Entrepreneur and business coach, Sophia Risinger, helps women create impactful choices. She is “The Queen” of Helping Women Choose Freedom & Fulfillment by Starting and Scaling an Impactful Online Course Biz. Her business, Sophia Rising is focused on teaching women how to be successful, take the steps necessary in claiming your future, and leading them toward their purpose and passion.
How did you decide to start your business? Tell us more about yourself.
I was born and raised in a small city in Canada. I attended business school there, and my 1st year of University. I kept thinking about how I could turn my passion into a stream of income. At the time, this was fitness. I decided to start an online fitness business, which I grew and maintained while in school and traveling between terms.
By my third year of University, I was weighed down and anxious about being in school. The material being taught was seemingly irrelevant to becoming an entrepreneur. It simply wasn’t applicable to creating a life of freedom and fulfillment on my own terms.
I didn’t want to let my family down by quitting school and had a lot of guilt. Instead, I came up with a biz plan. I persuaded my Dad to let me drop out, so I could pursue my first house flip project. The idea was to become a real estate developer like him.
This plan worked and allowed me to learn more hands-on, so I did another infill build project. While these real estate projects were in progress, I turned 4 other ideas into startup businesses. These included an esthetics business, 2 consignment businesses, and doing social media management.
It didn’t take long to realize that modeling my life work after what my Dad did was not for me. I was here for something else. All these projects were my way of searching for more meaning and purpose in my life…
Starting these separate businesses for surface reasons (money and meeting perceived external expectations) left me empty. Many of the business structures wouldn’t allow for full time and location freedom, which was part of the underlying drive for doing it in the first place…
I knew I wanted more.
I tried and quite a few times until I completely gave up on myself. I felt like the only way to succeed in not only making an impact but also having time and location freedom, was by having a man “save” me…
I felt like a damsel in distress.
Eventually, I saw everything I needed was already within me. I already was good enough.
This newfound sense of purpose and deep-rooted self-worth was the accumulation of personal development, joining masterminds, and working with coaches.
And that’s when my 7th business started, at the age of 22. By that point, I felt like a woman completely in control of her reality. I chose to help other women. I want women across the world to be able to create and scale their own purpose-driven, impactful, online course businesses.
I help women gain clarity and see the gifts they have to offer, the ways they can help people, AND how to make money doing it. They can do this whether they’re in their pajamas at home, or traveling around the world.
Essentially, I help them turn their past into their purpose and their passion, skills, and experience into successful online course biz.
All people need to make this happen is to invest in a strategic combination of coaching, masterminds, and online courses.
Talk about fulfilling “work”!!!
How did you go about creating your brand? What pushed this seventh business into play?
The sole idea was based on the fact that a person’s transformation starts on the inside. It starts with a person’s beliefs. Women need to know that their dreams were meant to be lived!
Most people don’t have a firm understanding of how to turn their past into their purpose. Helping them do this is essential, all while being extremely rewarding.
Fulfillment comes from a life of making a difference and serving other people. That’s why I call women who lead an aligned and an intentionally successful life a Queen. I combine this with helping women become aware of their feminine energy. I show them how to balance wisdom and intuition while being collaborative, playful, and creative in their masculine energy.
This is vital if they want to create tangible, grounded results. A woman who has developed this awareness and lives up to it is a mature Queen, whereas someone who demands, forces, and believes that circumstances happen TO her instead of FOR her would be considered an immature princess.
How does your brand work? What is the process?
We work 1:1, through a mastermind or course that provides you with a transformational, life-changing experience. This in turn leads you into becoming a successful entrepreneur so you can scale your online business.
The 3 steps required to become an online course Queen are:
1) First and foremost, you must BEcome the Queen version of yourself. This includes building success habits, gaining clarity on your purpose, and transforming paradigms and limiting beliefs into an aligned, authentic, and confident power source. (BE)
2) Learn and DO all the prioritized actions required to start or scale an impactful business. This is where business and online marketing strategies come into play. (DO)
3) Then you can HAVE your dream become reality. At this point, you’ve already created an automated, transformative process that is your online course. Now you get to help people and experience time and location freedom while earning passive income. (HAVE)
Can you share something with our readers, an idea that might resonate with them?
Creating a 6-figure business is absolutely possible if you focus on the right things…
Most entrepreneurs have information overload. They don’t actually know what to focus on to get results. For example, many women spend months on websites, business card creation, paid ads, etc., none of which you need to get started to have thousands of dollars coming in and ACTUALLY be in business.
Intentionally combining your experience, passion, and purpose and turning it into impactful online course biz is the best means for you to create a fulfilling life that you LOVE. That fulfilling life can include time, financial, AND location freedom.
What was your biggest challenge as you grew your business? How do you handle current challenges?
The biggest challenges regarding brand creation would be from years ago when I had lower self-awareness, confidence, and minimal understanding of my gifts. I didn’t know how to turn them into money, freedom, and fulfillment. Hence, the 6 startups were based SOLELY on creating money without purpose and passion.
I have minimal challenges in my daily life now that I have a loving support system, a coach, and a high-level peer group. I made this possible by setting my standards higher and investing in myself.
I do occasionally indulge in too many sci-fi, magical, or hero shows and loose sleep, ha… That in turn can make it challenging for me to show up present, collected, and as my best self for the people I love.
How do you manage your business finances? Did you fund your business with loans?
There was no funding involved in this business. I paid off my business loan from the sixth startup, and with the cash brought in organically in my first month with my 7th business. I’m only 23 and I’ve already done over 6 figures in sales. The expenses are very marginal, and the profits are very high.
Where do you see the future of your brand going? What’s the next level?
The short-term plan is to grow my team and increase the opportunities available for women at all points of their journey of going from newbie entrepreneurs to Queen CEO.
Higher-level masterminds are definitely coming ASAP, as well as retreats and live events as the COVID-19 situation recedes.
This brings to mind a commonly said quote:
“Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in 1 year and underestimate what they can in 10.”
If that’s the case, then imagine that instead of just a decade, what is possible for you to create and accomplish in a LIFETIME….?! A lifetime working toward one bigger mission allows for SO much growth, expansion, and opportunity. And, this is just the beginning.
I’ll definitely be helping a billion people’s lives. Think Oprah meets Tony Robbins, but like, me in 50 years.
Dreams are meant to be lived. Anything is possible.
Do you have a message for other creators trying to make a living through their creative efforts?
“You may not have it completely perfect your first time, or your sixth time, but you’ll never figure it out if you give up. Giving up is what the real failure would be. Having someone experienced in your corner will make the process and your growth infinitely faster. Your dreams are meant to be lived. They are not yours just for imagining, they are yours for the taking.”
Company name: Sophia Rising
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