EP. 80 The Importance of Community, Providing Good Service, Achieving Your Goals, and a Strong Team podcast notes at:​ ​www.sheilabella.com/80community Sheila Bella: Hey guys. What's going on? It's Sheila Bella. And I'm excited to be hanging with you once again on today's episode of Pretty Rich Podcast. Oh, yeah. I like this kind of old school. I like it. All right. I'm bobbing up and down. By the way, have you guys ever been to a silent disco party? It's insane. And I hope that if you haven't gotten your tickets to the Pretty Ambitious Summit that you grab them right now, because you better. We're going to be silent discoing all night on Saturday and you better be there or have FOMO. Really. I want you to be there. I want to party with you. Why do I keep talking about this thing? I keep talking about this thing because I believe in it that much, I believe in the power of live events, my own life has been transformed by live events. My business has been transformed by live events. And I have to tell you guys, and you won't know it until you're there. That it's different, carrying it on a podcast, reading it in a caption versus being there in person. The energy is unmatched. And for those of you who've never been to a live event and Pretty Ambitious Summit is going to be your first one, I can't wait to hear all your testimonials and have you echo the same things. I would have to say that I would be nothing without having attended live events. That's where I met friends in the industry. That's where I learned things about the industry. That's when the industry became real to me and I EPISODE 80: The Importance of Community, Providing Good Service, Achieving Your Goals, and a Strong Team www.sheilabella.com/80community 1 became real to it. Because I showed up. And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, maybe this is your first episode of Pretty Rich Podcasts. I'm talking about the Pretty Ambitious Summit. This is the very first live event for beauty entrepreneurs, where you will learn marketing, sales, create connections, build confidence, and get inspired. Oh yeah. And silent disco, of course, that's really important. Guys, we're like two months away. So you better grab your tickets. Grab your tickets, right, right now at prettyambitioussummit.com. Go there, check out all the amazing speakers and yeah, I really, really, really want to meet you. Okay. So today's episode, we have the girls from MEI-CHA. We have Michelle, Lillian, and Kim from the MEI-CHA Team. Now MEI-CHA has been around for maybe 30 years. Yeah. They're like OG in the permanent cosmetics world. And what they do is they create PMU devices and tools that make people look real, "good." Get it. Because it's not really real because it's tattoo. Okay. Yeah. So I met my friends at MEI-CHA at a live event actually, the Vegas PMU Conference. Another example of why live events are really awesome. And I was just really impressed with the culture of their company. The fact that they're family-owned and operated and these three boss babes work together all the time. Like how do they do it? It's very similar to my work environment where we're all females, I got my mom's in the mix too. So we're butting heads left and right. But we're all so very close and it's difficult to do. So I wanted to kind of dive into that. The complexities and female relationships, especially female working relationships. You have to be a crazy, crazy, crazy good communicator. It's one thing being a female, being full of feelings, but an entrepreneurial female with ideas and leaders of qualities. Like who's the head, who's the head today? I don't know. But before we get into predominantly-owned female businesses and how to make them work, I want to read the review of the week. By the way, thank you guys. Thank you, thank you, thank you for leaving me reviews. Those of you who already have, and I just want to thank you guys by reading one every week. And sometimes I forget, but honestly, leaving me a review is the best thing you could do for me. You know how you kind of like tip your waiter or waitress if they give you good service? EPISODE 80: The Importance of Community, Providing Good Service, Achieving Your Goals, and a Strong Team www.sheilabella.com/80community 2 That's how you can leave me a tip. If I've given you good service today, I would like to kindly ask you to please leave me a review. And the reason why reviews are so important is because it helps cool people like you, more cool people like you find the show and get the right information to the right people. And it helps the ranking of my show and the ranking determines how many people it gets distributed to. So thank you so much to Everyday Glam PMU. She says, "Tons of actionable steps, knowledge and realness. I'm so grateful to have found this podcast at the beginning of my PMU journey." Oh wow. Yeah. If you're at the beginning of your PMU journey, I wish this podcast was around too in the beginning. When I first started, I was so lost. And she also says, "Sometimes I play an episode and it's exactly what I need to hear at the time." Oh, that makes me feel so good. "Thank you for answering questions. I didn't even know I had and giving me the perspective of a six figure PMU artist. You are helping me reach my own goals of being a successful PMU artist. And I look forward to all of the great things you will release into the universe in the future." This was beautifully written. Thank you so much Every day Glam PMU, hit me up on Instagram. Tell me, "Hey, you read my review today and I want to give you some props for it." Really, it means the world to me that you guys take the time to write a review or just to repost this episode or any episode and encourage and bless another woman. I know it's rare. You know it's rare. So that's why I try to repost everything. And I try to get back to you guys as much as possible, sometimes even with voice notes, I love voice notes. So for those of you who have predominantly females working for you, I want to know, and you can hit me up on Instagram. What is the experience for you guys like? Is it difficult? Is it harmonious? Is it kind of a little bit of both? Is there no gray area? Is it either all the way crazy or all the way super harmonious? Yeah. So, from everybody that I've talked to who has a predominantly-owned female business, it can get pretty tricky because, we bond, we bond so easily us women, especially if you're the type of person who likes this podcast, you love deep conversations and you get really fueled from them. I'm sure. So it puts another color on the friendship when you work professionally together, there is a color there that's a little bit different, which is takes I'm getting used to. EPISODE 80: The Importance of Community, Providing Good Service, Achieving Your Goals, and a Strong Team www.sheilabella.com/80community 3 And I'll be the first to admit that I've had some very deep friendships that have fallen apart and it was all because of work. So I just want to say that I don't believe that money is the root of all evil. I don't believe that. I don't believe that money corrupts people all the time. From my experience money has helped more so in revealing the character of people faster, which is really sad. But then again, it's just more information. So it might be good. It just depends on how you look at it, right? So when you're working with people that you deeply, deeply care about, you need to have: number one, a strong backbone, and you need to have really strong communication muscles. And that takes work. And for those of you who are scared to hire your first employee or to bring in a friend or family into your business, I understand it because we've all, we've all experienced that moment. When you first find out that your entire friendship with this woman was a lie, there's been backstabbing, judgment, betrayal, the list goes on, and nobody is exempt from this. I don't care how much money you have or how pretty you are. Every single one of us females has done this to each other. Yeah. So when we're hurt, when we're deeply hurt by somebody, we go off and we immediately create a story. We create one and tell ourselves things like, "F her. I knew she never really liked me. She was just using me this whole time.