Fuel Your Progress and Celebrate Your Wins with Melanie Barr
About this episode:
Melanie Barr, Founder + CEO of She Built it™ leads this week’s episode. Melanie launched She Built It™ in 2015 after selling millions in products and services for Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurs - Marriott Hotels, AT&T, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Millennium Corporate Solutions to name a few. Her experience leading Boards and assisting organizations with female-focused missions inspired her to establish the She Built it™ community, a collective that comes together to empower you to "experience the life and business that you crave." She Built It™ fosters meaningful member connections and shares knowledge and resources that inspire you to make your next leap - big or small.
Topics Discussed:
Why celebrating your wins, big and small, can help you achieve more
How celebrating your accomplishments can become fuel for what’s next
Melanie’s big win and how she’s celebrating this success
About Melanie:
Melanie Barr is the Founder + CEO of She Built it™. She’s an Entrepreneur, Podcaster, Community Creator, Twin Mama, Wife, & Optimist.
The She Built It™ Collective comes together to empower you to "experience the life and business that you crave." We make meaningful member connections and share knowledge and resources that inspire you to make your next leap - big or small. Melanie launched She Built It™ in 2015 after selling millions in products and services for Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurs - Marriott Hotels, AT&T, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Millennium Corporate Solutions to name a few. She led Boards and assisted organizations with female-focused missions such as Step Up and Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) an organization at the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Melanie is grateful for her twins, family, friends, tea, wine, binging on a good show after a long day to wind down her creative mind, and the She Built It™ Collective and Family. She earned a BA in Marketing from Loyola Marymount. Melanie and her husband - Jonathan Levey and their seven-year-old twins, Parker and Elliott, live in Los Angeles, California.
Read a raw, unedited transcript of this episode:
Hi She Built It™ Family! Thank you for joining me on my birthday. It means so much that you are here. Since today is about celebration - think about your last win big and small? It could be a small win - like you might not have felt like going to the gym but you went anyway or when you landed your last client or hit a revenue goal. When those things happened - how did you feel and what did you do next?
When you went to the gym did you allow yourself to feel how good it felt after you decided to go? Did you gift yourself a healthy meal to fuel your body and think about how amazing your workout was and that the decision to workout was to gift your body to increase your metabolism, and relieve any life or work stress.
When you landed your last client or hit a large customer target what did you do next? Did you gift yourself your favorite cup of coffee and dedicate it to your recent win? Did you share a meal with friends or family and celebrate your new client or increased revenue? Did you gift yourself that little something you’ve wanted but have been waiting for the right time to purchase.
So often we accomplish something and then we move on to the next thing we want to achieve or reach? Whether its work, business, or a personal life goal.
My background is in business development. I love to sell products and services and I know not everyone does. I’ve worked for Marriott Hotels, AT&T, the Los Angeles Dodgers to name a very few. I dug deep to find the determination to learn early in my career that a no will mean yes in the future. That if I kept reaching out to brand partnerships, clients, and customers - that it would mean a yes in the future. I learned to perfect getting to yes. Once you do that - when you decide that receiving a no is not going to slow you down, get in your way, or stop you - that you don’t care anymore because you believe in abundance and that there is so much more out there for you. The “yeses” will start to flow and the celebrations happen. When we celebrate our wins - when we stop and realize, feel, and acknowledge them - they become our fuel. Fuel for your next big project, your next client, and to celebrate the joy with your friends, family, and for yourself.
I hope wherever you are today whatever you are doing that after listening you stop, think about, and allow yourself to feel and celebrate your most recent win. That you realize it, feel it, celebrate it, and allow it to fuel you to your “whats next.” Whatever that is.
I’m celebrating today with a podcast cover art refresh so I can do my favorite thing - bring you life and business knowledge, motivation, inspiration, the life and business knowledge that I have learned along the way, and incredible stories of women who have “built it” and created the life and business that they crave.
Thank you for joining me today…until next time……