The Secret Sauce to Success with Monique Rodriguez

What is it like to be a personal assistant at Mielle? Sierra is spilling the beans in this podcast interview. 

Who is ready for 2020? Buckle up because I am going to prepare you in this episode on how to have an awesome successful year. 

In this episode we talk about being bold and openly sharing your faith in business.  We cannot forget where our blessings come from.  In this episode I'm interviewing my friend @Marilyn_battiel

Are you closing out this year strong?  I share some tips on how you can finish strong and go into 2020 with clear vision. 

What's the secret sauce to maintaining momentum in business? Find out in this episode 

In this episode, I talk about the importance of giving and how giving from your business and personal increases your mood as well as the benefits on your health.  We are here to serve....learn more in this episode. 

What happens when Plan A doesn't work, you get creative and you go to plan B.  All wise business people have a plan B, and find out why in this episode. 

In this episode I teach you how to build strategic partnerships to grow your business or brand.   In building a brand you have to be strategic and plan, plan, plan.   

There is nothing worse than to see a business owner treat an employee or customer with disrespect.  If you want sustainable growth, sometimes you have to learn to bite your tongue.  Conflict in business is not always a bad thing, it teaches us and helps us to grow and become the CEO who God has called you to be. So in this episode I share tips on how to handle conflict in business. 

Whatever happened to good ole customer service.  What happen to the days when people said please and thank you.  I see and have experienced myself a lot of businesses that forget the basic fundamentals of business and that is having good customer service.  Your customer service can determine if you will have repeat customers or not.  Your customer service will dictate how people spread your business word of mouth and oh don't let me get into social media, that can be dangerous if you have bad customer service so in this episode I talk about just that Good ole customer service. 

In this episode I teamed up with ex-retail buyer from Target Jasmin Foster to give the inside scoop from a buyers perspective on what it takes to get into retail stores such as Target.  While I am very blessed to have the amount of stores I am in, there is a lot of behind the scenes that you must learn in order to go into retail stores.  From understanding how to present your marketing plan, the fees, the contracts etc.  Jasmin was also generous enough to also team up with me on creating a retail course to teach the ins and outs of going into retail stores that will release this Friday.  Be sure to download, subscribe to this podcast and also follow us on social media @exquisitemo @thesecretsaucetosuccess and @j.nicole.fos 

I help my mentees with the roadmap to success but we can not design a roadmap if we have no goals.  If you are at a point where you feel like your brain needs structure, if your ideas are all over the place and you feel overwhelmed.  Listen to this podcast to help you start over and plan out your steps and set goals.   When you set your goals up, your are setting up your map for success.   All successful people set goals.  Do we accomplish them all; probably not, but we sure try.  The most important piece is that you at least set up goals so you have something to aim for. 

In this episode I talk about the importance of prioritizing or what some people call Balancing family and business.  This was a highly requested episode so I decided to share my tips on how I balance family and business.  Be sure to download and subscribe and follow us on ig @thesecretsaucetosuccess @exquisitemo @mielleorganics 

In this episode of the secret sauce I wanted to share some insights on the best way to secure collaborations in business in order to increase brand awareness and grow your following.  Collabs was one of my best moves I did to grow my brand. So I'm going to walk you how to secure to those strategic partnerships.  Be sure to download and subscribe and follow us on social media @thesecretsaucetosuccess @exquisitemo @mielleorganics

How is that I work with my husband? How were we able to build together? Was it easy? NO!!!!!!!  But in this episode we share a little bit with our listeners on how we do it together as a team.  In this episode I decided to interview my husband and business partner Melvin Rodriguez, so you can hear it from his mouth on how we do it.   Be sure to follow us @thesecretsaucetosuccess and @exquisitemo and @mielleorganics