SDH 401: Start, Build, and Scale Your Online Business to 6 Figures and Beyond with Melissa Lin

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Be ready to ditch your 9-5 and start earning from your own business with our guest, Melissa Lin.

Melissa is an online business coach that helps women start, build, and scale their online business to 6 figures and beyond through her full product suite of services. Melissa's Fierce Business Academy helps women start and scale their online coaching or service-based business to $5k months and her 6 Figure Fierce Business Mastermind that helps women scale to consistent $10k months with ease.

Melissa was previously a successful Chemical Engineer before running her own multiple 6 figure business. When she was a kid it was instilled in her mind that to be successful, it is either to become a doctor or be married and have a husband. When her parents moved to the US from Hong Kong, they knew very little English, only "Hi" and "Thank you". Other than that, the words "Doctor" and "Husband." Growing up she was always way ahead in school and attended community college for her math classes. She's the high school girl that instead of partying and doing other cool stuff, went to engineering camp. She's great with Science and Math and that's what her parents pushed her to go for, so she got her degree in Chemical Engineering.

When she landed her first job in the real world, she made great money but only had one week’s vacation for the whole year. She was working so hard and she thought that since everyone around her was saying ‘this is how it's supposed to be', ‘you're supposed to hustle your first few years’, ‘once you're in your 30s, it's going to get easier’. ‘You move into management; you'll be making more money’. But then ding, ding, ding nothing happened she is still working hard and in odd hours. It became a realization that it was not going to change any time soon.

Her dreams of traveling around the world, living abroad for months at a time, giving back to the world, and the community, fun charities, start her charity at some point, is starting to just become a big bubble of dreams. She knew she had to do something for her to achieve those dreams.

In 2014 she started using Instagram to post her bodybuilding and bikini competitions, she had people reach out to her regarding fitness advice and how she could also help them. From there she was able to help many people and transitioned to using Instagram for business. She started her first online business as an online coach. She was running this on the side with her full-time job. It came to a point that she could no longer handle her 1:1 clients while doing a full-time job because her 9-5 was holding her back from creating a bigger impact. It was a scary decision but she decided to quit her job on a two-week notice and has been thriving ever since.

In this episode, you will...

Learn to take small steps to change your current situation
Discover your passion and pursue it
Get to know the importance of having a coach
Identify your niche when pursuing your business
Focus on the right thing that will drive your business
Be ready to feel uncomfortable to be able to reach your goal

Insights:

"It was a scary decision and knew I needed to take that risk, get uncomfortable if I ever wanted to live the life I had been dreaming about."
"If you are sitting through or going through some type of comparison, instead of comparing yourself to others, use them as inspiration and evidence."
"So one of the biggest things that helped with that was time blocking and just creating a schedule and creating a routine in my life. So even though I wasn't in a nine to five, I needed some type of routine because if not, I would sit there and binge-watches The Bachelor or binge-watch whatever was there. After all, oh, I work for myself. I can do this. It's not me being effective and growing the business. "