016: Your Time to Lead: Vision, Impact, and Sustainable Growth

In this week's episode of Moneymaker Monday, Sarah Beth encourages participants in the Blueprint to Breakthrough program to reflect on their progress as they enter week 15. She emphasizes the importance of owning their newfound roles as leaders and executing long-term visions with precision. Sarah provides guidance for three stages of leadership development: vision-casting, refining leadership skills, and monetizing efforts. She underscores that true growth comes from embracing failures and learning from them. The episode concludes with a call to action for participants to submit questions for an upcoming AMA session aimed at fostering further growth and refinement.

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Chapters

• 3:30 Stage One: Casting the Vision
• 4:45 Stage Two: Refining Your Leadership
• 8:30 Stage Three: Monetizing What You’ve Built
• 9:55 AMA Invitation & Community Support
• 10:54 Final Charge: Think Big, Move Bold

Transcript

   📍 Hey friends, it's Sarah Beth. Welcome to another Moneymaker Monday, if you are part of Blueprint to Breakthrough, this is week 15 of Blueprint to Breakthrough and I just want to pause for like two to three seconds and acknowledge where you are right now to see how far you've come. You have gone through week after week listening to every episode, attending every live session building systems, you've said yes.

When it's uncomfortable, you've laid groundwork, and now it's time for you to just assume the role you're here. You did all the work to get right here. This episode is about you leading like a CEO. It's about execution, refinement, sustainable success. If you've ever wondered what it really looks like to operate with a long-term vision, this is actually it.

You're living out the long-term vision. When you signed up, bought your ticket, got yourself to here, you had a vision, you had something in front of you that you were like, gosh, I'm gonna stink and do it.

You're not just running a business anymore; you are actually building a legacy. Something you didn't know you were gonna do, but you really did it. We are finalizing section four, which is thriving in business and leadership, and our theme right now is embracing your role as a leader and creating long-term impact.

It is never about being perfect, but it is about being consistent and it's not about having a crystal-clear roadmap either, but it is about knowing where you are going and who you want to be when you get there. And so, as we are entering into this quarter two of this year, I want you to feel grounded with this truth.

Everything you've learned, everything you've survived, and everything you've implemented so far. It was preparing you for this very moment. You are here now, and your breakthrough is already unfolding. I've watched people in this group grow in ways I didn't even know where possible, and I know some of you didn't know it.

Either you've taken ideas, and you've made them real. You've overcome doubt, and now it's time to put it all into action, all into place, and create income and impact from what you've built.

Long-term vision is what separates a side hustle from a sustainable business. This episode is about helping you hold both the vision and the execution and to stop waiting for permission to lead like the powerhouse that you actually are. We're breaking this down into three stages. Today. You may fall into one or float between two.

Either way, this message is still for you. My stage one casting the vision. If you're still figuring things out, I want you to hear me. This is not time to shrink. This is time to get specific. I want you to go grab the nearest piece of paper or open your cell phone app and grab the notes app. Send an email to yourself.

Whatever you can do to get this note out, want you to write down a five-year vision. Not vague goals, like more clients, more followers.  I mean specific outcomes.  What kind of revenue are you looking to bring in?

What does your daily schedule look like when you incorporate all the things that you need to do to get this off the ground? What does your daily schedule look like in general? Who's on your team? What are you no longer doing? A study that was recently published in the Journal of Applied Psychology. It says that people who write down their goals are 33% more likely to achieve them.

So, I think you should write them. I think you should speak them out loud. I think you should make them real. This is the place where you stop trying to build something and actually start owning your role as a future CEO. You don't have to see the whole staircase today. I just want you to see the next step, and I don't want you waiting until you're ready.

I want you to start moving and operating like it's already yours. For my stage two, my middle ground. You're refining your leadership, and most of you in this group are here. You've already launched the offer, right? You've built the platform, you started the momentum, but now you're being called to refine and rise.

This stage is about clarity and focus, and so in your note in your phone, I want you to answer some questions. Where am I still acting like a freelancer instead of a CEO? What leadership skills do I need to grow next? Am I leading from confidence or from insecurity? According to the global Leadership Forecast, only 14% of CEOs believe they have the leadership talent that they need to grow.

That means the rest of the business world is faking it, but I don't think you have to. So that's where you start being intentional with your time and talents. Those of you that are in this middle ground, it's time for you to start thinking of these things. And some of them, they might actually scare you a teeny tiny bit, but I think you're ready.

Start mentoring someone... You gotta start somewhere. You gotta start with one person. Set up leadership systems in your calendar. Implement boundaries with your team. Prioritize tasks that generate income instead of just keeping you busy. Every single thing you do, you should find a way for it to make you money.

Everything, it's all possible. We just have to look at it the right way. Refinement, you see, it's not failure, its leadership in motion. You don't grow when things are easy. You grow when you start choosing wisely over wildly.  A real CEO leads through delegation, vision and discernment, not constant output. I was reading an article the other day, and it talks about when rocket ships are being built currently. Elon Musk, whether you like him or not, he's building rocket ships and when they build a rocket ship, something incredible is done During the planning.

They know that they're going to take flight with that rocket at a certain version and so let's just use really simple numbers for a moment. Let's use version 1.02, 0.0, and 3.0. Now, you could also look at this similarly to how you look at a cell phone when we have different additions or models that come out.

The iPhone 10, the iPhone 12, the iPhone 16, whatever it might be. Same fundamental, same thoughts, but let's go back to the rocket ships.

They know when they build this particular rocket ship that they're going to take flight at a certain version. Let's say they take flight at version 3.0 when they are planning the construction of this rocket. They are planning to fail so many times, and they actually need to fail because they can't take flight until version 3.0.

So, version 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, and so on and so forth, all the way until they get to 3.0. All of those different versions mean that there have to be failures along the way. Things that didn't work out. They expect failures, and in fact, one of the statements that was said in this article is that their belief is that if you aren't constantly failing, you aren't inventing enough, you aren't advancing enough.

If you aren't finding failure, something is wrong. You see, they seek out the failure because they know they've gotta get to the launch. And I think if we realize that we are on a pursuit of searching for failures so we can actually get to the launch, it would change our perspective. Instead of being fearful of all of those failures, we would look forward to them in anticipation that on the other side of that fear is something excellent.

For my stage three, my high grounds, this is where it gets exciting and sometimes, I think a little overwhelming. You've got the foundation now. You need to make money from what you've built, and then your impact is turning into income. So, for those of you in my stage three you note is going to take your most popular free content and turn it into a paid digital product.

It. You're gonna be launching your signature service to your warmest leads. You're gonna be hosting a workshop or a VIP Day and test your premium offer, and you are gonna write down exactly what that is. What is it? Write it down. Make it so you're gonna create affiliate income from tools you already use and love.

You're gonna offer a paid mentorship to someone in your specific niche, your environment that you are seeing all the time. People are already watching you. You don't need more followers to make money. You need more clarity on your offer and confidence in your ask. There is no such thing as too small to monetize.

Money comes when the message is clear, and the delivery is aligned. You didn't build this business to babysit it. You built it to scale it. Now, sometimes I run a podcast episode and not one that's sponsored by like Spotify or Apple or iHeartRadio, but I'm just getting ads from Buzzsprout and sometimes I only make 6 cents.

There's no too small. Take the 6 cents, take it.

This week we're going to have a live session, and I'm gonna go through questions that you send in and in the show notes of this episode, there will be a link, and I'm also gonna post that in our Instagram chat. I want you to send in questions. It's going to be an a MA and ask me anything. This is for those that can attend the live event and those that can't, we're literally just gonna workshop for 90 minutes.

We're gonna mastermind any questions you have and I wanna do it in a MA format, so I make sure I get to all the different questions that come up. So, you'll have an opportunity to submit questions you want answered. Whether it's just something you need, workshopped, a question you have about something, how to do something, you need to be pointed in the right direction.

What I love most about this upcoming a MA is that it will give you the space to reflect, refine, and rise. So, whether you're launching, scaling, or reinventing, I'm gonna meet you where you are and I'm leveling you up. We're getting you where you need to be. This is your moment. You have the tools, you've got the team, you've gained the clarity.

Now it's about showing up with boldness and making strategic moves. Let this be the week that you hire the assistant. Pitch the offer, record the video, show your face, write the email. And most importantly, make the money. When the vision is clear, the strategy reveals itself. I believe in you, and I believe in what you're building.

We're not just dreaming this week, we're executing. Think big, lead with clarity this week, move with intention. And your final takeaway for this week's moneymaker Monday is that long-term vision guides, short-term actions. And 📍 legacy is built one bold decision at a time.