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Jen Laffin

Gurnee, United States

Jen Laffin is the founder of Goal Getter Solutions, where she serves as a Success Mentor to help small business owners step out of their self-doubt and into their big goals. Jen is known for her empowering approach to accountability, doubting your doubt, and banishing imposter fear. She was named a Top Voice in Coaching and Mentoring on LinkedIn in both 2023 and 2024. Jen is the host of The Flight School Podcast, founder of the Goal Getters Club, and a soon-to-be-published author.

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Business Strategy 30.90
Coaching
Entrepreneurship
Leadership 30.41
Public Relations 32.44

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1 Article/Blog
If you’re someone who sets big goals, holds yourself to a high standard, and wants to get things “just right,” overthinking may feel familiar.
LinkedIn
April 10, 2025
You overthink, not because it means there’s something wrong with you, but because your brain is wired for your high-achieving and, thanks to our primal brain, protection.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

26 Author Newsletters
Time to Leave Your Comfort Cave? Here's your eviction notice
Linkedln
November 20, 2025
If you’ve been feeling stuck, restless, or like you’re busy but not moving forward in your business, you might actually be hiding in a place I call the Comfort Cave.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

Why Traditional Accountability Fails -- and What Works Instead
Linkedln
September 18, 2025
Business owners who successfully scale their businesses know that accountability is a must have, not a nice to have. But it's not the kind of traditional accountability you may be thinking of.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

Why High Achievers Can't Stop Overthinking
LinkedIn
April 10, 2025
If you’re someone who sets big goals, holds yourself to a high standard, and wants to get things “just right,” overthinking may feel familiar.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

Your Self-Sabotage Strategy: How Are You Getting In The Way of Your Own Success?
Linkedln
April 03, 2025
Sarah had been looking forward to starting her own dog care business since she was a teenager.

When I asked her about her plans for launching, she said, "I just need to do a little more work on my website and tighten up my offers then I'll be ready to go."

Three months later when I checked in with her, there was no finished website and no dog care business for Sarah.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

Didn't Make Your Q1 Goals? Here are 5 Goal Getter Shifts to Make NOW
Linkedln
March 27, 2025
If the first three months of the year have come to a close and you haven't done much about reaching them, this is your wakeup call.
But first, I want to tell you something important: Your lack of progress is feedback, not failure. Making yourself feel bad or beating yourself up over your lack of progress is not helpful. Just don't do it.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

How's the Balance in Your Self Trust Bank? (Here's why it matters more than you think)
Linkedln
March 06, 2025
Ever set a goal, but then struggle with the follow through?

You may think a lack of motivation is to blame, but it isn't.

It's self-trust.

But the good news is that even if your self-trust is low, you can get it back. Here's how goal getters do it.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

Feeling Stuck? Five Proven Strategies to Get Your Goals Moving Again
LinkedIn
February 20, 2025
There is nothing more frustrating than not being able to find your way out of a sea of stuckness when you've got goals to get.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

9 Lies Imposter Loves to Tell to Trip Up Your Goal Journey
Linkedln
February 13, 2025
You've set out on your goal journey and are about 10-14 days in. You're far enough away from the start line that the enthusiasm and energy that come with fresh starts have disappeared, but the excitement from seeing the end in sight has not arrived yet.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

Why Experiencing Self-Doubt in Your Goal Journey is Actually a GOOD Thing
Linkedln
February 06, 2025
Life was much different for our prehistoric ancestors than it is for most of us 21st-century humans.

There were wildebeests and sabertooth tigers to watch out for. The weather was extremely unpredictable. (The Weather Channel didn't exist until 1980.) Homes and shelters were not very hardy or plentiful.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

The Real Reason You Can’t Stay Consistent (Hint: It’s Not Lack of Willpower)
Linkedln
January 30, 2025
You start a new goal feeling motivated and ready to go. Your energy is high and showing up to do the work is no big deal. (This is the magic of the Fresh Start Effect.)

But a few weeks (or days) in, your consistency starts slipping. You start thinking about skipping out and many times, you actually do.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

Party On!: Why Celebration Matters in Your Goal Journey
Linkedln
December 05, 2024
But when I ask, "What are you struggling with right now?", the flood gates open.

Now don't get me wrong, I need my clients to tell me where they are stuck so that I can help them get unstuck.

But this also shows that we are predisposed to keeping our struggle top-of-mind. It is much easier to articulate what's wrong rather than what's right.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

Party On!: Why Celebration Matters in Your Goal Journey
LinkedIn
November 21, 2024
Gratitude is in the air! (It IS November, after all -- and Thanksgiving is next week here in the US.)

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership

Lack Patience? How to Grow Your Delayed Gratification Muscle
Linkedln
November 14, 2024
These are just a few of the responses I got when I asked goal setters to reflect on their patience with their goal journey.

Wanting to see the results of our efforts is natural. We aren't going through the discomfort of doing hard things for fun, are we?

But a lack of patience while the results are working themselves out often leads to self-doubt doom thinking or even worse -- quitting.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

5 Tips To Stay Consistent in Your Goal Journey (Especially When Self-Doubt Kicks In)
LinkedIn
November 07, 2024
Here's something you may not realize: Goals and self-doubt go hand-in-hand.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership

5 Tips to Overcome Imposter Fear to Reach Your Big Goals
Linkedln
October 31, 2024
I received a text from one of my clients earlier this week.

She knew that creating video content here on LinkedIn was an important part of building the know/like/trust factor with her ideal clients so she challenged herself to create a series of videos and post one a day here on LinkedIn.

Videos are a new medium for her so it was a challenge that she knew she needed, but was hesitant to embrace because sharing videos takes vulnerability to a new level.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

How to Break Through the Discomfort of Doing Hard Things in Just 90 Seconds
Linkedln
October 24, 2024
u sit down at your desk, the task you’ve been putting off staring back at you from the screen. It’s been lurking in the back of your mind for days, but now, there's no avoiding it.

Your hands hover over the keyboard, yet you can’t bring yourself to begin. The weight of uncertainty and self-doubt settles in, wrapping around your thoughts like a fog.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

Hard Times Are Just a Season
Linkedln
August 20, 2024
Try as I might, I can't catch a break lately.

We are closing on our new house on Monday it seems like every time I check my email, there's another 'situation' to be handled.

Our current home isn't sold yet -- and has only had one showing.

To add even more to our plate, we are losing our 13 year old dog, Romeo, this week too.

There's more, but I think you get the idea.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

Focus Time: Boost Your Productivity & Achieve Bigger Goals
Linkedln
July 30, 2024
I've talked a lot about how it's easy to spend more time on what's urgent over what's important and what's easiest over what's challenging.

Our human brain defaults to these easier choices because they use less energy and involve less risk. (Remember, your primal brain's three goals are to keep you safe, alive, and lazy. Any choice that violates any of these three rules automatically gets rejected.)

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

It's About Progress, Not Perfection
Linkedln
June 25, 2024
s I write this, we are about to begin the 3rd quarter of 2024 -- the beginning of a new quarter and the halfway point of 2024.

It is time to stop and take note of where you are at with your 2024 goals.

If you've made progress, you might be excited about this work.

If not, you may think of closing out this newsletter right now without finishing it.

Please don't.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

3 Powerful (& Simple) Questions to Help You Doubt Your Doubt
Linkedln
May 31, 2024
Here’s something I learned that changed everything for me: Thoughts are not always facts. Thoughts are sentences (sometimes with some emotion added in) that run through our heads. That’s it. They can be true (such as ‘Every day ends with the letter ‘y’), but they aren’t always true (such as Monday is the best day of the week).

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

Mistakes are Data: Look for the Lessons
Linkedln
April 24, 2024
I had spent a long, few days at my husband's pharmacy, helping with the store closing clearance sale, making endless trips to the dumpster, and vacuuming up more dust bunnies than I could count.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

What's Your Next Best Choice?
Linkedln
March 29, 2024
As you start out on your goal journey, the bigger your goal, the more intangible the goal line may feel. There's a lot of territory that needs to be covered between here and there. It's easy to let overwhelm sneak in.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

Stuck in Analysis Paralysis?
Linkedln
March 22, 2024
Why? Because getting stuck in analysis paralysis means you spend more time thinking, learning, researching, planning, fortune telling, playing out possible scenarios, and getting ready to work on your goal than you do taking action.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

25 Tips to Make It Through the Messy Middle of Your Goal Journey
Linkedln
March 08, 2024
The Messy Middle is that part of your goal journey where you've run out of the fresh energy that often accompanies new beginnings and have yet to reap the rewards of your work.

It's the part of your goal journey where your goals may stall out or where you might quit on your goals altogether.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

Six Self-Doubt Roadblocks to Avoid in Your Goal Journey
Linkedln
March 01, 2024
A Self-Doubt Roadblock (SDR) is the term I've given to the thoughts and behaviors that take over our best intentions when we are working on a goal. They have one purpose -- to get us to stop moving forward with our goal work and abandon any chances of success.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Public Relations

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Next-Level Entrepreneur: Vision + Identity Workshop

Location: Zoom    Date : September 10, 2025 - September 10, 2025     Organizer: Jen Laffin

The Next Level Entrepreneur: Vision & Identity Workshop isn’t a fluffy pep talk or a vision board session.

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