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The SmallBizChat Podcast: Stress Management with Vernon L. Williams

February 16, 2023 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Vernon L. Williams, known as The Stress Prevention Strategist, helps you prevent stress and burnout. He is an author, speaker, and coach with a reputation for challenging, encouraging, and equipping clients to avoid stress and burnout. From the beginning of his entrepreneurial career, Vernon has had the reputation of exceeding client expectations and helping people […]

Filed Under: The SmallBizChat Podcast Tagged With: business stress, managing stress, prevent stress and burnout, stress management, stress prevention

The SmallBizChat Podcast: Managing the Stress of Building a Business with Michelle Rosenthal

March 3, 2022 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Michelle Rosenthal is a keynote speaker, author, and mental health advocate as well as the Trauma/PTSD Recovery Specialist and Program Designer at My Trauma Coach. She has written various books on trauma and recovery and is an award-winning PTSD blogger. She is a certified professional coach, board-certified hypnotist, and the Master Practitioner of NLP. As […]

Filed Under: The SmallBizChat Podcast Tagged With: chronic stress, effectively manage stress, managing stress, mindfulness, running a business, stress triggers

The SmallBizChat Podcast: When You Hate Your Business

February 20, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Starting your business can be an exciting, exhilarating adventure. In the beginning, you spend your time networking, building rapport, learning new skills, and creating your products or services that customers will love. But over time, as your business begins to evolve and grow and your responsibilities begin to increase – so does your levels of […]

Filed Under: The SmallBizChat Podcast Tagged With: burn out, business burnout, hate your business, managing stress, owning a business, small business processes, small business strategic plan

11 Bible Verses Small Business Owners Need in 2011

April 4, 2011 By Melinda Emerson 21 Comments

Each year, I pick a bible verse as my theme for the year.  This year I did not choose a verse, but a saying that a coaching client shared with me. “Either I win or I learn, but with God’s help I never lose”. I loved that, and I was so touched by what this […]

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10 Bible Verses Every Small Business Owner Needs

January 18, 2010 By Melinda Emerson 85 Comments

As a Christian and a family focused entrepreneur, I believe that faith is a key ingredient in small business success.  In this current economy, the people of God must remember that if you honor God through your business he will direct your path. Each year, I pick a bible verse as my theme for the […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Mompreneurs, My Recommendations, Pink Slip Entrepreneurs, Solopreneurs, Your Small Business Tagged With: entrepreneur, managing stress, melinda emerson, patience, small business, small business info

How to Handle Entrepreneurial Stress

February 5, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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It is common to find stories of entrepreneurs who talk about their journey through struggles and the perseverance they needed to find the success they enjoy. On the other hand, little is said about the mental health struggles that many entrepreneurs go through caused by entrepreneurial stress. The entrepreneurial battles with perfectionism, meeting targets, and […]

Filed Under: Guest Articles Tagged With: Entrepreneurial Stress, handling stress, managing stress, stress in business, work and life balance

Five Steps to Freedom from Feeling Overwhelmed

November 14, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article As a small business owner, we all feel overwhelmed at times, and it can be a debilitating. It is not only frustrating and miserable, but it keeps us from achieving our goals and delivering value to the world.  My most recent experience was a couple months ago when I was trying to use social […]

Filed Under: Business Inspiration, Solopreneurs, Your Small Business Tagged With: managing stress, overwhelm, small business inspiration

6 Things Oprah Winfrey Taught Us About Business

June 5, 2011 By Melinda Emerson 16 Comments

Oprah Winfrey is my hero. I never thought about being an entrepreneur until she got on my radar when I was in college in the early 90’s. It was around that time that she opened Harpo Studios in Chicago, making her the third woman in the American entertainment industry (after Mary Pickford and Lucille Ball) […]

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Dear SmallBizLady, I am working around the clock in my business. Help?

May 28, 2012 By Melinda Emerson 6 Comments

Dear SmallBizLady, I am a Mompreneur working around the clock in my business and I feel like I am getting nowhere fast.  Can you help me? Many of us running our small businesses are working hard, real hard. We are doing more with less and trying to figure out how to get it done smarter, cheaper […]

Filed Under: Ask Smallbizlady, Mompreneurs, Women in Business Tagged With: managing stress, small business success, smallbizlady, success tips

Managing Stress In Your Business

February 13, 2009 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

If you tell yourself that you are going to have a good day, it is far more likely to happen. That said, all of us all too often have days when we feel like a one-armed wall paper hanger; there are never enough hours in the day.  The key to managing our daily task list […]

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