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Burning Brightly
Are you a Latter-Day Saint or other Christian woman who feels a quiet call to build an online business but isn’t sure where to start, or how it fits into your family and faith? Welcome to Burning Brightly. I'm Bonnie Wiscombe, a certified life coach, online business mentor, author, and mom of 10. Join me as I encourage faithful women (like you) to step beyond comfort and build the business God is inviting you to create. A business that expands your talents, serves others, and allows you to make…
Episodes
- Burning Brightly
66. How to Be the Boss in Your Business
Many Christian women in the entrepreneur space never set out to be a boss or a mogul initially. Most of us just saw a need and wanted to help people. But the…
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65. Is This The Season of Life for Business?
If you're a mother, then you know all about the different seasons of life and how each requires different time and energy. There are times of life when we can…
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64. How to Start a Podcast
I've been podcasting for almost 6 years now and it's one of my favorite means of communicating with my audience and disseminating expertise, encouragement and…
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63. Stop Second Guessing Your Niche
Are you a coach or content creator with niche drama? Let's be honest, you probably have niche drama. We all do at some point! You're definitely not alone but…
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62. Create The Perfect Work At Home Schedule
If you have kids at home and are building a business, this episode is for you! It's taken me years and years to develop and implement a work-at-home schedule…
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61. When Failure Is The Only Option
What do you feel when you hear the word "failure?" Does it make you cringe? Worry? Stress or shiver? Most people have only negative connotations to the word…
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60. How to Know if You're Successful (in Life and Business)
Today, we're talking about the concept of success and exploring how we can define and recognize our own success in business and life. I'm going to challenge…
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59. Good vs Bad Networking for an Online Business
In this episode we're exploring the benefits of networking and how to do it in a way that feels good and genuine as an online business owner. We'll talk about…
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58. How Honoring the Sabbath Changes Everything
In this episode, I'm discussing the significance of honoring the Sabbath and how it has completely revolutionized my business and personal life. Through…
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57. Become Best Friends With Your Body
In this episode, we're exploring the struggles many women face in loving and appreciating their bodies as they are. I strongly believes this challenge is…
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56. Do You Like Your Reasons?
In this episode, I dive deep into the importance of understanding the reasons behind our actions and their impact on our lives. I'll explain the significance…
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55. 5 Ways Your Brain is Sabotaging Your Goals
I recently gave this presentation to a local coworking space and I wanted to share it all with you! In it, I explores how our brains unintentionally sabotage…
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54. 7 Ways to Make Money as Content Creator
In this episode, we'll learn seven proven strategies for making money online as a content creator! We categorize content creators into influencers, educators…
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53. How to Reach Any Goal by Just Changing Your Thoughts
Join me for Podcast Jumpstart where I teach you the framework to launch your podcast in just 2 weeks! In this episode, we dive deep into the science of goal…
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52. Riding the Business Rollercoaster
Today, we're diving into the thrilling highs and lows of the business roller coaster. I'll guide you through the inevitable ups and downs of entrepreneurship…
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51. Dealing with Envy
Welcome to episode 51 of Burning Brightly, where we're tackling the (often unspoken) emotion of envy. I’m Bonnie Wiscombe, your host, life coach, and fellow…
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50. How to Get Good at Feeling Bad with Guest Denita Bremer
You're in for a treat with this latest episode of Burning Brightly. We had the amazing Denita Bremer on to discuss something so important yet often avoided…
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49. Combatting Imposter Syndrome
Hey there, fellow Christian moms and entrepreneurs! I'm Bonnie Wiscombe, your host and guide on this journey of building a business and sharing your light with…
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48. How Life Coaching Changed My Life (Plus One Year of Burning Brightly!)
Welcome to a very special episode of Burning Brightly! This month marks our one-year anniversary of the show, and I’m thrilled to share not only the journey of…
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47. Learning to Let Go as a High Achiever with Guest Kolette Hall
Today's guest has an incredible story and shares hope, inspiration and some amazing coaching tools. Kolette Hall is a life coach and widowed single mom who…
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46. How to Live Life to the Fullest
Hey there, entrepreneurs! Welcome back to Burning Brightly, the podcast where we ignite our entrepreneurial spirits and embrace the adventure of building…
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45. Why Every Business Needs a Funnel with Guest Matt Peet
Funnel building is a buzzword in the entrepreneurial space, in large part thanks to the work of Russell Brunson and ClickFunnels. Matt Peet is a funnel expert…
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44. Prioritizing Family
We working moms have a lot on our plate: balancing family, home, business, and more can feel exhausting and relentless. But in reality, there are only a few of…
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43. Mind, Body and Soul
God created us with incredible bodies and brains to be used throughout our life, but a big mistake that many of us make is thinking that our brain or body…
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42. Learning Who You Are and How to Love Her
Self-love has become a buzz word, but as Christians we have our doubts about the importance of becoming self-centered and happy with our mistakes. What if you…
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41. How a Busy Mom Builds a Business
Have you ever seen another woman with seemingly impossible accomplishments in her life and wondered, "how does she do it all?" Well, the real answer is, she…
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40. Find the Perfect Business Coach
Do you find yourself desperate to find the perfect coach, program, course or book to help you reach success? If so, that means you're likely spending too much…
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39. The 5 Elements of a Successful Business
Business success is not mysterious, based solely on talent or just a crap shoot. It's science and today's podcast episode is essentially a science lesson!…
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38. Discovering Parts Work With Guest Dani Fake
Have you ever felt like you had a devil on one shoulder, constantly making trouble for you while you try to pursue your dreams? Well, that's not far off from…
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37. Ditch Goals, Adopt Habits
New year, new you, right? Maybe not. None of us need more unrealistic goals to beat ourselves up over when we inevitably don't reach them. What we need…
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36. The Gift of Choice
Do you know what the greatest gift you've ever been given is? It's the power to choose. You can choose to be kind or cruel, to love or harm, to build or…
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35. The Pentagon of Personal Priorities
Human beings are amazing! They are multi-faceted, complex and require a lot of care. In fact, most of us regularly neglect at least one of these aspects of…
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34. Boundaries Are Like Broccoli
Sure, we know vegetables are good for us, but sometimes it's a struggle to incorporate them into our lives on a regular basis. Boundaries can be the same way!…
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33. The Danger of Justification
The concept of justification is equal parts fascinating and terrifying. When our brains confront the potential for danger or major upheaval, especially the…
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32. Give Your Brain What it Needs
Our first inclination when we begin to manage our brains is to simply get rid of the thoughts that aren't serving us; we call this "thought swapping"! The…
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31. Believing in Your Business Before It Exists
We know that believing in our business is essential if we want it to succeed and grow. But if you're at the beginning of your entrepreneurial journey, you…
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30. The Emotional Work Necessary to Own a Business
When we think about building a business, we usually think of all the tactical or technical skills we'll need to learn, like building a website, or learning…
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29. The Double Sided Coin of Pride
None of us want to be guilty of pride; puffing ourselves up and acting better than other people is just yucky. But could we be guilty of the other side of…
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28. Some Tough Love
We start our businesses for a variety of reasons: we want fulfillment, extra income and/or to make the world a better place. But what happens when things get…
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27. The Reality of Reaching Your Goal
When we make big, audacious goals for ourselves, we like to imagine how wonderful life will be when we get there. The problem is that this fixation can cause…
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26. Why Business?
So you're ready to put goodness out into the world and let your light shine, but you're wondering, "Do I really have to create a business and charge money for…
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25. Overflowing Cup
We're all familiar with the concept of filling our own cup before we can pour into another's, but what does that even look like? How do we ensure that we don't…
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24. From Safety to Growth
We live in a world where safety (from disagreement, criticism, attack or disease) is considered paramount. But at what cost? I firmly believe that God values…
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23. The Benefits of Living in the Gain
I recently learned the concept of living "in the gain" from the book The Gap and The Gain by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy. Today we're talking about the 3…
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22. Faith Precedes the Miracle
As believers, we understand the critical importance of faith; we don't wait for God to show Himself before we believe. And yet as business owners, we often…
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21. How to Deal with Haters and Trolls
If you're building an online business, it's only a matter of time before you get a nasty comment. It's not fun, but it also doesn't have to be devastating…
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20. The Head, Heart & Hands Model
Do you want to learn the magic of life coaching and better understand how it can help you reach any goal you have for your life? Welcome to the head, heart and…
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19. Overcommitting vs Undercommitting
One of the biggest mistakes I see newbie entrepreneurs making is either undercommitting to their business or putting SO much unnecessary pressure on it that it…
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18. The How is Believing
When we want to accomplish something, we're always so worried about how to do it. We need to know how to lose the weight, how to make money from home or how to…
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17. The Essential Role of Free Time
Entrepreneurs are an exceptional brand of human beings. We're motivated, fearless, ambitious and powerful. But we can also be perfectionists, overachievers and…
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16. What if everything is happening for our good?
Learning to differentiate between facts and stories is one of the most pivotal tools of life coaching and will undoubtedly change your life. Today I'm going to…
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15. Perfect Worth vs Imperfect Works
As Christians, we know that our worth is eternal, perfect and impossible to alter. But when our works don't measure up to this perfect worth, it causes us…
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14. Start a Business from Home 101
After building a variety of businesses from home for the past 10+ years, I'm breaking down the basics for anyone who's curious about it themselves! In this…
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13. How to Have More Fun With Your Business
Building a business can seem SUPER scary, overwhelming and intimidating. But in reality, it's just a big giant experiment! If you want to start a business from…
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12. Why Moms Make Great Entrepreneurs
If you're a mom with a business idea, you might be wondering- "do moms make good entrepreneurs?" The answer is a resounding YES! This episode will walk you…
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11. 10 Ways Satan Tempts Us to Dim our Light
We need a bright light if we're going to shine it so that people see God through us! But that's the exact opposite of what Satan wants from us. There are (at…
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10. How to Gain More Confidence
Confidence seems like one of those magically desirable yet ever-elusive traits that all of us entrepreneurs (or wannabe business owners) need more of. But what…
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9. The Fuel We Need to Burn Brightly
If our goal is to shine God's light for the world to see, then what fuel is needed to burn our proverbial lamps? Just like fire requires a very specific…
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8. Getting Your Business Started
What if you were spending the same amount of time and energy ON your business as you're currently wasting just wondering and worrying about it? The journey of…
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7. Five Ways Discomfort Shows Up in Entrepreneurship
We're all familiar with the discomfort of trying something that's new and unfamiliar. For me, the most common uncomfortable emotions that come up as an…