How To Be a Good Leader and Manager in Your Own Business with Tomasha Suber | Episode 88
How To Be a Good Leader and Manager in Your Own Business with Tomasha Suber
In today’s episode of The Pretty Awkward Entrepreneur Podcast, I’m thrilled to have special guest Tomasha Suber with me!
Tomasha is a leadership and operations coach who focuses on helping women develop what she calls their “CEO Intelligence.”
We are talking about developing a super clear vision on how to be a good leader and manager.
If you want to get clear on your values and goals so you can lead your business feeling empowered, you’re definitely going to want to listen to this episode!
But before we dive in, let me introduce myself. My name is Megan Yelaney, and I have built two six-figure businesses and one multi-six-figure business by fully embracing my authentic self and not trying to hide the quirks that make me, ME. So if you’re a female entrepreneur looking to learn, grow your business strategies and mindset, and scale your biz to multiple six figures while having fun doing it…you’re in the right place, girl! Because I made this podcast exactly for YOU!
And today, Tomasha and I will discuss how to be a good leader and manager so your clients can have brilliant transformations! For all the details, be sure to tune in to episode 88 on your fave streaming platform.
How Tomasha found her dream job.
Tomasha has always been interested in how people lead, although she didn’t realize it at first. She was intrigued by how people developed visions for making things better and how they got people to follow them. She tried many different jobs, but she eventually discovered that what she really loved was taking a process, picking it apart, and making it better.
When she lost a job, she realized she wanted to take her skills into the entrepreneurial world. She wanted to teach people with small businesses how to lead. She developed her business of helping women lead with intention.
One of the biggest things Tomasha focuses on with her clients is prioritizing themselves. So many business owners just want to create and create, but they neglect to focus on themselves and their intentions.
When you are so busy focusing on other people and trying to fix other people’s problems, your business isn’t going to run as well as you want.
You’re neglecting the top moneymaker in your business, which is YOU!
Tomasha reminds us how important it is to evaluate ourselves before we bring on other people in our businesses. You don’t hire people to fix problems; you hire to elevate. And the hardest thing about a team is not paying them. It’s people management. In order to manage well, you have to look at yourself and your own priorities first.
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How to help your clients unlock their intelligence.
Tomasha stresses the difference between information consumption and comprehension. She wants her clients to leave her feeling fully capable of what they need to do. She doesn’t want her clients always to need her. Her clients should be able to replicate her process with confidence, boldness, and consistency.
Something we both see in the coaching space is codependency.
We of course want our clients to feel supported and accountable. But we don’t want to do things for them.
It’s our job to empower our clients to do it themselves.
Your clients leaving you is not a bad thing. Don’t keep adding on more programs just for the sake of doing it. Everything you do should have a clear, intentional purpose. Your clients’ time with you should end well and not dwell longer than it needs to.
And remember, when someone leaves you, you have new space to offer to someone else.
How to self-assess to become a better leader.
As an entrepreneur, you need to be very clear about how you do what you do. You need to know what your people need and want really well.
Don’t waste time on something that’s not really needed!
You have to know what your own capacity to serve is. It’s going to be different from someone else’s, and that’s okay!
Tomasha says on how to be a good leader and manager, you need to start with a thorough self-assessment. So many of us are focused on the things we’re building, but we’re not focusing on the person we’re building– us!
Ask yourself– what is it about yourself that you want to see change? What is it that YOU want? Be super clear about that.
The next step is to paint a clear picture of what that looks like. If you want to build a six-figure business, okay. But what does that actually look like? What would having that six-figure business allow you to do? You need to define that first before you go after a dollar amount.
Why you need to be willing to take a loss.
Tomasha shares that it’s important to be open to taking a loss. Of course, that’s hard to hear and kind of scary.
But the loss you take may be in service of a greater gain.
Tomasha says that she initially took a financial loss in her business to focus on building a solid foundation. She wasn’t focused on the money for a while. But eventually, after building a solid foundation, her business skyrocketed.
She was able to hit $8K in a month. And she owes that to being willing to take a loss.
This is something I relate to in my business as well. I’m making some big changes going forward, and I know there will be loss with that. But I also know that I’m doing that for a greater purpose.
With where I want to go in my business and the things I want to accomplish, I have to change pace. And I’m willing to take a loss to get further in the direction I want to go.
How to lead in your own unique way.
Tomasha encourages us to do things how we want to do it in a way that truly works for us.
There are a lot of “rules” in business.
We need to ask ourselves where these come from and if they’re actually worth following.
What works for someone else may not work for you and vice versa. And that’s okay!!
Tomasha says that she only launches for 72 hours (wow!). But she’s not going to follow someone else’s launch plan.
She’s figured out what works for her, and she’s sticking to that.
One thing to keep in mind, though, is not giving more of your time to your free than your paid. We see so many coaches investing so much time in their free stuff. But when it comes to their programs and what they’re actually getting paid for, it’s lackluster. It doesn’t make sense to do it this way!
You need to focus your energy on what you’re getting paid for. Invest your time where your money is.
How To Be a Good Leader and Manager in Your Own Business with Tomasha Suber: The Bottomline
The most important about how to be a good leader and manager is following your own intuition and intelligence.
If you are leading from a genuine place, your clients will feel that and want to follow you. Make your decisions from a clear, intentional standpoint.
I hope this episode inspires you to put intention behind everything you do so you can help people make amazing transformations. And as always, stay safe, stay healthy, and stay #PrettyAwkward!
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I am on a MISSION to help online coaches sign high-ticket clients they LOVE, month after month without feeling icky, salesy, lost, or desperate BY standing out and being 110% themselves.
I have helped HUNDREDS of women get their unique coaching voice and find their soulmate (clients that is!)
Because I’ve been there too. I went from wanting to be a health and fitness coach...trying to take awkward booty pooping selfies, to embracing my #prettyawkward style and scaling my coaching business past six figures.
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