Conversations with Meghan Lamle

Today we’d like to introduce you to Meghan Lamle

Hi Meghan, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I had $200 left in my account. It had been eight months since I got fired from my job, I was living in my dads basement, and I was trying to make it work as a virtual assistant.

But the thing was – being a service provider was not it for me. I spent every night looking at my bank account, counting how many days until my truck payment was due, worrying about whether or not I’d be able to pay it.

I wanted to pivot to coaching but I kept telling myself I couldn’t coach. Even with a business degree, I still questioned whether people had a reason to listen to me.

I knew I couldn’t keep doing what I was doing. So I took the $200 in my bank account and invested in coaching. I decided at that moment to bet on myself. Something needed to change because I wasn’t making money.

It wasn’t smooth sailing at first but I knew I had to make money to pay for this program. I worked 80 hours a week to make it happen and made $220k that first calendar year.

The biggest shift for me was when I hit that first $5k month and realized that business was something I could do successfully as long as I kept showing up and doing the work.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Business owners have faced a lot of challenges in the last couple of years, and I’m not an exception.

After I made $220k in my first calendar year, I walked away from business in 2021.

Yes, I was widely successful but I was also lonely and burnt out. The external growth didn’t match the internal growth. I wasn’t doing the mindset work, I wasn’t learning how to fail. I wasn’t asking for support when I needed it.

My mental health was trash. The thing is, business owners are 3x more likely to struggle with mental health.

So while I was able to go from $200 to $220k in one year, it took longer to build resiliency, the courage to ask for help, and build a support system for myself.

This is something I coach my clients on – how to build your life around business instead of your business around your life. It’s how you build a sustainable business.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
Something I want my clients to feel in control of is how they can make more money with the time they have and by doing the things they already do.

Yes they need the sales skills, but also thinking about how to build a long term sustainable business.

There’s a big focus on my programs on long-term planning. Where do you want to be in 5 years? It can be a hard question, but it’s important to know where you’re going so you can make a plan to get there.

There’s no set framework for this because it looks different in every business. How you get to your goal, how you utilize marketing (in person or online), all of that changes from person to person.

Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
Besides being an expert in sales, what feels most important to my success is developing my role as a leader both within my company and for my clients.

Leadership is having a vision and knowing where you want to go. It’s taking messy action and being okay when things aren’t perfect. It’s recognizing when things aren’t working and being flexible enough to change the plan.

It’s holding space for your team and your clients so they can reach their goals even when there’s setbacks and challenges. It’s understanding how you can best support your people.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://meghanlamle.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meghan.lamle/?hl=en

Image Credits
Alexa Vossler