THE RISE with Sara Connell (Sara Connell)

This year has been challenging for many entrepreneurs - in this episode, we’ll take on hidden Abundance Blockers that could be stalling or preventing your diligent actions from producing the financial success you want and deserve.

Learn this 4 step process I’ve used to achieve even my most impossible sounding goals.

Key Topics:

• The 4 steps to move from resistance to empowered action 
• How to “download” intuitive guidance 
• Re-programming your mind for success using neuroscience
  
  If you want to train with me live to create a bestselling book or other high converting content- I’ll gift you a free ticket to our upcoming Bestelling Book Bootcamp: 
  https://www.saraconnell.com/bestselling-book-intensive

Visionary entrepreneur Jen Gaudet will show you how time and money and not your problem and what to make your top priority instead

Download the Abundance Rising Roadmap here:

https://www.saraconnell.com/abundance-rising-roadmap

Check out Jen's website here:
https://jengaudetcoaching.com

Key topics:

- Free yourself from shoulds and what you THINK you’re supposed to do 
- How doing what you don’t love can cost you everything in business and personal life
- Why ENERGY is more important than time and money in becoming a 7 figure thought leader
- How to succeed by thinking and acting like an elite athlete
- How to work less and make millions

The answer to the question I get asked at speaking engagements and in interviews: Is writing a book worth it?

In this episode find out the 7 impact generating, revenue generating, legacy building “doors” that have opened for me and other authors once we WROTE THE BOOK

Key topics:

• How your book idea isn’t just about you- but being called forth from those who need it
• Why writing a book is an act of self-love and purpose
• How a book can open doors to media, interviews, speaking and impact
• The secret question that will reveal if writing a book is WORTH IT to you

Resources
If you’re ready to write your bestseller, here is a (free) guest pass to the Bestselling Book Bootcamp. I’ll guide you through the step by step process I use to write a book in 6 weeks when it used to take me 3 years

Register here:

https://www.saraconnell.com/bestselling-book-intensive

Learn RISE secrets from Jane’s new book WORTHY that let her defy the odds, her upbringing and expectations & now lead a movement.

Key Topics:

• How to ignore what authority figures told you and create your own destiny
• How to handle competition and sabotage
• When someone says you can’t, how to play “watch me” and do it anyway
• Trusting your gut to the corner office
• When others go low, how to go high
• After you make the money for yourself, you often are called to make the money for a cause
• Picking a cause that matters
  

Here is the link to Jane's book "Worthy: From Cornfields to Corner Office of Microsoft, Stories of Overcoming":

https://www.amazon.com/Worthy-Cornfields-Microsoft-Stories-Overcoming/dp/B0CNSL3J5K/ref=sr_1_1?crid=TZZQFQX2XKJA&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jaQ5i6FvPUjmA8ScQf8Sl7m9kNyB-s2WgHVEN5bTspo.WE2CITNu_OdvjmbQwDj7rkOd7LPLB6YjtwiuwPST4pA&dib_tag=se&keywords=jane+boulware+worthy&qid=1714584871&sprefix=jane+bolware+w%2Caps%2C132&sr=8-1&

Download our 7 Steps to Write a Revenue Generating Bestselling Bookl Freebie here:
https://www.saraconnell.com/7-steps-to-write-a-revenue-generating-bestselling-book

Find out if the fear of rejection is holding you back and learn a new 3 part paradigm that will set you up for the identity and experience of success

Key Topics

• The neuroscience of rejection 
• How to know if the fear of rejection is keeping you small
• The day that changed everything about the way I view rejection
• The root of your fear and how to release it
• How to “retire rejection” completely and develop a “WIN-SUCCESS” only identity
• A new paradigm and key strategies to play big, take big action and create big results in the next 30 days
  
  Get your free ticket to the Viral Visibility Masterclass here:https://www.saraconnell.com/viral-visibility-masterclass

Your subconscious controls over 80% of your decisions and therefore most of your results. Learn how to identify blocks to your next level and unlock the potential within you.

Key Topics:

• Getting to the root of procrastination, avoidance and fear around going to your next level
• The role of subconscious blocks and how they can impede your rise
• Learn a powerful release technique to dissolve resistance and get into action around your most important goals

If writing a book this year is one of your goals I’ll gift you a free ticket to our upcoming Bestelling Book Bootcamp:

https://www.saraconnell.com/bestselling-book-intensive

Data in the first half of 2024 shows buyer trust at an all time low! Instead of feeling anxiety about this, learn about the Trust Valley and the 4 step process to RISE yourself out and bring your ideal clients with you.

Key Topics:
- Why consumer trust is at a low

- The Trust Valley and it’s surprising gifts

- How to not take hesitancy, lower sales and lack of engagement personally

- The antidote to lack of trust

- Raising your LQ: love quotient (love of your work, your people and your mission) will speed your rise to your next summit

- Identify the action you will take this week to turn the trust valley into your next 10X idea

We’re celebrating International Women’s Month with the launch of The Rise podcast! Learn strategies to launch a podcast, learn about the origin of the show and meet audience members at this virtual party!

You’ll also experience a guided “activation” (brain science based mindset technique) to accelerate YOUR RISE to the next level of income, impact and success.

When markets contract, your ideal people/clients do too- find out the 4 essential empowering steps to breakout of fear, doubt and resistance and be a powerful leader who RISES in any economy.

Key Topics:

• This year calls for SUPERNATURAL Leaders
• 4 strategies to empower your Leadership and attract ideal clients in any market
• Using thought leadership: books, speaking and videos to magnetize to your ideal clients and RISE impact and income
• The surprising success equation that will differentiate you from everyone else in your space
• If you want me to train you LIVE on these strategies, be sure to access you (free) spot in the Bestselling Book Bootcamp starting May 28th-31st. I’ll show you step by step how to start or finish your bestseller and book speaking WHILE your write: https://www.saraconnell.com/bestselling-book-intensive

Find out the 3 essential things you need to economy, recession and election proof your business and vision NOW!

Key Topics

• The 1 factor that will determine your revenue and impact over the next 12 months + 
  
  
• How every market and situation holds a big opportunity
  
  
• The current “triple threat” econoomy and how it’s affecting coaches, experts  and entrepreneurs
  
  
• The antidote: becoming a Triple Power
  
  
• The 3 things you need in place to RISE as a Triple Power over the next 12 months

If you would like to receive the FREE 7 Easy Steps to Set & Smash Your 90 Day Goals worksheet, email us at care@saraconnell.com with the subject line "90 DAYS"

Continuing our Viral Visibility series, learn GOLD lessons from 2 Olympic Greats: LeBron James & Illana Maher

Key Topics:
* Why even the most visible people still work to get in front of new audiences (and why this matters even when you’re getting started)

* How a women’s rugby star is using TikTok to empower young girls around body image

* The wisdom of LeBron and what it has to do with YOU getting 10X more visible

* The Next visibility producing action you need to take to make a bigger impact and more revenue this year


If you want support creating your Personal Viral Visibility Plan-we’re gifting a few strategy sessions just for our audience:

https://calendly.com/saraconnellcoaching/your-personal-viral-visibility-plan

Ready to RISE your impact, leadership and revenue this year? By the end of this episode you’ll know the 5 things every coach, expert and entrepreneur must do to increase impact and income in the next 12 months.

We’re diving into real life stories so expect lifelong lessons from my high school crew coach, inspiration from Top Chef (seriously) and the tear-jerking moment from a musical theatre enthusiast turned inspirational strategy coach.

02:31 - Can you be the lighthouse when all you see is darkness? (ACTION #1) 

11:21 - How to TRULY stand out from the crowd (ACTION #2)

17:05 - Why your next client needs 7-9 hours of interactive time with you before they buy (ACTION #3)

18:56 - Creative ways to SHOW NOT TELL your incredible results (ACTION #4)

22:17 - The #1 hack to being more innovative (ACTION #5)

Extra support for your rise journey:

• Get my (free!) RISE ROADMAP here 

• Want the FULL Thought Leader Academy Book with my best strategies to become a leader in your industry?? DM me BOOK on Instagram @saraconnell and we’ll get you a free copy!

It may be time to UNBOX yourself- find out how with guest Bestselling Author Betsy Pepine

Key Topics:

* The hidden boxes we put ourselves in

* How the box you’re in is holding you back

* A simple strategy to break free even from a box that seems all pervasive

* How to release guilt and people pleasing

* How Thought Leader Betsy Pepine’s new book on “unboxing” is building her legacy

If you want to be the next BESTSELLING AUTHOR, join me for the TRIPLE POWER Bestselling Book Bootcamp 

https://www.saraconnell.com/bestselling-book-intensive

Check out Betsy’s Book here

In this new series, learn about VA: Visibility Intelligence and how this one thing can set you on a new trajectory for impact and income for the next 6 months and beyond.

Key Topics:
* What is VQ and how can it determine your success this year?

* How to find out your VQ level

* The first step in what is needed to become virally visible right now- to your ideal people

Want to make a big leap in your Visibility Quotient now? Here’s our new FREE Viral Visibility Roadmap that will walk you through it step by step:

https://www.saraconnell.com/viral-visibility-masterclass

Can you write a bestselling book in under 12 weeks? You sure can! If you want to finish any creative project in the next 12 weeks, find out the exact steps to ensure you make that vision a reality in the next 90 days!

Key topics:

• The 5 steps you need to take to start and finish a book or other big creative project in 90 days
• 3 ways to make the journey fun!
• The secret strategy that will make you finishing your book or other project non-negotiable and censure you follow through

In Part II in the Abundance Rising series, learn a breakthrough paradigm and key practices that will help you create more financial abundance with more EASE!

Learn this NEW breakthrough strategy that can create an instant WIN for you this week PLUS how to get your book on the bestseller list in PRE-ORDER

Key Topics:

• The key to your breakthrough: IGNORE THE LIMITING NARRATIVE & CREATE YOUR RISE
  
  
• The story you’re running (in your mind) will determine your results
  
  
• Find out if you have a limiting or and empowering story running your life
  
  
• A TURNAROUND to trade a limiting story for a powerful one
  
  
• The story of the Cleveland Guardians to transcend the “external narrative” and triumph
  
  
• How Thought Leader Academy member Jessica Beebe practiced this to hit BESTSELLER during PRE-ORDER (before her actual book launch)
  
  If you want to GET YOUR BOOK the bestseller list, use this link to attend the Bestselling Book Bootcamp as my guest:

https://www.saraconnell.com/bestselling-book-intensive

Learn the surprising way to grow profitability from this Multi 7 figure CEO

Key Topics:

• The #1 thing that can get you scale to 7 figures fast

• Mindset or Strategy- which is most important?

• A pathway to fasttrack your 3 year goal into several months

• What’s the POINT of making money (hint: according to Justin- it’s all about FREEDOM

• What is true financial freedom and how to get it

Learn more about Justin Buonomo's work here:

Website: https://journeytofinancialfreedom.co/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/justin_buonomo/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeytofinancialfreedom.co

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKM4gmtD9jWqACUF5zfCqmw

Resistance is Real! Learn a quick 3 step process to breakthrough, uplevel your habits & get into the actions that create success

Key Topics:

• WHY we don’t do the things that are good for us
• The 3 A’s of change
• The secret question you can use to cut through resistance and shift into success
• My A-B-C breakthrough framework that will align thoughts, emotions and actions with your vision and get you doing what you KNOW will move you forward
• How to use this fast to create success any minute you need it
  
  If you want to write a bestselling book BEFORE New Years, join me as my guest at our Bestselling Book Bootcamp:

https://www.saraconnell.com/bestselling-book-intensive

Find out if Visibility Resistance (procrastination, fear, imposter syndrome, & avoidance) is holding you back from greater productivity, impact and success and how to activate your power to break free!

Key Topics:
Visibility Resistance- the secret undertow to success

• The key symptoms and causes of VR

• What VR is costing you in income and legacy

• The next crucial step is breaking the resistance and getting into confidence and flow to be more visible

To get the whole breakthrough and double OR MORE your visibility in the next 90 days, bsure to reserve your free ticket to the Viral Visibility Masterclass here:

https://www.saraconnell.com/viral-visibility-masterclass

The Miracle factor - how to find it in yourself and use it for a miracle

Key Topics:

• You are wired for miracles
• The 3 steps to position yourself for a Miracle
• What stonecutting has to do with tenacity and miracle resilience 
• How to train your brain for Faith while the miracle unfolds
  

What you did to generate sales three years ago, even last year, is not the same as what’s needed this year. Rise your Q2 revenue with these strategies.

• Why your increased revenue benefits many people beyond yourself
• Are you DOING the actions that are a match to your revenue goal- if  not, what to start doing
• How to identify and take Aligned Action toward your revenue goal
• New research about majority of sales happening in follow up and how to put yourself into a position to succeed

Research has proven the power of Gratitude to heal mental and physical health conditions- even create miracles. In this episode discover the hidden power of DESIRE (wanting what you want) to accelerate and supercharge the manifestation of your next big goal.

Key Topics:

- How desire is often misunderstood and underrated 

- Desire as a manifestation tool (how and why it works!)

- A 3 step practice you can use today to get clear, release resistance and activate desire to accelerate the fulfillment of your goals this week

Does your childhood determine what type of person you’re going to be? In this episode we’re looking at what it takes to break out of old conditioning and 10X your chances of success. Remember here on THE RISE, we don’t just look at the summit, we breakdown what you can do to RISE to that next milestone. 

Get ready for actionable-yet-life-changing steps as we delve into the early days of one of the most renowned life coaches, self-help authors, and motivational speakers in the world—Tony Robbins!

02:31 - The “divine download” that led me to Tony Robbins’ YouTube videos

05:02 - Dissecting the link between identity (the inner rise) and Tony Robbins

07:20 - How 700 books in 7 years initiated his stratospheric success

13:29 - Can you secure mentorship without ANY connections?

16:48 - The two life changing two steps that started Tony Robbins RISE from janitor to world-famous thought leader

Extra support for your rise journey: 

• Get my (free!) RISE ROADMAP here 

• Want the FULL Thought Leader Academy Strategies? DM me BOOK on Instagram @saraconnell and we’ll get you a free copy!

Find out the 3 crucial factors you need to know when considering using AI to help write a book

Key Topics

• Is AI actually helpful in writing a book
• The risks of AI
• Why I use AI for research but NOT for the writing itself
• My secret process to expedite your book writing with AI that still allows you to write every word yourself
  
  BONUS: how to get out of resistance and GET WRITING!

What happens when life pulls you in an unexpected direction? Do  you answer the call or cling to the familiar? Is everyone able to connect to the spirit world? Come find out what all this has to do with THE RISE

• What does the business world have to do with the spirit world
• Mel Pharr’s RISE from 7 figure strategist to spiritual medium
• What the heck is a spiritual medium?
• How to “tune in” to guidance
• How to discern intuition vs fear and trust your guidance
• The most important entrepreneur lesson Mel’s learned from working with the spirit world 

Follow Mel and find out about her upcoming medium development circles: www.mediumshipwithmel.com/learn

Welcome to The RISE! Congratulations on taking the opportunity to learn how ‘the rise’ can unlock your greatest potential as a bestselling author, speaker and industry leader.

Rising to your greatest vision and potential will take work. But as the poet Rumi says “what you are seeking is seeking you” and I’m going to be here with you every step of the way. In fact, I’m here to guide you with my own secret RISE strategies and to glean the master tips and action steps from our most beloved authors and thought leaders.

So pick up your pen or open your laptop and get ready to map your RISE! The world is waiting for your legacy!

01:20 - How trauma held me back & my wholehearted intentions for The Rise

06:46 - What do you REALLY want this year?

11:01 - I gave up! The seeds were planted without fertile ground

14:12 - Are you waiting for permission?

17:33 - Three practices successful authors commit to

19:27 - The book that saved my life

24:45 - A real life inner rise: from disheartened lawyer to successful writer

27:00 - The difference between a writer and a published author is NOT what you think

Extra support for your rise journey:

• Get my (free!) RISE ROADMAP here

• Want the FULL Thought Leader Academy Roadmap? DM me BOOK on Instagram @saraconnell and we’ll get you a free copy!

Do you want to speak on bigger stages, podcasts, get paid for 5 figure keynotes? Find out the industry secret you need to to get booked for 80% more speaking engagements

Key topics:

• What more conferences, media producers, podcasts hosts and speaking bookers are requiring in 2024
• The author-speaker connection (why it will get you booked for exponentially more speaking engagements)
• Speaking accelerator: how to fasttrack your results
  
  

If you’re ready to rise your speaking- get your spot in the Bestselling Book Bootcamp starting May 28th. I’ll show you step by step how to start or finish your bestseller and book speaking WHILE you write.

https://www.saraconnell.com/bestselling-book-intensive

Find out WHY you may be resisting, procrastinating or avoiding making more $$$ and HOW (with just 2 strategies) you can smash that next glass ceilings!

Key Topics

•  The top reasons we fear the sales, offers, money conversations
• How to sell through GENEROSITY 
• The #1 strategy that took me from avoiding/resisting/fearing making offers to making millions per year in sales
• Reps= Revenue HOW to breakthrough your resistance and make money as a thought leader every day
  
  
  
  If you want to use a book to attract your ideal clients and make more sales, come be my guest at the Bestselling Book Bootcamp:

https://www.saraconnell.com/bestselling-book-intensive

Learn this new, secret 5 step strategy to create an epic next 90 days of increased sales, new clients, productivity and genius ideas.

Key topics:

• What your brain needs to manifest a goal
• The power sequence that will create focus, motivation
• A surprising move that accelerated results (I saw increased sales, attracted unexpected speaking opportunity and a $5K refund on a trip in the first 10 days of using this.)

If writing a book is on your 90 day plan, download our 7 steps to a revenue generating, bestselling book:

https://www.saraconnell.com/7-steps-to-write-a-revenue-generating-bestselling-book

Learn this surprising single strategy that took me from $20K to six figures//year and helped Joe Vitale (author of 50 bestsellers) make millions

Key Topics:

• The surprising single strategy that took me to my first 6 figures as an author-coach
• Prosperous Purchasing: what is it and how to use it to increase financial abundance immediately
• A quick look at  neuro-identity science behind prosperous purchasing
• How YOU can use this strategy THIS WEEK to increase your financial flow

Join me June 7th for a NEW (FREE) Masterclass on YOUR EPIC YEAR the 6 month SHIFT to align yourself with increased abundance, being seen as an industry leader and to impact 10X more people in the 2nd half of 2024.

Zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87942771198

In this episode find out the unexpected, life changing decision (you can apply to your life) this octogenarian (who happens to be my father) made that will make you say to your younger self: “you ain’t seen nothing yet!”

Key topics:

• Why we are not bound to the model of retirement society sets for us
• How decisions truly determine our destiny and how to make one that will make your later chapters the most exciting of your life
• The practice of reading a poem every day and why it’s good for your brain, body and soul
• How to create a life of profound meaning and gratitude

Learn how to get a bestselling book done in 90 days or less!

Key Topics:

• The 90 Day Bestseller Formula
• How to make the time to write
• 3 neuroscience based ways to wire your brain for writing motivation and success
• What it REALLY takes to cross the finish line
• How to make your success inevitable
  
  If you want to write a bestselling book BEFORE New Years, join me as my FREE guest at our Bestselling Book Bootcamp:

https://www.saraconnell.com/bestselling-book-intensive

I’ll walk you through a scorecard strategy that will make your success inevitable

Key Topics

• A game changing strategy to setting your goal up for success
• How to reverse engineer success with a 60 day scorecard
• My top way to identify which actions will result in the achievement of a goal
• How to motivate yourself to TAKE ACTION on a daily basis 
• Challenge to take 1 action by the time you go to bed tonight
  

If you do not already have a ticket, register here for the Viral Visibility Accelerator and our LIVE event in Chicago:

https://www.saraconnell.com/thought-leader-rising

Find out how bestselling author, speaker, mentor Angela Duncan who’s ex-husband told her “she would never succeed” going into business on her own ROSE to multi-millionaire mentor/speaker/author. 

Check out Angela's work here:
https://morewithangela.com/

Key Topics:

• What to do when someone close to you says “you can’t” do something (the WATCH ME! effect)
• Strategies to turn adversity into your next big breakthrough
• The #1 most important thing Angela did to go from $0 to $1Million and beyond
• Generosity as a superpower