Ep 129: Shifting from Scarcity: A New Approach for Women Entrepreneurs to Redefine Their Money Story
Episode Summary
Are you unknowingly letting scarcity rule your business decisions?
Many women entrepreneurs unknowingly let the fear of being without money hold them back and limit growth, but this episode provides strategies to foster abundance and success.
In this episode, you will:
Uncover hidden ways scarcity may be silently sabotaging your business growth.
Learn how subtle shifts in language and mindset can unlock dramatic increases in clients, revenue, and time freedom.
Leave with a powerful evaluation technique to unlock opportunities that currently feel beyond your reach.
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The Uncommon Way is led by business coach Jenna Harrison, who helps women entrepreneurs feel confident, find their ideal clients effortlessly and avoid overwork so they can manifest money and abundance in their business and life.
This podcast empowers female entrepreneurs to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and limiting beliefs through somatics, mindset, and spirituality, create 7-figure offers, and build an online service business with clarity and alignment.
Full Episode Transcript:
Jenna Harrison: [00:00:00] Listen, you are never just saving money. You're saving money and spending time.
You're listening to the uncommon way, business and life coaching podcast, the podcast that helps women entrepreneurs get clear on signature offers and strategies that sell themselves. So you can lean back and stop the hustle. You will learn to maximize your mindset, messaging, and strategy, and step into the uncommonly successful business.
and life you are creating. Here's your host, top ranked business coach and reformed overanalyzer turned queen of clarity, Jenna Harrison.
Welcome. Welcome back to the uncommon way. In today's hot take, we're talking about leaving scarcity behind for good. Particularly money scarcity, where you feel like [00:01:00] money's really tight, or that it soon will be if you don't watch out, you are going to see some hidden ways that scarcity sabotages your business.
You'll learn how subtle shifts in language and mindset can unlock dramatic increases. In clients, revenue and time freedom, and you'll walk away with an evaluation technique that will open up opportunities that currently seem out of reach. You know, actually, I can spot scarcity right away in how someone sets their pricing or talks to their clients, or even just in the everyday way they talk.
For instance, if I ask someone to tell me about why their offer so great and the first thing out of their mouth is. Oh, it's a really great price. Then I know right away that their primary focus is on low priced things. And so they think that that's important to everyone. And if you're [00:02:00] operating from a place of fear or neediness, it shows and your clients will feel it too on some level.
But the kicker is that when you're in a scarcity mindset, you end up working harder for less. Which ironically creates exactly what you're trying to avoid. Less money, less time, and more stress. It is time to leave scarcity behind, whether that scarcity is clients, money, or time. It's quarter four. It's time we explore how scarcity influences every decision you make and how it impacts the clients and opportunities you attract.
One of my clients was a perfect example of this. She was charging 65 an hour for her services, wondering why she couldn't seem to get ahead and thinking the problem was that she didn't know how to market herself well on specific platforms. Like next door, but after a quick glance at her [00:03:00] website and asking her a few quick questions, I knew it had nothing to do with the platform.
I knew it was all about her mindset and specifically her belief that money was so tight that it must be for everyone else too. And she was projecting that onto prospective clients. Once she shifted that, she confidently started offering 6, 500 packages, and the opportunities then flowed in. I talk more about that in an episode that I'll link to.
Listen, you are never just saving money. You're saving money and spending time. Or spending something else. Maybe worry. Like if you buy a cheaper car but you're always worried it's going to break down. There's a cost. But in scarcity mode, we value money over all else. Why? Time is the most limited resource, not money.
[00:04:00] Money is renewable. You can grow more of it, in probably a million ways. So what if you stopped undervaluing your time and started making decisions based on both time and money? This shift can be the key to unlocking a work life balance that you never thought possible. It can also create money because let's say you invest in a coach or mentorship program or a degree.
Yes, it costs you something, but whenever you can make money quicker, you then make more money in the long run, thanks to compounding interest or the investment potential of that money. Scarcity is often more about perception than reality. You might think you don't have enough time or money or whatever, but your brain's only offering you one perspective.
As Lynn Twist explains in her book, The Soul of Money, your experience of [00:05:00] scarcity or abundance is tied to how you perceive your circumstances. For instance, there are people around the world with much less who feel less scarcity than you. They feel more abundant than you. While some of the wealthiest people feel even more scarcity than you.
It's not necessarily what you have, it's how you think about what you have. We often say, I can't afford it, when the real truth is, I don't want to spend money on this. And that knee jerk language not only keeps you in the story of your scarcity, but it also keeps you from examining the truth about why maybe you don't want to spend money on that.
Your language either reinforces scarcity or helps you shift towards sufficiency. If you are struggling to move from scarcity to abundance, don't worry. It's a big leap. Start by focusing on what you do have [00:06:00] and move forward from a place of sufficiency. Sufficiency meaning you really do have enough. You may not be at abundance yet, which is more than you need.
But you do have what you need. That is the first step to abundance, my friend, and this powerful yet simple mindset shift could transform how you relate to money, time, and opportunity. If you're ready to go deeper on this topic, and you want to learn practical tips and more mindset shifts that even billion dollar companies rely on, tune in to episode 116, Breaking From Scarcity.
Three powerful tips for women entrepreneurs rewriting their money story from lack to abundance. It's going to help you recalibrate and really create the space for what truly matters in your life.
Thanks for joining us here at the [00:07:00] uncommon way. If you want more tips and resources for developing clarity in your business in life, including the clarity first strategy for growing and scaling your business, visit the uncommon way. com. See you next time.
