disney, even if you go by
yourself, but especially if yougo with family or friends.
(01:42):
Just the experience where youcan go, you know, forget about
everything else, unplugged fromthe world, and just be like
immersed in this really magicalexperience.
I love it because whenever Ileave, it's always such a good
reminder Like why can't everyday be like this?
Like every day doesn't have tobe at Disney, but that energy
and that vibe we can take intoour everyday parts of our life.
(02:05):
And does it always happen?
No, but it's a really goodreminder of, you know, like,
let's get to that level and keepit that way, even when we're
not at Disney parks.
So that's probably my favorite.
Danielle La Rose (02:16):
I love that, so okay.
So then how do you again yousaid you know how do we make
that part of our everyday life?
So a little of bit pixie dust.
So how do you add that littlepixie dust into your day on a
consistent basis?
Lindsay Dollinger (02:29):
Such a good question.
So I feel like there's a lot oflayers to that, but one of the
biggest ones for me, probably inthe past couple years, is
really getting super self-awareof, like what brings me joy and
lights me up and what depletesme, whether that is people I'm
around, environments, tasks thatI'm doing, workouts that I'm
(02:51):
doing Like.
Why am I making myself do theseworkouts that are killing me,
when I really love like thiskind of workout.
You know things like that,which is also maybe why I won't
ever run a marathon again.
So we'll see someone, will youknow?
I will.
In like 10 years, I'm going tobe like you said you never going
to do it, but, um, you know, Ireally love the idea of it.
I love the um, like the trainingschedule, for example, but the
actual marathon itself was, washorrible.
(03:13):
I hated it almost every secondof it.
So it's just thatself-awareness piece of like I
said you know what really lightsyou up, and then, uh, adding on
another layer is making thoseboundaries in your life and
really sticking to them, beingdisciplined enough to be like
you know no is no, or findingways to strategically take out
(03:34):
those pieces that don't lightyou up and then add in some of
those ones that do more.
So like for me, I love myPeloton bike workouts, like that
brings me a lot of joy, likecertain instructors,
specifically, or going for awalk with my dog, or you know
the mastermind that I'm in rightnow.
I really loved hopping on thosecalls because those women are
my kind of women and it's mykind of vibe, you know.
So just little things like thatthat I get to look forward to
(03:59):
in my day, and it doesn't haveto be always going to Disney
World, it can be, you know youreveryday parts of life.
But I think it comes down tothat awareness piece first for
sure.
Danielle La Rose (04:10):
So just adding , taking away as much as we are
able to right, we can't justeveryone leave the job and do
you know like get rid ofeverything, but removing some of
the things that don't bring usjoy and really adding in the
things once you identify likewhat brings you joy and adding
those into your day.
Lindsay Dollinger (04:29):
Absolutely so .
Like, for example, you said, job, I'm a teacher full time and I
found myself, when I would getinto the teacher's workroom,
falling into like the gossipingand the cattiness of some of the
conversations that were goingin, and I haven't eaten lunch in
the teacher's workroom for likefour years now.
Just because I'm like that, Iwould walk away feeling like
(04:53):
icky and it might not be, itmight've been stuff that other
people said, but a lot of timesit was stuff that I found myself
falling into and I'm like, okay, this isn't the woman that like
I'm becoming with, like mypersonal development and all
this other stuff.
And so that's one example of,like, my everyday life where now
I eat with a couple of women,we eat in like a separate room,
(05:14):
or we eat in my room, orsometimes I just eat in my room
by myself and let myselfrecharge that way.
But that's one example of a waywhere I'm like, okay, that
doesn't really feel great to meand why I still love my
coworkers and I absolutelyrespect them.
Just that environment for mewasn't one that I wanted to be
in.
Danielle La Rose (05:32):
So good, I love that.
Again, it all comes back tothat awareness piece, right,
like becoming aware of who weare and who we want to be and
like what is actually helping usdo that and what's actually
kind of pulling us back andmaking choices.
So I love that.
Okay, so like you just said,you're a teacher full time, you
do all these things, you travel.
(05:53):
I feel like every other dayyou're in a new spot and you're
like going.
I'm like, oh my gosh, I lovethis so much and you're running
a business and you're helpingpeople and all these things.
So, when it comes we've talkedor mentioned productivity and
strategies and time managementand all of the things.
For someone that's listeningwho's like, okay, that sounds
(06:15):
great.
I love to work full time andI'd love to run a business on
the side and I'd love to go toDisney all the time.
What would your top few tips befor that person that you have
personally found helpful?
Lindsay Dollinger (06:28):
So I get really creative, first of all.
So someone just asked me thisat a teacher conference I was at
, they were like you just wentto Disney twice this fall.
How did you do it?
How did you get the time off?
Well, I was like well, thefirst one, technically, I went
down for a teacher conference.
So I found a teacher conference.
I've actually gone the lastcouple of years.
That was in Orlando and it wason a topic that I wanted to go
(06:52):
to, and I get a certain numberof days off a year to go to
conferences.
So I picked it.
Where it was a Thursday, fridayconference, I flew down
Wednesday night.
So then in the evenings whenthe conference was over, I would
go to Disney.
Or on down Wednesday night, sothen in the evenings when the
conference was over, I would goto Disney.
Or, you know, on the Saturdayand Sunday, before I flew home,
I would go to Disney.
So I get really strategic andcreative around those sorts of
things.
Same thing with travel.
(07:12):
I've actually won a lot of mytravel abroad experiences, not
all of them, but for example, Iliterally will Google teachers
traveling for free, or, you know, teacher travel abroad, or
travel abroad grants, travelabroad, scholarship, yada, yada,
you know, and it's amazingwhat's out there if you actually
(07:32):
look for it.
So I think, getting creativeand really going after the
things that you want, because Ijust knew, especially at the
beginning stages of my teachingcareer, you know, 15 years ago,
I didn't have the funds to dothose things if I did not get
creative.
So I think, getting creativeand finding those ways.
And another example tying backinto Disney with my business
(07:53):
this time is I love hostingretreats.
So I have hosted retreats forwomen closer to home in Northern
Kentucky the past I don't knowthree years And've built Disney
into my brand so much I'm likeI'm going to do a Disney
business retreat.
So again, knocking off twobirds with one stone, I get my
fix for Disney.
Also, the people that I'mattracting into my business and
(08:16):
my clients are usually Disneypeople, so it's a lot of fun.
We vibe in the same way thatway.
So we do the business portionand then we ended the business
retreat going to Disney.
So again, being strategic andcreative about that, I think is
really something that everyonecan do but not everyone thinks
about doing all the time.
And then the other thing isjust really, really careful
(08:38):
planning and I know you saidthat.
But I like to look at mycalendar like a year view.
So I already have trips plannedfor the majority of next summer
.
So because of that, I'm like,okay, and everyone's asking me
about when I'm going to host mynext retreat.
I'm like sorry, guys, I don'thave one on the calendar quite
yet, just because I know I'm notgoing to be doing business
(08:59):
related stuff during the summerbecause I'm going to be abroad a
lot of the times and I'll behome, I don't know, two weeks
between one trip and one weekbetween the other.
But I also know me again goingback to that self-awareness
piece, I will run myself likeragged, like doing all the
things.
I'm like I need some rest time,I need some recharge time, I
need to be with my dogs.
So knowing all the pieces thatI absolutely have to fit in and
(09:23):
then fitting in the other pieceswhere I have the space so kind
of like playing Tetris a littlebit is something that, again, we
can all do.
It's just sometimes we don'talways do it.
We're like flying by the seat ofour pants, or or you could be
like me this last September andfor some reason I booked a trip
for every weekend out of townand I'm like, why did I do that?
(09:43):
That was horrible.
So by the end of September I'mlike I don't even remember this
month, like I don't evenremember all the things that
happened because it was sojam-packed.
So that's when I know myselfand I know I needed the rest,
but then I didn't listen to itbecause I did.
You know, it was kind of poorplanning all the way around, but
it all works out in the end.
But yeah, I would say planningand getting creative about where
(10:04):
you can fit the things in andhow you can make things happen,
because I think if there's awill, there's a way.
So if you want to do it, you'llfind a way to do it for sure.
Danielle La Rose (10:18):
And I love how you like everything ties in,
like everything makes it makessense.
You know, for your business,your brand, your lifestyle, you
know you're not trying to.
You know with a creativitypiece right Like let's go, let's
take my business retreat toOrlando so we can also do Disney
, but I also build my businessand talk about Disney to where
Disney people are attracted tome, so then they're gonna want
(10:38):
to go on that trip.
To like everything that you'redoing is so magical, it's all
like inner, you know, it's allintermingled to where.
It's like why I almost think ofthat saying like work smarter,
not harder.
Like you make it all make somuch sense that the lifestyle
that you want to live you makepart of your business, part of
(11:01):
your brand, part of life.
So for me that's a big takeawayfrom you is like okay, if you
want to build a business, if youwant to, you know travel or do
different things.
Like make it all just part ofyou.
Like when I think of Lindsay, Ithink of business, I think of
Disney, I think of travel, Ithink of teacher, and that's
(11:22):
literally everything and you'vecombined it all to be like okay,
let's get creative and make itall to be like okay, let's get
creative and make it all makesense.
And it makes perfect sense.
I love that.
It's my brand buckets, yes, yes, I'm so glad it's working.
It's working for you, sister,it is Okay.
So let's get into then a littlebit of well, before we do that,
(11:42):
have you always?
You know, the goal here withtalking to our friends here is,
right, inspiring and empoweringwomen to step into their power,
and I just see that so much fromyou again, like with the
business, right, like let's takeour power, let's become aware
of who we are, what we want,make it work, make it make sense
, and so you do that so well.
(12:05):
So if someone is listening andthey're like okay, that's great,
how do I do that?
How do I step into that power?
Have you ever?
Have you always wanted?
Were you always like, I'm goingto be a business coach, I'm
going to be a Disney fanatic andI'm going to make retreats and
go to Disney?
(12:26):
Like, how did this come aboutand how did you find or create
the confidence to like, pursuethis?
Lindsay Dollinger (12:34):
Okay, Definitely two different
questions.
Danielle La Rose (12:36):
I feel like sorry, yes, I was all over.
I have a lot.
Lindsay Dollinger (12:39):
No, no, no, you're fine.
I just have to remember toanswer both of them.
So the first one how did Istart doing this or become a
business coach is that it allhappens super organically.
So I've always wanted to be ateacher and I thought for me,
teacher had to be the classroomsetting, because that's what
everyone thinks of when theythink of teacher.
(12:59):
And then 2015, my mom passedaway, uh, from breast cancer,
and it was really really hard.
My family is super, super closeand, um, she'd had breast
cancer for a really long timeand when that happened, I feel
like the me from before, Ialmost like detached from her,
like I and I went through griefin a very um, I'd, I'd lost my
(13:23):
grandparents and we were close,but it was just like a whole
nother level.
Um, and so everything that wasa part of my life before, like
my, my big friend group um, theywere, you know, in a very
different place than where Iwanted to be, so, like I didn't
want to go out to the baranymore every night and I didn't
want to live that sort oflifestyle, and so I found myself
(13:47):
very alone, to be quite honest,and I'm like, okay, well, this
is it Like this is life.
What am I going to do about it?
Um, and so I actually read thebook the energy bus.
I don't know if you've read it.
It's super short and to thisday I'm like that book a hundred
percent changed my life, causeit took me out of the depression
I was in and I was like I canchoose whatever however I want
(14:09):
to feel.
Right now I have the ability todo this, and so I fell into
network marketing.
Actually, I belonged to a gymin Columbus and the owner of it
was a body coach beach body atthe time and so I started doing
that.
I always thought I was nevergoing to do anything like that.
(14:29):
I did that and I really foundmy new community and it was a
group of women and men whoreally didn't know the me from
before, which was reallyrefreshing, and I felt like
almost like I could reinventmyself.
But it wasn't even reinventingmyself, because I feel like it
(14:49):
was always me all along.
It's just I had very much putmyself in a box in the
environments that I was puttingmyself in my day job, you know
everything kind of the way itwas supposed to be, and not
really allowing myself to evenimagine other possibilities.
So I did that.
I went up in a few ranks reallyquickly, started seeing some
(15:10):
success, really enjoyed it.
Long story short, I ended upswitching through a couple of
different companies and alongthe way, each company that I was
in I was able to find success.
And so people started asking mewhat are you doing?
You don't seem salesy or spammy.
You're different than a lot ofthe other network marketers we
(15:31):
see.
And I realized the piece that Ireally loved wasn't necessarily
the network marketing products,but it was coaching the women
and showing them how to buildteams, and it was my team calls
and getting to talk again,building those relationships
with people.
And I had a crazy idea, becauseI started listening to podcasts
and doing personal developmentthrough all of this and I was
(15:53):
like, well, okay, well, I'mgoing to start a podcast.
So the podcast actually camefirst, and so I started the
podcast and at the time it wascalled the Social Selling
Sisterhood, because I was reallyspecifically talking to network
marketers, cause that's reallywhat I knew.
And then, um, I created aplanner tracker, a free group.
You know all the.
You know all those small littlesteps that got me to where I'm
at now.
So like that's why I'm meetingwhen I say it's a journey, like
(16:16):
everything kind of cameincremental, it wasn't, you know
, just like an overnight sort ofthing.
And then when clients startedworking with me to get coached,
they weren't all networkmarketers and I was like, huh,
so I can help a bookkeeper, eventhough I don't really know much
about bookkeeping.
However, you know, the thingsthat I'm teaching will apply to
(16:37):
any business.
So, long story short, that'show I became a business coach
and so I started coaching aboutthree years ago and then added
in retreats, because I went tosome retreats and really loved
them and, like this is so fun, Iwant to create this for my
community.
And so you know, I've been inmastermind, so now I have my own
mastermind and I think thereally cool thing about doing
that is you get to take the bitsand pieces that you really love
(16:59):
and that work for you and makethem a part of your programs and
a part of your offerings.
But also you have seen what yourcoaches have done and even
though it didn't work for you,possibly you can still use those
techniques with your clients.
So it's almost like you havelike your little, your little
medicine bag with like all thestuff in it that you can like
(17:19):
pull out to help people.
Um, so, in that way has beensuper organic.
Now I'm trying to remember thesecond question.
I knew I would forget thesecond question, coaching and do
you remember the secondquestion?
Danielle La Rose (17:31):
I don't remember, because I worded it as
like one whole random thoughtprocess question how did you
become a coach?
And Well, let me go here andthen it'll probably come to us
or we'll come up with a newquestion Um, but what I wanted
to just call out that I think isreally cool is how you said.
It is like so organic.
(17:53):
You know, you didn't startsaying I'm going to be a
business coach to all thesepeople.
It was like, okay, I started inthis company, then I moved
companies and then I was likelet's do a podcast and then
let's add this and let's addthat.
And you really just went withwhat made sense for you in the
moment and like what you felt,like I have the ability and
qualities to be able to helpother people in this way, and
(18:15):
you just built on to it.
You know, I think so often,especially in our social media
world, where we just see someoneand we just think, you know,
they woke up one morning andthey decided they're going to be
like the best motivationalspeaker in the whole world and
20,000 people showed up to watchthem and end of story right,
without realizing that so manypeople.
(18:36):
It started with one thing.
It started with one idea onepodcast, one email, one this,
one that, and just based off ofand, like you said, you know you
.
Again, it comes back to thatself-awareness of what you
realized you were good at andwhat you really enjoyed the most
about the process and said okay, what can I, what can I do with
(18:56):
this?
Right, like, how can I use thisto build from here, to build
what you are building now andyou're not done now, right, like
, next week you'll come up withanother idea and be like, let me
add this to it and then let meadd that, and then you'll keep
adding to that medicine bag thatyou mentioned, you know, and I
just think that that that isreally, really cool.
So maybe this is the questionthat I had, and I don't even
(19:19):
know if it was the question, butI actually remember Okay, okay,
go ahead.
Lindsay Dollinger (19:22):
We're talking Cause you kind of what you said
was kind of basically my answeranyway, but it was hard to find
the confidence to do all ofthat.
And it's one step at a time,right Like trial and error, not
being afraid to fall on yourface even though you actually
might be, um, but you know, onestep at a time, but anyway, go
ahead with your question.
Yeah, you know, one step at atime, but anyway, go ahead with
your question.
Danielle La Rose (19:40):
Yeah, no, but that yes.
So, one step at a time, andthis is probably going to be the
answer to your next question,or you can elaborate more.
But if there's someonelistening who is like, okay, but
I have this dream right, like Iwant to be the best bookkeeper
with millions of dollars, or Iwant to be that motivational
speaker, I want to be the nextgreat business coach, like
Lindsay, like what would youtell that person?
Like where do they start?
(20:01):
Especially right, you and Iboth have this experience right,
working a full-time job, tryingto start something on this side
.
Right, while also living a lifetraveling doing the things.
But if that person's like, okay, I really want to do something.
Like I have this thing thatfeels right, what would you tell
them?
Like where to start?
Lindsay Dollinger (20:22):
I think you get to make it a priority, first
of all, if it is something thatyou truly, truly desire.
And I heard this on a podcast,and I don't remember whose it
was, but I was like, oh my gosh,that is so cool.
He was basically saying and itwas a gentleman who was the
podcast host If you spend Ithink it was two hours a day,
(20:42):
two hours a day, five times aweek, on the one thing that you
want to be become the best inthe world bookkeeper, coach,
whatever by the end of a year oh, it was Ed Milet, ed Milet's
recent podcast, but anyway, bythe end of a year you will be
and I forget the exact number,but like 80% better than
everyone else who has ever triedto do that thing, and I think
(21:05):
that speaks such volumes forconsistency.
Um, because showing upconsistently doesn't have to be
the same thing as beingconsistent.
Wait, wait, what's the wordshowing up?
I'm going to totally mess thisup.
Consistently is not the same asconstantly, and I think people
(21:28):
get those two mixed up or thinkthat they're the same thing.
And so for me, when I was veryfirst starting out and I'm like
I don't even know what to do youknow, whatever, 15 minutes a
day.
And that was my consistency,where I'm fitting it in for sure
at lunch every day, and then ifI had some extra time, great.
If I didn't, that was fine.
I didn't let myself get beatendown about that, but it wasn't
(21:52):
that I had to be doing it 24-7in order to start, in order to
just take that next step forward.
Have that one more conversation.
Pull up that video on YouTube.
I found videos on YouTube.
I literally typed in like powerhour for my business and I
pulled up.
I found these like recordingsand I played them and I did what
(22:12):
it said to do.
It was like these random peopleon YouTube and I would pull
that up and I would listen to itat work.
So I had a half an hour lunchbreak, so I would go get my
lunch and I would come up and bythat time I had about 20
minutes left and so I would do20 minutes of that power hour
and I would push pause and thenthe next day at lunch I would
push play and I do the next 20minute chunk.
And you know, I just did thatand I did it consistently.
(22:37):
Why is this so hard?
Consistently?
But it wasn't something I hadto do constantly, if that makes
sense.
So, yeah, that was my baby step.
Danielle La Rose (22:48):
Yeah, that that makes sense.
So, yeah, that one baby step,yeah, that makes complete sense,
because and I also really lovethat everything for you.
What I'm hearing throughout,like all of this is
resourcefulness, right, Like ifyou and you said it if you want
something bad enough, you'llfind a way.
And so you just said, like Iwent on YouTube and I looked for
a business power hour, right.
And then, with traveling, right, like you Googled how to travel
(23:11):
for free, how to get grants,how to do these things, where so
many people sit back andthey're like, oh well, that's
not possible, that doesn't workfor me.
Nothing, you know there's.
There wouldn't be anything likethat, instead of just saying,
well, let me see what ispossible and what I can do, and
well, let me see what ispossible and what I can do, and
then, with that whole, you know,if you want it bad enough,
you'll figure out a way.
You know, like you said, yeah,it was an hour long video, but
(23:35):
you said, okay, I got 20 minutes, let me do 20 minutes every
single day, right.
And so that's that consistencypiece.
Is that every day or whateveryou decide, is consistent for
you?
But I do think, especially withyou know maybe even more so now
we think of, to be successful inbusiness, you have to be
constant.
You have to constantly be onsocial media.
(23:55):
You have to constantly be doingthings, sending emails, showing
up, like it just feels hard tobe able to do that, and what
you're really saying is yo,homies, like I did this in 20
minutes, chunks of time, likebecause I wanted to, and so
that's what it really comes downto, right.
(24:16):
So for you, with doing likeyour business, coaching and
things, what's one of thebiggest struggles that you see?
A lot of women, cause I knowyou work mainly with women, but
people in general um, what doyou see as like the biggest
thing that holds a lot of peopleback when it comes to business?
Lindsay Dollinger (24:37):
So one thing that I see a lot in my current
clients is trying to be at thesame level of as someone else
when they haven't put in thebuilding blocks to get to that
yet.
So they might take a you know,a free course, or even buy a
course on launching, but theydon't even have the foundations
(24:57):
of their business down yet.
And I'm like, girlfriend, whatare you launching, you know?
And so that comparing ourselvesto others I don't think is
always a bad thing.
I think a little healthycompetition sometimes or seeing
what's out there and what'sworking for other people can be
a good thing if you do it anduse it in the correct way.
But I also think it's so easyfor us to get caught into the
(25:19):
trap of seeing where someoneelse is and not knowing, like,
okay, well, lindsay's been doingthis for eight years.
Compared to me, her launch isgoing to be a little different
or when people see and sometimesI can put out three emails and
I make sales, but it hasn'talways been that way, like there
has definitely been times whereI had to do a lot more or I had
to be, you know, dming or doinga lot more live videos than I
(25:41):
have to now because I've put inthat time and build up those
foundations.
And so I think, wanting to skipsome of those pieces to build
up the foundations, or thinkingmaybe you can take a shortcut by
, I don't know, automatingsomething and I'm a queen of
automation, trust me, I'm allfor automating.
But automating something orjust skipping some of those key
(26:03):
pieces and you probably couldit's just gonna either take
longer or you're gonna havelittle holes that fill in your
business, and I'm a big fan oftaking your time, getting it
really strong at the base andthen building everything as you
go, so you have something that'sactually gonna last for you.
Danielle La Rose (26:21):
And can we just say that that's true of
like every part of life.
Right, like everyone wants toskip the life.
Right, like everyone wants toskip the steps.
Right, like when I'm cooking mydinner, I'm like do I really
have to do this part?
Like I just want to get to theend and have the delicious meal,
right and same, with, like youknow, wellness.
I'm, you know, coaching womenwith body image and they're like
(26:41):
, can I just do the workouts andeat the food and just like,
lose the weight?
And I'm like I mean you can,but it ain't, it's not going to
work for you long-term, sister,cause you're going to end up
right back where you were, causewe haven't built that
foundation.
So everything in life, right,and I know business is one of
the best, and I know you kind ofmentioned this, like with
network marketing, business isone of the best.
(27:02):
Like personal developmentopportunities.
Right, like we grow so much asas business owners, just
personally, mentally, becauseeverything can be applied like
that foundation piece right,like that can be applied to
every other part of our life.
Like stop skipping the steps.
Like start with the foundation.
Um, I love it, okay, uh.
So can we jump to like somerapid fire fun questions.
(27:25):
Yeah, let's do it, okay, okay.
So I feel like I have to switchthem up a little bit for you.
Okay Okay, you can hang outwith one Disney character and
they become like real.
Who do you hang out with?
Lindsay Dollinger (27:37):
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, this is too much
pressure.
Okay, I have to say the LittleMermaid, because I really think
I can still see myself beinglike how old was I when that
movie came out?
Like three or something, likebelting out those songs.
I'm like I'm pretty sure that'sthe reason I want to travel.
(27:57):
It was definitely the LittleMermaid.
So I want to be BFF with theLittle Mermaid.
Danielle La Rose (28:03):
I am obsessed with this answer.
I love that, All right.
What is one?
Oh man, you kind of answeredthat already, but I'll ask One
movement or exercise that youenjoy that makes you feel
powerful.
Lindsay Dollinger (28:15):
Ooh yeah, I'm going to have to go with my
Peloton bike.
I really love that.
However, I do really love agood half marathon, particularly
the ones at Disney.
Those are really fun.
Danielle La Rose (28:25):
Yeah, um, okay , so you can have one meal for
the rest of your life.
What do you choose?
Lindsay Dollinger (28:32):
Ooh, um, this is probably a really lame
answer.
I really like barbecue chickensalads.
Danielle La Rose (28:39):
Oh, okay, do you get them from a specific
place?
Lindsay Dollinger (28:42):
Best of both worlds?
Um, not necessarily, but I doreally like the ones at um
California pizza kitchen, ifthey still have them.
I haven't been there forever,but they used to have really
okay, Um, good answer.
Danielle La Rose (28:56):
Now I feel like I need to try.
I'm not a salad person, but nowI feel like I need to try one
of those.
Lindsay Dollinger (29:01):
You would like it.
I feel like okay.
Danielle La Rose (29:04):
So best Disney movie ever created.
Lindsay Dollinger (29:09):
Oh, no, um, ever, ever, ever, ever.
Okay, I'm gonna go with.
I really like frozen.
So I'm going to go with frozen.
I think just the wholestoryline is really good.
Danielle La Rose (29:30):
Okay, what is one daily or consistent habit
that helps you step more intoyour confidence and self-love?
Lindsay Dollinger (29:39):
sleep.
I got really clear on myboundaries for sleep a few years
ago and it like changed my life.
So my sleep is pretty muchnon-negotiable, unless I'm doing
like an overnight flight toEurope, in which case I will
sacrifice my sleep for that.
But other than that, I need mysleep.
Danielle La Rose (29:56):
I love it A certain number of hours, or like
okay, this is going to soundreally crazy.
Lindsay Dollinger (30:01):
I prefer like nine.
I'm a nine hour girl.
I listened to a podcast on theChalene show with Chalene
Johnson.
She had a sleep expert on a fewyears ago and it like basically
taught you to track how muchbody you're like when your REM
cycle was, and yada yada.
So anyway, either seven and ahalf or nine are my sweet spots.
Danielle La Rose (30:22):
Good to know what is one song that makes you
feel powerful.
Lindsay Dollinger (30:30):
Oh my gosh, what's it called?
I literally have it up overhere and I can't think of um.
It's a song.
It's the song by Lily, is itMayola Um daydream?
Have you heard that song?
Danielle La Rose (30:41):
I have not, but I will go listen after this.
Lindsay Dollinger (30:43):
I will send it to you.
She won Um, I think it wasAmerica's Got Talent and I love
that song.
It's super empowering.
Danielle La Rose (30:54):
Oh, I'm going to add it to my playlist, okay.
So who is one powerful?
Lindsay Dollinger (31:02):
woman who has inspired you in your life.
Let me go with my mama.
Danielle La Rose (31:07):
I love it.
Last one If there was onepowerful piece of advice you
could leave for little girls orwomen, what would it be?
Lindsay Dollinger (31:22):
You have all of the power and talent and
everything that you need insideyou.
You don't need the validationfrom anyone else to do anything
that is put on your heart.
So go out there and do thething.
Danielle La Rose (31:37):
So good.
I love that.
I'm going to put that on repeatand just play it to myself
every single day.
I love it Because I love whenpeople always ask me, you know
with my girl, empowermentprograms and stuff like what age
are they for?
And I'm like, well, home, girl,you might be like you might be
47, but you need the sameprogram that my seven-year-old
needs.
You know, like we all, we allneed the same messages and
(31:59):
reminders.
It's so good.
Okay, Is there anything beforewe say goodbye, Are there?
Is there anything we didn'tcover?
Where you're like, oh man, Ireally wanted to share this with
our friends listening that Imight not have asked you.
Lindsay Dollinger (32:17):
I don't know if it's that you didn't ask me,
but I was thinking of this story, um, when you were talking
about something.
I forget what you had asked me,but there was a moment in my
network marketing journey that Iwanted to share because it was
the one that I referenced a lotwith.
A switch went off in my mind,and I had been in my business
(32:39):
about three and a half years.
By that point.
I had done several differentcompanies and I had just kind of
plateaued at a certain level.
In all of them I had a team andI was seeing success.
And so I was at my nationalconference with some of my
teammates and I was listening toall these top, top, top leaders
speak on the stage, andeverything that they said was
(33:01):
stuff that I knew, and I justhad this moment in this audience
that I was like, why not me?
And I just want you to hearthat message, if you're
listening to this and you havefelt that same way, like I know
all this stuff that these womenare saying and you know what?
What are they doing that I'mnot doing?
And the answer is literallyjust that they are taking action
(33:22):
, and so I left that speech.
I went up to my hotel room, um,I had my team come up and I was
like, all right, ladies, we aredoing action.
And so I left that speech.
I went up to my hotel room.
I had my team come up and I waslike, all right, ladies, we are
doing this, we are going all in.
And I was like I'm walking onthat stage.
Next year I'm going to berecognized, we are going to be
the top team, like all thisstuff.
And we didn't get to the verytop, but I walked that stage the
(33:42):
next year.
We grew I don't even know whatpercentage.
It was insane and it was just amindset shift.
So if you are feeling that wayin any aspect of your life, you
know it doesn't even have to bebusiness related but if you're
looking at that person andyou're like, why can't I be
healthy like her, or why can't Ihave X, y, z like her, you
(34:03):
can't like.
This is your reminder that youcan, you know, find the way,
like you said, be resourceful,be disciplined enough to go
after it and take that action onthat thing, because if not,
you're going to be sitting herein a year asking yourself that
same question, and we don't wantthat Mic drop.
Danielle La Rose (34:21):
That was that, was it Like.
Now I'm like okay, Lindsay, wegot to stop talking now because
I got to go take action, Lindsayjust said it.
Lindsay Dollinger (34:27):
That's right, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Danielle La Rose (34:29):
Okay.
Thank you so much for that,lindsay.
For those that are listeningand they're like okay, I need
more Lindsay in my life.
I love Disney, I love to travel.
I want to do the business thing, like tell me all the things,
where would you like them tocome hang out with you?
And I'll drop the link so theycan just click but where's your
favorite places to hang outwhere you would want people to
come hang out with you?
Lindsay Dollinger (34:48):
You can find me on Instagram or Facebook.
I'm Lindsay Dollinger on bothof them.
Feel free to find my personalpage.
Business page doesn't reallymatter to me because I talk to
people on both.
And if you love podcasts,because you're listening to this
one, you can find me at thePurpose and Pixie Dust podcast.
Danielle La Rose (35:03):
Yay, perfect, and, like I said, I'll drop the
link so they can click and go.
Fabulous, lindsay, you areamazing.
Thank you so much for beinghere.
I love you as a friend and allyour business stuff and the
Disney and all the things.
You are just killing it andhelping so many women.
So thank you for being here.
I appreciate you.
Lindsay Dollinger (35:20):
Thank you so much, danielle, I appreciate you
.
Oh my gosh, I'm so excited for today because
Lindsay is my friend and I'm soobsessed with her, but I'm so
excited to ask all the fundetailed questions of business
and all the things.
So we are in for a specialtreat.
So I have Lindsay.
Oh my gosh, I should have askedbefore I'm going to mess your
name up, because I feel like Ialways do, dollinger.
Lindsay Dollinger (00:23):
Dollinger.
Danielle La Rose (00:26):
Dollinger.
See, I was like I was about tosay that and I was like, no, it
can't be that, it has to be theother way.
Okay, Lindsay Dollinger is awomen's business coach, a
podcast host of the Purpose andPixie Dust podcast, high school
Spanish teacher, rescue dog mamaand Disney lover and I know you
say lover, but I would sayobsessor.
It's like a whole level.
(00:47):
She helps women withproductivity and strategy to
grow their businesses with alittle pixie dust thrown in.
Lindsay, welcome to the podcast.
I'm so excited to have you here.
Lindsay Dollinger (00:58):
Yay, I'm so excited, danielle.
I have wanted to be on yourshow forever and I always love
our conversations, so I'mexcited for today.
Danielle La Rose (01:10):
Yay, there's so our car.
And again we have no rhyme orreason, there's no plan.
We're just going to have somecoffee chat and see where the
conversation takes us.
So before we get into like thebusiness stuff I mean business
is fun but before we do that,what is your favorite part of
Disney?
Lindsay Dollinger (01:21):
Oh my gosh.
Okay, I this question.
I feel like I give a differentanswer every time, um, because
I'm like there's so many partsthat are my favorite, but I
think the biggest thing is justthe whole vibe, like the you
know, the whole energy when yougo to Disney, even if you go by
yourself, but especially if yougo with family or friends.
(01:42):
Just the experience where youcan go, you know, forget about
everything else, unplugged fromthe world, and just be like
immersed in this really magicalexperience.
I love it because whenever Ileave, it's always such a good
reminder Like why can't everyday be like this?
Like every day doesn't have tobe at Disney, but that energy
and that vibe we can take intoour everyday parts of our life.
(02:05):
And does it always happen?
No, but it's a really goodreminder of, you know, like,
let's get to that level and keepit that way, even when we're
not at Disney parks.
So that's probably my favorite.
Danielle La Rose (02:16):
I love that, so okay.
So then how do you again yousaid you know how do we make
that part of our everyday life?
So a little of bit pixie dust.
So how do you add that littlepixie dust into your day on a
consistent basis?
Lindsay Dollinger (02:29):
Such a good question.
So I feel like there's a lot oflayers to that, but one of the
biggest ones for me, probably inthe past couple years, is
really getting super self-awareof, like what brings me joy and
lights me up and what depletesme, whether that is people I'm
around, environments, tasks thatI'm doing, workouts that I'm
(02:51):
doing Like.
Why am I making myself do theseworkouts that are killing me,
when I really love like thiskind of workout.
You know things like that,which is also maybe why I won't
ever run a marathon again.
So we'll see someone, will youknow?
I will.
In like 10 years, I'm going tobe like you said you never going
to do it, but, um, you know, Ireally love the idea of it.
I love the um, like the trainingschedule, for example, but the
actual marathon itself was, washorrible.
(03:13):
I hated it almost every secondof it.
So it's just thatself-awareness piece of like I
said you know what really lightsyou up, and then, uh, adding on
another layer is making thoseboundaries in your life and
really sticking to them, beingdisciplined enough to be like
you know no is no, or findingways to strategically take out
(03:34):
those pieces that don't lightyou up and then add in some of
those ones that do more.
So like for me, I love myPeloton bike workouts, like that
brings me a lot of joy, likecertain instructors,
specifically, or going for awalk with my dog, or you know
the mastermind that I'm in rightnow.
I really loved hopping on thosecalls because those women are
my kind of women and it's mykind of vibe, you know.
So just little things like thatthat I get to look forward to
(03:59):
in my day, and it doesn't haveto be always going to Disney
World, it can be, you know youreveryday parts of life.
But I think it comes down tothat awareness piece first for
sure.
Danielle La Rose (04:10):
So just adding , taking away as much as we are
able to right, we can't justeveryone leave the job and do
you know like get rid ofeverything, but removing some of
the things that don't bring usjoy and really adding in the
things once you identify likewhat brings you joy and adding
those into your day.
Lindsay Dollinger (04:29):
Absolutely so .
Like, for example, you said, job, I'm a teacher full time and I
found myself, when I would getinto the teacher's workroom,
falling into like the gossipingand the cattiness of some of the
conversations that were goingin, and I haven't eaten lunch in
the teacher's workroom for likefour years now.
Just because I'm like that, Iwould walk away feeling like
(04:53):
icky and it might not be, itmight've been stuff that other
people said, but a lot of timesit was stuff that I found myself
falling into and I'm like, okay, this isn't the woman that like
I'm becoming with, like mypersonal development and all
this other stuff.
And so that's one example of,like, my everyday life where now
I eat with a couple of women,we eat in like a separate room,
(05:14):
or we eat in my room, orsometimes I just eat in my room
by myself and let myselfrecharge that way.
But that's one example of a waywhere I'm like, okay, that
doesn't really feel great to meand why I still love my
coworkers and I absolutelyrespect them.
Just that environment for mewasn't one that I wanted to be
in.
Danielle La Rose (05:32):
So good, I love that.
Again, it all comes back tothat awareness piece, right,
like becoming aware of who weare and who we want to be and
like what is actually helping usdo that and what's actually
kind of pulling us back andmaking choices.
So I love that.
Okay, so like you just said,you're a teacher full time, you
do all these things, you travel.
(05:53):
I feel like every other dayyou're in a new spot and you're
like going.
I'm like, oh my gosh, I lovethis so much and you're running
a business and you're helpingpeople and all these things.
So, when it comes we've talkedor mentioned productivity and
strategies and time managementand all of the things.
For someone that's listeningwho's like, okay, that sounds
(06:15):
great.
I love to work full time andI'd love to run a business on
the side and I'd love to go toDisney all the time.
What would your top few tips befor that person that you have
personally found helpful?
Lindsay Dollinger (06:28):
So I get really creative, first of all.
So someone just asked me thisat a teacher conference I was at
, they were like you just wentto Disney twice this fall.
How did you do it?
How did you get the time off?
Well, I was like well, thefirst one, technically, I went
down for a teacher conference.
So I found a teacher conference.
I've actually gone the lastcouple of years.
That was in Orlando and it wason a topic that I wanted to go
(06:52):
to, and I get a certain numberof days off a year to go to
conferences.
So I picked it.
Where it was a Thursday, fridayconference, I flew down
Wednesday night.
So then in the evenings whenthe conference was over, I would
go to Disney.
Or on down Wednesday night, sothen in the evenings when the
conference was over, I would goto Disney.
Or, you know, on the Saturdayand Sunday, before I flew home,
I would go to Disney.
So I get really strategic andcreative around those sorts of
things.
Same thing with travel.
(07:12):
I've actually won a lot of mytravel abroad experiences, not
all of them, but for example, Iliterally will Google teachers
traveling for free, or, you know, teacher travel abroad, or
travel abroad grants, travelabroad, scholarship, yada, yada,
you know, and it's amazingwhat's out there if you actually
(07:32):
look for it.
So I think, getting creativeand really going after the
things that you want, because Ijust knew, especially at the
beginning stages of my teachingcareer, you know, 15 years ago,
I didn't have the funds to dothose things if I did not get
creative.
So I think, getting creativeand finding those ways.
And another example tying backinto Disney with my business
(07:53):
this time is I love hostingretreats.
So I have hosted retreats forwomen closer to home in Northern
Kentucky the past I don't knowthree years And've built Disney
into my brand so much I'm likeI'm going to do a Disney
business retreat.
So again, knocking off twobirds with one stone, I get my
fix for Disney.
Also, the people that I'mattracting into my business and
(08:16):
my clients are usually Disneypeople, so it's a lot of fun.
We vibe in the same way thatway.
So we do the business portionand then we ended the business
retreat going to Disney.
So again, being strategic andcreative about that, I think is
really something that everyonecan do but not everyone thinks
about doing all the time.
And then the other thing isjust really, really careful
(08:38):
planning and I know you saidthat.
But I like to look at mycalendar like a year view.
So I already have trips plannedfor the majority of next summer
.
So because of that, I'm like,okay, and everyone's asking me
about when I'm going to host mynext retreat.
I'm like sorry, guys, I don'thave one on the calendar quite
yet, just because I know I'm notgoing to be doing business
(08:59):
related stuff during the summerbecause I'm going to be abroad a
lot of the times and I'll behome, I don't know, two weeks
between one trip and one weekbetween the other.
But I also know me again goingback to that self-awareness
piece, I will run myself likeragged, like doing all the
things.
I'm like I need some rest time,I need some recharge time, I
need to be with my dogs.
So knowing all the pieces thatI absolutely have to fit in and
(09:23):
then fitting in the other pieceswhere I have the space so kind
of like playing Tetris a littlebit is something that, again, we
can all do.
It's just sometimes we don'talways do it.
We're like flying by the seat ofour pants, or or you could be
like me this last September andfor some reason I booked a trip
for every weekend out of townand I'm like, why did I do that?
(09:43):
That was horrible.
So by the end of September I'mlike I don't even remember this
month, like I don't evenremember all the things that
happened because it was sojam-packed.
So that's when I know myselfand I know I needed the rest,
but then I didn't listen to itbecause I did.
You know, it was kind of poorplanning all the way around, but
it all works out in the end.
But yeah, I would say planningand getting creative about where
(10:04):
you can fit the things in andhow you can make things happen,
because I think if there's awill, there's a way.
So if you want to do it, you'llfind a way to do it for sure.
Danielle La Rose (10:18):
And I love how you like everything ties in,
like everything makes it makessense.
You know, for your business,your brand, your lifestyle, you
know you're not trying to.
You know with a creativitypiece right Like let's go, let's
take my business retreat toOrlando so we can also do Disney
, but I also build my businessand talk about Disney to where
Disney people are attracted tome, so then they're gonna want
(10:38):
to go on that trip.
To like everything that you'redoing is so magical, it's all
like inner, you know, it's allintermingled to where.
It's like why I almost think ofthat saying like work smarter,
not harder.
Like you make it all make somuch sense that the lifestyle
that you want to live you makepart of your business, part of
(11:01):
your brand, part of life.
So for me that's a big takeawayfrom you is like okay, if you
want to build a business, if youwant to, you know travel or do
different things.
Like make it all just part ofyou.
Like when I think of Lindsay, Ithink of business, I think of
Disney, I think of travel, Ithink of teacher, and that's
(11:22):
literally everything and you'vecombined it all to be like okay,
let's get creative and make itall to be like okay, let's get
creative and make it all makesense.
And it makes perfect sense.
I love that.
It's my brand buckets, yes, yes, I'm so glad it's working.
It's working for you, sister,it is Okay.
So let's get into then a littlebit of well, before we do that,
(11:42):
have you always?
You know, the goal here withtalking to our friends here is,
right, inspiring and empoweringwomen to step into their power,
and I just see that so much fromyou again, like with the
business, right, like let's takeour power, let's become aware
of who we are, what we want,make it work, make it make sense
, and so you do that so well.
(12:05):
So if someone is listening andthey're like okay, that's great,
how do I do that?
How do I step into that power?
Have you ever?
Have you always wanted?
Were you always like, I'm goingto be a business coach, I'm
going to be a Disney fanatic andI'm going to make retreats and
go to Disney?
(12:26):
Like, how did this come aboutand how did you find or create
the confidence to like, pursuethis?
Lindsay Dollinger (12:34):
Okay, Definitely two different
questions.
Danielle La Rose (12:36):
I feel like sorry, yes, I was all over.
I have a lot.
Lindsay Dollinger (12:39):
No, no, no, you're fine.
I just have to remember toanswer both of them.
So the first one how did Istart doing this or become a
business coach is that it allhappens super organically.
So I've always wanted to be ateacher and I thought for me,
teacher had to be the classroomsetting, because that's what
everyone thinks of when theythink of teacher.
(12:59):
And then 2015, my mom passedaway, uh, from breast cancer,
and it was really really hard.
My family is super, super closeand, um, she'd had breast
cancer for a really long timeand when that happened, I feel
like the me from before, Ialmost like detached from her,
like I and I went through griefin a very um, I'd, I'd lost my
(13:23):
grandparents and we were close,but it was just like a whole
nother level.
Um, and so everything that wasa part of my life before, like
my, my big friend group um, theywere, you know, in a very
different place than where Iwanted to be, so, like I didn't
want to go out to the baranymore every night and I didn't
want to live that sort oflifestyle, and so I found myself
(13:47):
very alone, to be quite honest,and I'm like, okay, well, this
is it Like this is life.
What am I going to do about it?
Um, and so I actually read thebook the energy bus.
I don't know if you've read it.
It's super short and to thisday I'm like that book a hundred
percent changed my life, causeit took me out of the depression
I was in and I was like I canchoose whatever however I want
(14:09):
to feel.
Right now I have the ability todo this, and so I fell into
network marketing.
Actually, I belonged to a gymin Columbus and the owner of it
was a body coach beach body atthe time and so I started doing
that.
I always thought I was nevergoing to do anything like that.
(14:29):
I did that and I really foundmy new community and it was a
group of women and men whoreally didn't know the me from
before, which was reallyrefreshing, and I felt like
almost like I could reinventmyself.
But it wasn't even reinventingmyself, because I feel like it
(14:49):
was always me all along.
It's just I had very much putmyself in a box in the
environments that I was puttingmyself in my day job, you know
everything kind of the way itwas supposed to be, and not
really allowing myself to evenimagine other possibilities.
So I did that.
I went up in a few ranks reallyquickly, started seeing some
(15:10):
success, really enjoyed it.
Long story short, I ended upswitching through a couple of
different companies and alongthe way, each company that I was
in I was able to find success.
And so people started asking mewhat are you doing?
You don't seem salesy or spammy.
You're different than a lot ofthe other network marketers we
(15:31):
see.
And I realized the piece that Ireally loved wasn't necessarily
the network marketing products,but it was coaching the women
and showing them how to buildteams, and it was my team calls
and getting to talk again,building those relationships
with people.
And I had a crazy idea, becauseI started listening to podcasts
and doing personal developmentthrough all of this and I was
(15:53):
like, well, okay, well, I'mgoing to start a podcast.
So the podcast actually camefirst, and so I started the
podcast and at the time it wascalled the Social Selling
Sisterhood, because I was reallyspecifically talking to network
marketers, cause that's reallywhat I knew.
And then, um, I created aplanner tracker, a free group.
You know all the.
You know all those small littlesteps that got me to where I'm
at now.
So like that's why I'm meetingwhen I say it's a journey, like
(16:16):
everything kind of cameincremental, it wasn't, you know
, just like an overnight sort ofthing.
And then when clients startedworking with me to get coached,
they weren't all networkmarketers and I was like, huh,
so I can help a bookkeeper, eventhough I don't really know much
about bookkeeping.
However, you know, the thingsthat I'm teaching will apply to
(16:37):
any business.
So, long story short, that'show I became a business coach
and so I started coaching aboutthree years ago and then added
in retreats, because I went tosome retreats and really loved
them and, like this is so fun, Iwant to create this for my
community.
And so you know, I've been inmastermind, so now I have my own
mastermind and I think thereally cool thing about doing
that is you get to take the bitsand pieces that you really love
(16:59):
and that work for you and makethem a part of your programs and
a part of your offerings.
But also you have seen what yourcoaches have done and even
though it didn't work for you,possibly you can still use those
techniques with your clients.
So it's almost like you havelike your little, your little
medicine bag with like all thestuff in it that you can like
(17:19):
pull out to help people.
Um, so, in that way has beensuper organic.
Now I'm trying to remember thesecond question.
I knew I would forget thesecond question, coaching and do
you remember the secondquestion?
Danielle La Rose (17:31):
I don't remember, because I worded it as
like one whole random thoughtprocess question how did you
become a coach?
And Well, let me go here andthen it'll probably come to us
or we'll come up with a newquestion Um, but what I wanted
to just call out that I think isreally cool is how you said.
It is like so organic.
(17:53):
You know, you didn't startsaying I'm going to be a
business coach to all thesepeople.
It was like, okay, I started inthis company, then I moved
companies and then I was likelet's do a podcast and then
let's add this and let's addthat.
And you really just went withwhat made sense for you in the
moment and like what you felt,like I have the ability and
qualities to be able to helpother people in this way, and
(18:15):
you just built on to it.
You know, I think so often,especially in our social media
world, where we just see someoneand we just think, you know,
they woke up one morning andthey decided they're going to be
like the best motivationalspeaker in the whole world and
20,000 people showed up to watchthem and end of story right,
without realizing that so manypeople.
(18:36):
It started with one thing.
It started with one idea onepodcast, one email, one this,
one that, and just based off ofand, like you said, you know you
.
Again, it comes back to thatself-awareness of what you
realized you were good at andwhat you really enjoyed the most
about the process and said okay, what can I, what can I do with
(18:56):
this?
Right, like, how can I use thisto build from here, to build
what you are building now andyou're not done now, right, like
, next week you'll come up withanother idea and be like, let me
add this to it and then let meadd that, and then you'll keep
adding to that medicine bag thatyou mentioned, you know, and I
just think that that that isreally, really cool.
So maybe this is the questionthat I had, and I don't even
(19:19):
know if it was the question, butI actually remember Okay, okay,
go ahead.
Lindsay Dollinger (19:22):
We're talking Cause you kind of what you said
was kind of basically my answeranyway, but it was hard to find
the confidence to do all ofthat.
And it's one step at a time,right Like trial and error, not
being afraid to fall on yourface even though you actually
might be, um, but you know, onestep at a time, but anyway, go
ahead with your question.
Yeah, you know, one step at atime, but anyway, go ahead with
your question.
Danielle La Rose (19:40):
Yeah, no, but that yes.
So, one step at a time, andthis is probably going to be the
answer to your next question,or you can elaborate more.
But if there's someonelistening who is like, okay, but
I have this dream right, like Iwant to be the best bookkeeper
with millions of dollars, or Iwant to be that motivational
speaker, I want to be the nextgreat business coach, like
Lindsay, like what would youtell that person?
Like where do they start?
(20:01):
Especially right, you and Iboth have this experience right,
working a full-time job, tryingto start something on this side
.
Right, while also living a lifetraveling doing the things.
But if that person's like, okay, I really want to do something.
Like I have this thing thatfeels right, what would you tell
them?
Like where to start?
Lindsay Dollinger (20:22):
I think you get to make it a priority, first
of all, if it is something thatyou truly, truly desire.
And I heard this on a podcast,and I don't remember whose it
was, but I was like, oh my gosh,that is so cool.
He was basically saying and itwas a gentleman who was the
podcast host If you spend Ithink it was two hours a day,
(20:42):
two hours a day, five times aweek, on the one thing that you
want to be become the best inthe world bookkeeper, coach,
whatever by the end of a year oh, it was Ed Milet, ed Milet's
recent podcast, but anyway, bythe end of a year you will be
and I forget the exact number,but like 80% better than
everyone else who has ever triedto do that thing, and I think
(21:05):
that speaks such volumes forconsistency.
Um, because showing upconsistently doesn't have to be
the same thing as beingconsistent.
Wait, wait, what's the wordshowing up?
I'm going to totally mess thisup.
Consistently is not the same asconstantly, and I think people
(21:28):
get those two mixed up or thinkthat they're the same thing.
And so for me, when I was veryfirst starting out and I'm like
I don't even know what to do youknow, whatever, 15 minutes a
day.
And that was my consistency,where I'm fitting it in for sure
at lunch every day, and then ifI had some extra time, great.
If I didn't, that was fine.
I didn't let myself get beatendown about that, but it wasn't
(21:52):
that I had to be doing it 24-7in order to start, in order to
just take that next step forward.
Have that one more conversation.
Pull up that video on YouTube.
I found videos on YouTube.
I literally typed in like powerhour for my business and I
pulled up.
I found these like recordingsand I played them and I did what
(22:12):
it said to do.
It was like these random peopleon YouTube and I would pull
that up and I would listen to itat work.
So I had a half an hour lunchbreak, so I would go get my
lunch and I would come up and bythat time I had about 20
minutes left and so I would do20 minutes of that power hour
and I would push pause and thenthe next day at lunch I would
push play and I do the next 20minute chunk.
And you know, I just did thatand I did it consistently.
(22:37):
Why is this so hard?
Consistently?
But it wasn't something I hadto do constantly, if that makes
sense.
So, yeah, that was my baby step.
Danielle La Rose (22:48):
Yeah, that that makes sense.
So, yeah, that one baby step,yeah, that makes complete sense,
because and I also really lovethat everything for you.
What I'm hearing throughout,like all of this is
resourcefulness, right, Like ifyou and you said it if you want
something bad enough, you'llfind a way.
And so you just said, like Iwent on YouTube and I looked for
a business power hour, right.
And then, with traveling, right, like you Googled how to travel
(23:11):
for free, how to get grants,how to do these things, where so
many people sit back andthey're like, oh well, that's
not possible, that doesn't workfor me.
Nothing, you know there's.
There wouldn't be anything likethat, instead of just saying,
well, let me see what ispossible and what I can do, and
well, let me see what ispossible and what I can do, and
then, with that whole, you know,if you want it bad enough,
you'll figure out a way.
You know, like you said, yeah,it was an hour long video, but
(23:35):
you said, okay, I got 20 minutes, let me do 20 minutes every
single day, right.
And so that's that consistencypiece.
Is that every day or whateveryou decide, is consistent for
you?
But I do think, especially withyou know maybe even more so now
we think of, to be successful inbusiness, you have to be
constant.
You have to constantly be onsocial media.
(23:55):
You have to constantly be doingthings, sending emails, showing
up, like it just feels hard tobe able to do that, and what
you're really saying is yo,homies, like I did this in 20
minutes, chunks of time, likebecause I wanted to, and so
that's what it really comes downto, right.
(24:16):
So for you, with doing likeyour business, coaching and
things, what's one of thebiggest struggles that you see?
A lot of women, cause I knowyou work mainly with women, but
people in general um, what doyou see as like the biggest
thing that holds a lot of peopleback when it comes to business?
Lindsay Dollinger (24:37):
So one thing that I see a lot in my current
clients is trying to be at thesame level of as someone else
when they haven't put in thebuilding blocks to get to that
yet.
So they might take a you know,a free course, or even buy a
course on launching, but theydon't even have the foundations
(24:57):
of their business down yet.
And I'm like, girlfriend, whatare you launching, you know?
And so that comparing ourselvesto others I don't think is
always a bad thing.
I think a little healthycompetition sometimes or seeing
what's out there and what'sworking for other people can be
a good thing if you do it anduse it in the correct way.
But I also think it's so easyfor us to get caught into the
(25:19):
trap of seeing where someoneelse is and not knowing, like,
okay, well, lindsay's been doingthis for eight years.
Compared to me, her launch isgoing to be a little different
or when people see and sometimesI can put out three emails and
I make sales, but it hasn'talways been that way, like there
has definitely been times whereI had to do a lot more or I had
to be, you know, dming or doinga lot more live videos than I
(25:41):
have to now because I've put inthat time and build up those
foundations.
And so I think, wanting to skipsome of those pieces to build
up the foundations, or thinkingmaybe you can take a shortcut by
, I don't know, automatingsomething and I'm a queen of
automation, trust me, I'm allfor automating.
But automating something orjust skipping some of those key
(26:03):
pieces and you probably couldit's just gonna either take
longer or you're gonna havelittle holes that fill in your
business, and I'm a big fan oftaking your time, getting it
really strong at the base andthen building everything as you
go, so you have something that'sactually gonna last for you.
Danielle La Rose (26:21):
And can we just say that that's true of
like every part of life.
Right, like everyone wants toskip the life.
Right, like everyone wants toskip the steps.
Right, like when I'm cooking mydinner, I'm like do I really
have to do this part?
Like I just want to get to theend and have the delicious meal,
right and same, with, like youknow, wellness.
I'm, you know, coaching womenwith body image and they're like
(26:41):
, can I just do the workouts andeat the food and just like,
lose the weight?
And I'm like I mean you can,but it ain't, it's not going to
work for you long-term, sister,cause you're going to end up
right back where you were, causewe haven't built that
foundation.
So everything in life, right,and I know business is one of
the best, and I know you kind ofmentioned this, like with
network marketing, business isone of the best.
(27:02):
Like personal developmentopportunities.
Right, like we grow so much asas business owners, just
personally, mentally, becauseeverything can be applied like
that foundation piece right,like that can be applied to
every other part of our life.
Like stop skipping the steps.
Like start with the foundation.
Um, I love it, okay, uh.
So can we jump to like somerapid fire fun questions.
(27:25):
Yeah, let's do it, okay, okay.
So I feel like I have to switchthem up a little bit for you.
Okay Okay, you can hang outwith one Disney character and
they become like real.
Who do you hang out with?
Lindsay Dollinger (27:37):
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, this is too much
pressure.
Okay, I have to say the LittleMermaid, because I really think
I can still see myself beinglike how old was I when that
movie came out?
Like three or something, likebelting out those songs.
I'm like I'm pretty sure that'sthe reason I want to travel.
(27:57):
It was definitely the LittleMermaid.
So I want to be BFF with theLittle Mermaid.
Danielle La Rose (28:03):
I am obsessed with this answer.
I love that, All right.
What is one?
Oh man, you kind of answeredthat already, but I'll ask One
movement or exercise that youenjoy that makes you feel
powerful.
Lindsay Dollinger (28:15):
Ooh yeah, I'm going to have to go with my
Peloton bike.
I really love that.
However, I do really love agood half marathon, particularly
the ones at Disney.
Those are really fun.
Danielle La Rose (28:25):
Yeah, um, okay , so you can have one meal for
the rest of your life.
What do you choose?
Lindsay Dollinger (28:32):
Ooh, um, this is probably a really lame
answer.
I really like barbecue chickensalads.
Danielle La Rose (28:39):
Oh, okay, do you get them from a specific
place?
Lindsay Dollinger (28:42):
Best of both worlds?
Um, not necessarily, but I doreally like the ones at um
California pizza kitchen, ifthey still have them.
I haven't been there forever,but they used to have really
okay, Um, good answer.
Danielle La Rose (28:56):
Now I feel like I need to try.
I'm not a salad person, but nowI feel like I need to try one
of those.
Lindsay Dollinger (29:01):
You would like it.
I feel like okay.
Danielle La Rose (29:04):
So best Disney movie ever created.
Lindsay Dollinger (29:09):
Oh, no, um, ever, ever, ever, ever.
Okay, I'm gonna go with.
I really like frozen.
So I'm going to go with frozen.
I think just the wholestoryline is really good.
Danielle La Rose (29:30):
Okay, what is one daily or consistent habit
that helps you step more intoyour confidence and self-love?
Lindsay Dollinger (29:39):
sleep.
I got really clear on myboundaries for sleep a few years
ago and it like changed my life.
So my sleep is pretty muchnon-negotiable, unless I'm doing
like an overnight flight toEurope, in which case I will
sacrifice my sleep for that.
But other than that, I need mysleep.
Danielle La Rose (29:56):
I love it A certain number of hours, or like
okay, this is going to soundreally crazy.
Lindsay Dollinger (30:01):
I prefer like nine.
I'm a nine hour girl.
I listened to a podcast on theChalene show with Chalene
Johnson.
She had a sleep expert on a fewyears ago and it like basically
taught you to track how muchbody you're like when your REM
cycle was, and yada yada.
So anyway, either seven and ahalf or nine are my sweet spots.
Danielle La Rose (30:22):
Good to know what is one song that makes you
feel powerful.
Lindsay Dollinger (30:30):
Oh my gosh, what's it called?
I literally have it up overhere and I can't think of um.
It's a song.
It's the song by Lily, is itMayola Um daydream?
Have you heard that song?
Danielle La Rose (30:41):
I have not, but I will go listen after this.
Lindsay Dollinger (30:43):
I will send it to you.
She won Um, I think it wasAmerica's Got Talent and I love
that song.
It's super empowering.
Danielle La Rose (30:54):
Oh, I'm going to add it to my playlist, okay.
So who is one powerful?
Lindsay Dollinger (31:02):
woman who has inspired you in your life.
Let me go with my mama.
Danielle La Rose (31:07):
I love it.
Last one If there was onepowerful piece of advice you
could leave for little girls orwomen, what would it be?
Lindsay Dollinger (31:22):
You have all of the power and talent and
everything that you need insideyou.
You don't need the validationfrom anyone else to do anything
that is put on your heart.
So go out there and do thething.
Danielle La Rose (31:37):
So good.
I love that.
I'm going to put that on repeatand just play it to myself
every single day.
I love it Because I love whenpeople always ask me, you know
with my girl, empowermentprograms and stuff like what age
are they for?
And I'm like, well, home, girl,you might be like you might be
47, but you need the sameprogram that my seven-year-old
needs.
You know, like we all, we allneed the same messages and
(31:59):
reminders.
It's so good.
Okay, Is there anything beforewe say goodbye, Are there?
Is there anything we didn'tcover?
Where you're like, oh man, Ireally wanted to share this with
our friends listening that Imight not have asked you.
Lindsay Dollinger (32:17):
I don't know if it's that you didn't ask me,
but I was thinking of this story, um, when you were talking
about something.
I forget what you had asked me,but there was a moment in my
network marketing journey that Iwanted to share because it was
the one that I referenced a lotwith.
A switch went off in my mind,and I had been in my business
(32:39):
about three and a half years.
By that point.
I had done several differentcompanies and I had just kind of
plateaued at a certain level.
In all of them I had a team andI was seeing success.
And so I was at my nationalconference with some of my
teammates and I was listening toall these top, top, top leaders
speak on the stage, andeverything that they said was
(33:01):
stuff that I knew, and I justhad this moment in this audience
that I was like, why not me?
And I just want you to hearthat message, if you're
listening to this and you havefelt that same way, like I know
all this stuff that these womenare saying and you know what?
What are they doing that I'mnot doing?
And the answer is literallyjust that they are taking action
(33:22):
, and so I left that speech.
I went up to my hotel room, um,I had my team come up and I was
like, all right, ladies, we aredoing action.
And so I left that speech.
I went up to my hotel room.
I had my team come up and I waslike, all right, ladies, we are
doing this, we are going all in.
And I was like I'm walking onthat stage.
Next year I'm going to berecognized, we are going to be
the top team, like all thisstuff.
And we didn't get to the verytop, but I walked that stage the
(33:42):
next year.
We grew I don't even know whatpercentage.
It was insane and it was just amindset shift.
So if you are feeling that wayin any aspect of your life, you
know it doesn't even have to bebusiness related but if you're
looking at that person andyou're like, why can't I be
healthy like her, or why can't Ihave X, y, z like her, you
(34:03):
can't like.
This is your reminder that youcan, you know, find the way,
like you said, be resourceful,be disciplined enough to go
after it and take that action onthat thing, because if not,
you're going to be sitting herein a year asking yourself that
same question, and we don't wantthat Mic drop.
Danielle La Rose (34:21):
That was that, was it Like.
Now I'm like okay, Lindsay, wegot to stop talking now because
I got to go take action, Lindsayjust said it.
Lindsay Dollinger (34:27):
That's right, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Danielle La Rose (34:29):
Okay.
Thank you so much for that,lindsay.
For those that are listeningand they're like okay, I need
more Lindsay in my life.
I love Disney, I love to travel.
I want to do the business thing, like tell me all the things,
where would you like them tocome hang out with you?
And I'll drop the link so theycan just click but where's your
favorite places to hang outwhere you would want people to
come hang out with you?
Lindsay Dollinger (34:48):
You can find me on Instagram or Facebook.
I'm Lindsay Dollinger on bothof them.
Feel free to find my personalpage.
Business page doesn't reallymatter to me because I talk to
people on both.
And if you love podcasts,because you're listening to this
one, you can find me at thePurpose and Pixie Dust podcast.
Danielle La Rose (35:03):
Yay, perfect, and, like I said, I'll drop the
link so they can click and go.
Fabulous, lindsay, you areamazing.
Thank you so much for beinghere.
I love you as a friend and allyour business stuff and the
Disney and all the things.
You are just killing it andhelping so many women.
So thank you for being here.
I appreciate you.
Lindsay Dollinger (35:20):
Thank you so much, danielle, I appreciate you
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