We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Darla Bishop a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Darla, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Can you talk to us about your team building process? How did you recruit and train your team and knowing what you know now would you have done anything differently?

I didn’t have the money for a full team, and my business doesn’t require it yet. One of the ways that I keep it all going on the “growing my business” budget is I ask what is it I really need off my plate so I can stay in my zone of genius, then get to work finding the right helpers for that. I love the ability to buy fractional support, its perfect for me as I ride the wave of running a business and I get to find and try out team members along the way so I can keep a running list of the people who would be on my dream team when my business needs the full time help. To run my business, I have the help of a virtual assistant 20 hours a month, a PR team, a fractional book keeper, and a system to keep myself organized in between. This has allowed me to make investments in ad-hoc and freelance experts when I need to understand getting to the next step, then doing the work using their guidance.

The wonderful thing about running your own business, is that you get to build it to work how you work. Don’t be afraid to try something, always be willing to ask for what you want, sometimes the answer is ok, we can make that work.

Darla, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I believe that working people deserve to feel like they can afford everything, everything they need to everything that brings them peace, everything they want, whatever that means for them.

Part of the reason I wrote a book and I’m doing this work is because so many of the books and articles out there were missing something I needed. 1. If you’re starting out or starting over, you need a road map. Getting my money life to a good place was not something I’d done before, I didn’t have examples so I turned to books (reading more than 100), to figure out how money actually worked, and it took me too long to understand, as a person starting out and starting over, where to start, how to prioritize, and when to know I was on the right track. The second piece, so many of the books I read gave me NO CREDIT for all the expertise I did have as someone who knew how to live without money, or the mountains I had to climb to get to where I was. So many told me I was a bad person, or irresponsible, or made bad choices, and it just wasn’t true. I made the best out of the situation I was born into and I was tired of books telling me I needed to fix my bad habits, most of which were the only way I survived in the hardest time, instead of teaching me how to turn those skills on their head so I could learn to live WITH money.

When I work with someone, we work on the parts of money management that aren’t math. Their relationship, habits, and beliefs around money. ..The values that matter most in the present, and how to make the money work for them and in alignment.

I’m so proud, and downright grateful, that the people who find me, get what they need. Something they’ve needed to hear to give them to energy, and information to start (again) and get the money thing right.

How did you build your audience on social media?

I have spend a lot of time podcast guesting. I love the intimate conversation with a host, that the audience gets to listen in on. Booking podcasts is so wonderful. There has never been a better time to use podcast guesting as a way to increase your visibility and magnetically attract dream clients! You get to share your story, then you have a ton of audio and video countent to reshare to your audience while you meet the host’s audience. On top of that, podcast hosts feel like they know you after your conversation (and the editing time) so they make amazing referall sources.

How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?

I am a military spouse, so the army gives me the opportunity to change my whole life every 2.7 years (ha ha). The beauty in the restart is that you get to face what matters most when everything around you is changing and double down on keeping those things safe.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://darlabishop.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/my_finansis/
• Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/darlabishop

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