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Mastering Cash Flow for New Business Owners: The Hidden Key to Your Business’s Success

One of the most common challenges new business owners face is properly managing their finances—especially when it comes to separating personal and business finances. Did you know that mixing the two is one of the leading causes of financial chaos in small businesses? According to Bank of America, keeping personal and business finances separate not only helps you manage cash flow better but also protects your personal assets, builds business credit, and simplifies your tax situation.

In this blog, I’ll guide you through understanding cash flow management, a critical piece of keeping your business finances on track and separating them from your personal life.

The Challenge: Why Cash Flow is the Hidden Key to Business Success

Many business owners experience the stress of not having enough cash to cover expenses, even when their business is bringing in decent revenue. Dipping into personal savings or using personal credit cards to cover business expenses often...

How to Break Free from Invisible Boundaries and Unleash Your True Potential

By Stephanie Willis

In life, we often find ourselves constrained by invisible boundaries—limitations that, although unseen, significantly shape our experiences and hold us back from reaching our full potential. These boundaries, formed by upbringing, societal expectations, and personal experiences, can subtly dictate how we view ourselves and the world around us. The good news is that once we recognize them, we can work to break free.

In this post, I’ll guide you through identifying these invisible barriers and share powerful strategies for unleashing your true potential.

Recognizing the Invisible Boundaries

The first step toward transformation is awareness. Invisible boundaries are often deeply ingrained and hard to see. To recognize them, reflect on areas in your life where you feel stuck or limited. Ask yourself:

What beliefs or experiences are contributing to these feelings?
Where did these beliefs come from?

Whether these limitations stem from past experiences,...

When Getting to the Table Is Not Enough

My friend Sheikh and I live just 21 miles apart. We are roughly the same age, share the same values, and we have both experienced the pain of having a child born very premature and struggle to survive. It would be easy to think that we speak regularly since we can relate to each other’s story so well. However, the last time we spoke we were both 860 miles away from where we live in Orlando, Florida at an event. Prior to that, we were 4,611 miles from home in Asuncion, Paraguay.

This past week after exchanging several text messages, Sheikh and I planned to “catch up” over dinner while we were once again in Florida together. We were finally elbow to elbow for nearly an hour, but unable to speak more than pleasantries because others around the table kept asking us questions. In fact, all I could tell you at that point was that my friend had a little more gray hair than the last time I saw him and that his family was doing...

Valuing the ‘Big Win’

As a young girl, I remember how empowered I felt when someone challenged me. The power that came from my belief that I could be the best at anything I wanted to do. I was a runner and I believed that I could always learn to run faster and further in order to win. I knew it would take a lot of hard work and practice, but I never doubted that I could achieve the results I wanted……winning. I pushed myself everyday to get better and I did, but I didn’t just apply this philosophy and belief to running. I applied it in every aspect of my life and eventually, ‘winning’ wasn’t always possible. The older I got, the more I experienced situations where winning just wasn’t going to happen and no matter how good I was, there was always someone, somewhere better at it than me. The more I lost, the less I tried.

At a crucial turning point in my life I realized I no longer saw challenges as something I could overcome. As a...