How to Grow Your Business with Retreats, Seminars & Mastermind Groups – In Just 7 Minutes with Michelle Villalobos

 Discover what business model works for you that can help you grow your business and get you sales while protecting your energy Learn how aligning your business to yourself and what makes you happy is crucial Understand how investing in retreats can make you gain more riches without the constant burnout Resources/Links: Wanting to Know How to Turn Your Business into a Lifestyle-Friendly, Impact-Driven, and Retreat-Driven Passion Project? Learn more about the powerful effects of incorporating retreats into your business: www.retreatstorichesroadmap.com Summary Have you often been feeling stressed and have constant burnout because of your business? Are you trying to find ways how you can make your job less stressful and more fulfilling? Do you want to know how you can align yourself to your business through the promising effects of retreats and seminars? Michelle Villalobos is the host of the Awaken Your Inner Superstar Podcast, creator of the Superstar Business Breakthrough Weekend & Retreats to Riches Course. In this episode, Michelle talks about how you can ditch the burnout and stress in exchange for more money and lesser business hours. She also shares the powerful impact of investing in retreats, seminars, and events on your business and how it can help you start your self-alignment journey as well. Check out these episode highlights: 01:25 - Michelle’s ideal client: “I work with thought leaders and industry leaders. So, into specific industries, and each industry is people who are looking to evolve and lead the evolution of their industry. So, we're working with people who want to lead others, essentially.” 01:53 - Problem Michelle helps solve: “Really it comes down to an alignment. Essentially, the problem is that these people, these thought leaders, often get themselves into business models where they're exchanging time for money. And they're selling their expertise.” 02:54 - Typical symptoms that clients do before reaching out to Michelle: “Well when there's a lack of alignment, there's a lack of joy. And that's one of the biggest, sort of, common threads, it's like people thinking- and I went through this. This is how I came up with this.” 04:02 - Common mistakes that people make before they find Michelle’s solution: “I would say the mistakes they're making are the same mistakes I made, which is the following- really optimizing for money, optimizing for significance versus optimizing for alignment. And what that means is it's like working from the outside in.” 06:10 - Michelle’s Valuable Free Action (VFA): “Well, one of my favorite things, it's not exactly what we've been talking about, but it's "sell it, first figure it out later". I find that so many people get caught up with trying to have an idea. And then they go create the thing and they put it all together.” 06:52 - Michelle’s Valuable Free Resource (VFR): Check out Michelle’s Roadmap: www.retreatstorichesroadmap.com 07:25 - Q: How did you figure all this out? A: And essentially, I had a massive breakdown in my business, my life, my health about seven, eight years ago. And it was like the dark night of the soul, everything fell apart Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “Energy precedes outcome.” -Michelle VillalobosClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland 00:10