"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

– Albert Einstein

Is your business working for you? What happens to your business when you have to course correct or change direction?

In this episode, we're talking with one of my favorite guests and humans, Kim Weldin. If you haven't met Kim Weldin yet, she’s a certified integrator and virtual assistant coach on a mission to help women—especially moms—build thriving businesses while maintaining a life full of passion, self-care, and FUN!

After spending 10 years as a special education teacher, Kim made the leap into entrepreneurship to create more flexibility for her family, particularly for her daughter, who requires multiple therapies due to Fragile X Syndrome and Autism.

Starting out as a virtual assistant, Kim’s entrepreneurial journey has been anything but ordinary. She’s refreshingly candid about the highs and lows of business ownership and isn’t afraid to get real about hitting rock bottom. Instead of following the typical industry advice, she forged her own path, embracing authenticity and resilience to build the thriving business she has today.

Now, four years later, Kim is a certified integrator, helping female visionaries turn their big ideas into organized, actionable plans. From streamlining workflows to managing complex projects, Kim transforms chaos into clarity—always with a generous serving of fun, sass, and positivity.

Beyond her integrator services, Kim is passionate about empowering women to step into the virtual assistant world. She’s preparing to launch her first product, 7 Days to Launch: Your VA Business Action Plan, with a mission to help moms start their VA businesses for $47 or less. On top of that, she’s also pouring her heart into The Soulful Balanced Journal, a side passion project that came to her serendipitously, designed to help women cultivate balance and well-being in their lives.

As a neurodivergent mom, business owner, Jesus-loving, and a little woo woo, Kim embraces a holistic approach to life and work. This unique balance inspired her to create The Soulful Balanced Journal, a tool she developed to track her own sleep, mood, and spiritual practices, such as daily affirmations and intentions. The journal also features a space for reframing the mind and choosing daily micro-actions, leading to progress on an action board—her twist on a vision board.

Today we talk about:

• What to consider when you come to a crossroads in your business
• How to navigate tough times and what to consider as you're deciding on your path forward
• How to detach your self-worth from your 'success' in business
• The importance of surrounding yourself with the right people (in life and business)
• What are Kim's favorite books so far in 2024

I know whether you are experiencing the highs or lows of building your business you're going to find something helpful in today's episode!

You can find Kim on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/kimberlyweldin/

Other Links You'll Love:

My website: www.juliecalcote.com

Instagram: juliecalcoteobm

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It's that time of year again in Alaska when you wake up and feel the bite in the air. I don't know if everyone feels like this but for me there's this primal feeling to get things wrapped up because winter is coming and it's time to hibernate.

Now, with the school and client schedule, there's definitely no hibernating but it got me thinking about today's episode.

There's still time in the year to hit your goals!

There's still time to make your goals!

But if you have goals and don't make a plan of action it will be next to impossible to actually achieve them.

Today we talk about:

• Doing an alignment check on any current goals that you have
• The practical things I do to actually achieve the goals I set
• What do to when there is a season of taking a break from your goals

Links You'll Love:

My website: www.juliecalcote.com

Instagram: juliecalcoteobm

OBM Starter Kit from OBM School

"It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor.

The choice is between multiplication of results using strengths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre"

Tim Ferriss

Do you focus on building up your strengths or shoring up your weaknesses?

If we over-focus on what we're not great at we're neglecting spending time practicing and excelling in that thing we're really good at.

Today on the podcast I'm giving examples of re-framing common weaknesses and how they might actually be serving you in your life and in your business.

We also talk about how focusing on what your great at and making it better could be a much easier (and more enjoyable) path to success for you.

Links You'll Love:

My website: www.juliecalcote.com

Instagram: juliecalcoteobm

OBM Starter Kit from OBM School