In this Business Blast Podcast episode, host Tyler Wagner interviews serial entrepreneur, author, and business coach Carissa Hill. Carissa shares two pivotal personal stories: how she used the nine‑month timeline of her pregnancy as a deadline to intensify focus, marketing, and sales, scaling her business to near‑seven figures, and later to $1.5 million; and how a diagnosis of androgenetic alopecia led her to shave her hair, embrace vulnerability, and shift focus to strengths and acceptance. She emphasizes that genuine human connection with audiences, teams, and clients outweighs technical marketing tactics. Her top business advice is to become comfortable with the worst‑case scenario, freeing oneself from fear. She also stresses the importance of continual learning, warning against the “know‑it‑all” mindset. For personal happiness, Carissa cites non‑attachment and gratitude, drawing from Buddhist practice. The book that most impacted her is The Go‑Giver, teaching that giving value leads to receiving. Finally, she directs listeners to her Facebook community, “Coffee with Carissa,” where 16,500 members gather.
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All right everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Business Blast podcast. I'm your host Tyler Wagner. Today I have Carissa Hill with us. She is a serial entrepreneur, author, international speaker, and business coach specializing in helping women business owners scale and grow their businesses to 7 figures and beyond. So welcome to the show.
Hi, thank you for having me.
Of course, grateful to have you here, Carissa. We'll dive into the first one. The first question I have for you is, what is the best story from your life that has an underlying valuable message?
Yeah, I have two answers for this, if that's okay. They're both quite quick ones. One is, I guess the best story is when I, when I got pregnant, I suddenly decided to take my time very seriously because I had a deadline of, you know, 9 months to get my shit together to reach the goal that I wanted to reach in that time. And in that timeframe, I employed my husband. I went all in on the marketing and sales. We scaled to almost 7 figures in that 9 months. And then after I actually had my baby, we took my business to $1.5 million simply because I got extremely disciplined with the way that I spent my very limited chunks of time and was focusing on the right thing. So that's definitely been one thing that's had a massive, massive impact. And the other story is that I was actually— I shaved all my hair off. I used to have really long hair and I shaved my hair. Well, not all my hair off. I kept some in March of this year, actually, after years and years and years of it just getting thinner and thinner and thinner. I was actually diagnosed with androgenetic alopecia, which is a genetic female hair loss condition where your hair just keeps getting finer and finer. And that's actually been one of the best things that's ever happened to me because it forced me to get extremely vulnerable and really accept myself for how I am and for who I am and to focus more on my strengths and the things that I do love about myself and to let go of all of the things that I just really can't control. And so those have been two of the best things in my life that have had the most positive impact on my business.
Yes, thank you for sharing both of those. We appreciate it. The next one I have for you is, what is the most valuable piece of information we should know that's within your expertise or industry?
Yeah, so I'm in, I teach online marketing. So Facebook marketing is one of the biggest things that I focus on and also growing a business to be able to run without the owner in it. And I think the most valuable piece of information is that the actual human connection that you have with your audience, with your team, with your clients, and the relationship with them and your followers online is more important than just marketing. And I think a lot of people think about marketing as like techniques and tools and targeting and copy and all of that kind of stuff. Whereas I honestly believe that it's the real connection that you have with the people that will have the biggest impact.
Yes, I could not agree more. Relationships and connection with people, I think, are the number one thing. So the next thing I have, and maybe it ties in, but what's your best piece of overall business advice? So not necessarily industry-specific.
Yeah, the best piece of business advice I was ever given was from a mentor, not someone that I worked with, but someone that I looked up to. And he said, get comfortable with your worst-case scenario. Because if you can be comfortable and accepting of what the worst thing is that could possibly happen, then you can just go ahead and do it anyway because you've let go of the fear.
Yes. Yeah. And I think that was actually one of the biggest things that helped me when I dropped out of school like 6 years ago to start my own business. And it was like I had high anxiety and it was freaking me out at first because I didn't know what I was going to do, really. And then I realized I'm like, what is the worst thing that could happen? And then it hit hit me. I was like, well, the worst thing that can happen is I fail, I end up back at my parents, and then I try another business. So I think that's the exact same for me.
Yeah, right.
And I was like, you know what, my parents' house is pretty sick. There's like a pool there. I'm like, that's really not that bad. So I was like, I think I can handle that. So then, you know, I don't know, I ended up working out. But even, even still, it's like, I think we let our minds race off to like imaginary places that really it's not going to be that bad. So, um, yeah, the next one I have for you is, if you could give your younger yourself, one piece of advice, what would that be?
Probably stop thinking you know it all and know enough because you don't. There's always more to learn. I think one of the mistakes I made in my early years of business was thinking I knew everything and that I didn't need help and I didn't need to read books or do courses or have coaches. But I guess when I finally got over myself, I realized that, oh my God, you can learn so much from other people and there's always more to learn.
Yeah, it kind of goes along with that Ralph Waldo Emerson quote where it's like you can learn something from any— I'm going to butcher it— but from any person. I agree with that. No matter a homeless person, no matter who they are, I believe you can learn something from everybody. The next one kind of going a different path. In your opinion, what is the key to happiness?
Yeah. For me, I classify myself a pretty happy person these days. Upset me. And that comes down to acceptance of what you can and can't control, non-attachment, which I've actually got from Buddhism, practicing non-attachment. So not being attached to expectations or specific outcomes and just kind of be grateful for what is. And coming from a place of love with everything that you do in your personal life and your business. So I try and always like pre-frame myself in every situation that I'm going into to set the intention to come from a place of love rather than any other emotion. And it makes a really nice life.
And what is the best book that you've read and what was the number one thing you learned from that?
I really— my favorite book is The Go-Giver by Bob Burg. It just had a really profound impact on me. And probably the best thing that I learned from that was that the more you give, the more you receive. And it really had a high emphasis on giving. So being in online business with my content marketing, as soon as I put more of a focus on what I can give rather than what I want to get, my business exploded.
And what is your favorite quote and why?
Favorite quote's actually from that book, and it is, "Your true worth is determined by how much you give in value than receive in payment or then accept in payment." Because it reminds me of the reason why I'm doing what I do. Yes.
Thank you so much for coming on. The last question I have for you before we let you go, I know I'm sure a lot of our audience members are curious is where's the best place for them to find and connect with you online?
Yeah, the best place, probably my Facebook group called Coffee with Carissa. We've got about 16,500 people in there at the moment.
Awesome. Perfect. Thank you again for jumping on.
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