Sarah Schulweis is one of those people who can best be described as magnetic. She’s smart, confident, honest, and vulnerable. If I lived in Oakland, I’d make her hang out with me all the time just so I could learn from her.

She’s the founder of Anchor & Orbit, a business consultancy that helps growing businesses set up processes, systems, and a realistic plan to reach their most meaningful goals. She acts as a hired operational co-founder, more or less. She also runs a four-month program + guide at a lower cost than 1:1 consulting. The applications for that are open now till Monday – check it out!

Having trained as a dancer, gone to school for entrepreneurship, worked in PR and marketing, and experienced her fair share of compromising situations thanks to injuries, Sarah’s story has a lot of twists and turns. Today, she’s been successfully consulting with small businesses in rad industries for five years. We talk a lot about making ends meet in hard times, having faith in yourself, getting real about your finances, and balancing the fun and not-so-fun parts of running a business. Listen above or on iTunes or Spotify.

Show notes

In this episode, we talk about:

• The value of resetting and giving yourself the headspace needed to tackle big goals
• How Anchor & Orbit came to be and the time it takes to get into a flow
• How roadblocks and hardships aid in getting to where you’re going
• Being grateful for those experiences
• Organic lead generation and the power of word of mouth referrals
• The importance of strong and honest messaging
• The power of boundary setting: knowing what you want from people and what you can give them
• How to look at your history to determine what you want
• How collaboration will propel your business forward
• Creating a guaranteed baseline income
• Hiring the right people to overcome roadblocks
• Having faith in yourself when taking risks
• Checking our privilege and giving back
• Changing your perspective about money: sit with abundance rather than lack
• The importance of being realistic about your finances

Books, podcasts, and resources she mentioned:

• Anchor & Orbit (on Instagram)
• The four-month course/program (deadline is Jan. 21!)
• Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide for Getting Lost
• Courtney Martin, The New Better Off
• Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass
• The Elapsed Anarchist Approach to Managing Ourselves (Zingerman’s Guide to Good Learning)
• Seth Godin’s books
• Podcast: The Lonely Hour by Julia Bainbridge
• Podcast: New York Times The Daily
• Podcast: Open Account
• Album: Nils Frahm, Screws

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