Latest / Imagine If with Doone Roisin | Health, Wealth & Wisdom for Women (formerly Female Startup Club Podcast) / 6 quick questions with Jennifer Neville, Founder of Live Zen With Jen (Part 2)
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- 0:00Welcome back. Here are the six quick questions. Question number one is what's your why? Why do you wake up every day and build this business and focus on these channels and everything that you're doing?
- 0:25I think it's the ability to be able to help other people kind of find their direction. And it's stemming from, I guess, my selfish why, too, is that I get to explore myself creatively. And I get to have these life experiences, good and bad. And then I kind of get to share these things and get that feedback of, you know,
- 0:51oh, this really helped me or this perspective shift helped me see something differently and find this success. And I just feel like the ability that like something that I might have experienced and have trouble with, I can help somebody else through is really fulfilling. Question number two is what's been your favorite marketing moment so far in business?
- 1:16I got to be on the cover of a magazine for like a spirituality and psychic stuff. So that was a pretty, a pretty fun experience. That was a fun marketing moment where I got to feel like a little bit like, I'm like, I feel like a celebrity. Yeah.
- 1:34I love that for you. Wow. Cover of a magazine. Holy shit. That's cool. Yeah. You've got to frame it. I know. Question number three is what's your go-to business resource? What is a book or a podcast or a newsletter that you're consuming at the moment to kind of learn and level up?
- 1:53My go-to business resource, I have so many. I've been using TikTok as like a Google search engine. So I'll kind of just Google. I'll use it as like Google and be like, how do I invest? Or what stock should I be investing in? Or what should I do in this sphere? But I was stalking your TikTok today. And somebody who I'm a big fan of, Sophia Amoroso,
- 2:21Even just kind of following these CEOs or like the Sarah Blake Lees. And that's kind of like my hidden little secret of like these women who started these like massive e-com businesses. It's like my guilty pleasure to go watch them and watch like consume all of their interviews and content.
- 2:46Yeah. Love. I hear you. I'm there with you. Question number four is how do you win the day? What are your AM or PM rituals and habits that keep you feeling happy and successful and motivated? Honestly, the affirmations, the affirmations help me win the day. Just taking that hour or meditating, just kind of giving myself that hour,
- 3:10or time period of mental relaxation and peace and like just feeding myself these yummy, healthy thoughts. That's my win the day. Yummy, healthy thoughts. I love that. I really love that. Question number five is what's been your worst money mistake in business and how much did it cost you? Um,
- 3:33I feel like I'm fortunate that I haven't had a lot, but I've definitely invested in courses that I feel I didn't really get anything out of or any use out of. But I feel like I try to put a positive spin on everything because then I'm like, okay, well, that investment showed me what I shouldn't be doing.
- 3:56Yep. I hear you. I've been there. And I think my most expensive course that I've bought didn't like it was like $1,200. But I became way more intentional about those things afterwards.
- 4:13Yeah, a clear learning. Yeah. And last question, question number six, what is just a crazy story, good or bad from your journey in this space? And I'm thinking like, I'm wondering if you have kind of a crazy story where you've done like a tarot reading or predicted something for someone that's come true or something like that.
- 4:37So my crazy story that I was going to say, I've definitely had those. I've had some crazy readings where it's like...
- 4:46it could be like a TV show, but I think in the beginning when I started my channel, I would offer readings for, and this is like can funnel into like a good piece of business advice. I would offer my readings at like $30 for 30 minutes. So a dollar a minute, because I was still not confident enough that like, Oh, I'm helping people. And I would get some like very crazy, crazy people who would call me and say,
- 5:15it took a lot of energy because these people were, um, you know, finding me online and then it's like $30. And then I'd be on the phone with them for 30 minutes and they'd be asking me like a little bit crazy questions. And I was like, I don't want to align with this. But the beauty of that was that I learned to raise my prices. And when you raise your prices, it weeds out a lot of, you know, the chaos, um,
- 5:43Yes. Yes. I feel like that's something we hear over and over again is like, whatever you're charging, like double, triple it, raise your prices. Yeah. Don't be afraid to raise your prices. Do you have one crazy story, one crazy like reading that came true that you can share?
- 6:02I mean, I have so many readings that come true, but one of the craziest, one of the craziest experiences that I've had reading was like, there was some guy who was having an affair. And I think the mistress came to me and then the mistress found out there was another mistress. So then she recommended me to the other mistress. So then the other mistress comes to me and then there was like a little girlfriend, another one. So they all were coming to me for the readings. Yeah.
- 6:31But one stayed, the one that was like the main mistress, I guess. She stayed like, oh my God, as a client of mine.
- 6:40And I love her. Such good vibes from her. But I kept predicting. I was like, he's going to get, there's going to be a lawsuit against him. There's going to be a lawsuit against him. And then I think like a year later, she was like, oh my gosh, the lawsuit came out. But even this week, I had one of my regular clients and I was doing her astrology. And I was like, you're going to have a plumbing problem.
- 7:04This week, it was so specific and random. And then she texted, I was like, you're gonna have to spend money on something. But don't worry about it. You have money coming back to you. Then she messaged me. She's like, it wasn't plumbing. It was a fender bender, I got an fender bender. And then she emailed me three days later. She's like, just kidding. It was plumbing. There's a leak in my apartment.
- 7:28Oh my God, that is so weird. Yeah. Sometimes I'm like, damn, I'm even impressed. Wow. Holy shit. That's really cool. Really, really cool. Oh my gosh. Well, this was amazing. Jen, thank you so much for coming on the show and sharing your insights and your knowledge and talking about all this stuff that just sounds so good for the soul. I need to spend more time doing affirmations and manifestation.
- 7:54And I'm really grateful for having you here. Yes, thank you so much for having me. It was so much fun.
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- 9:11Hey, it's Dune here. Thanks for listening to this amazing episode of the Female Startup Club podcast. If you're a fan of the show and want even more of the good stuff, I'd recommend checking out femalestartupclub.com where you can subscribe to our free newsletter. We send it out weekly covering female founder business news, insights and learnings in D2C, and interesting business resources.
- 9:35And if you're a founder building an e-commerce brand, you can join our private network of entrepreneurs called Hype Club at femalestartupclub.com forward slash Hype Club. We have guests from the show joining us for intimate Ask Me Anythings, expert workshops, and a group of totally amazing, like-minded women building the future of D2C brands.
- 9:58As always, please do subscribe, rate and review the show and post your favorite episodes to Instagram stories. I am beyond grateful when you do that.