Ann Carden is a strategic business consultant, coach, author, and serial entrepreneur who launched and sold five successful businesses. Today she uses her marketing, sales, and business strategy expertise to help others reach higher levels of success. In this episode, you will hear about Ann’s natural ability to recognize opportunities that took her from stay-at-home mom to serial entrepreneur well before the days of social media and online marketing and how she’s gone on to create her own method for successful business building that she uses to coach others who want to scale their businesses.Ann tells us how she launched her first very successful business making and selling dolls after looking for a way to make a little extra money for her family,  the hard work and long hours it took to build that business to global success, selling that first business, and how she got the idea for her next business after overcoming a personal challenge.Ann reveals her natural gift for seeing opportunities, using that gift to build multiple businesses, what she says your fastest path to success in business is, and the life-changing experience she had working with a business coach that sparked her passion to become a coach herself. Ann describes how she knew it was time to exit a business, how she aligned her business to do what she most enjoys, why you shouldn’t feel guilty about making money in your business, and her A to Z model for working with her coaching clients helping them level up and scale their businesses.You’ll be inspired by Ann’s ability to identify opportunities, her commitment to pursuing them, her openness about the hard work and mistakes along the way, and her heart for helping others achieve success.Skip to Topic:3:09 - Figuring out what the market wants5:54 - Creating a global business out of a spare bedroom8:52 - Selling a successful business9:47 - Launching a new business solving a personal struggle16:46 - Finding your fastest path to success18:58 - Staving off lower-priced competitors21:39 - Becoming a coach for business owners23:32 - Recognizing when it’s time to exit a business25:28 - Doing what brings you  joy in your business31:13 - Why entrepreneurs should not feel guilty about making money Find Ann  at:Website: https://annlcarden.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anncarden-business-consultant-coach/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/66393905766931YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/anncardenVisit Stephanie at: https://stephaniehayes.biz/Follow me on Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | TwitterSupport the show