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Entrepreneurial Outlaws

Entrepreneurial Outlaws is a podcast paving the way for the creatives, introverts, empaths, and spiritual folks who are tired of being taught the same old business and marketing strategies that just don’t work for them. We’re ready to share the REAL stories behind what it takes to run a sustainable online business from me, Melanie Knights, a Storyteller, Content Alchemist and Pinterest strategist for creative entrepreneurs and small e-commerce brands. Tune each week to learn how to create intention behind your content marketing so you can sell… without selling out.

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Episodes

Saying Goodbye to Podcasting and Continuing the Outlaw Legacy

Hey Outlaws, as mentioned, today is the last episode of Entrepreneurial Outlaws! I have been trying to record this final episode for the previous two weeks, and it’s been hard to figure out how to do this. It’s been emotional as well. But here I am, ready to say goodbye to podcasting, but not to you, my beloved community. Even if you do not hear me weekly in our podcast conversations or on Instagram, there are several ways we can continue our fruitful discussions. So today, I will focus on intro...

Nov 17, 202238 min

Language, Community and Loving Your Body with Courtney McCarthy

Hey Outlaws, welcome to this week's episode. Courtney McCarthy is joining us today to share her journey to becoming a wellness professional. She is the CEO and founder of Loyobo FIT, a fitness community dedicated to helping women ditch diet culture, find joy in movement, and figure out how to love their bodies. We also discussed how the pandemic changed the fitness industry and how they pivoted into the virtual world. Tune in to hear more insights. Enjoy! Disclaimer: This week's episode covers a...

Nov 10, 20221 hr 1 min

Flip the Script on HR with Candice Elliott

Hey Outlaws, welcome to this week's episode. Again, I will cover a topic I never discussed before - employment, entrepreneurship, and team hiring. Candice Elliott is joining us today to share her mission to flip the script on HR by helping impact-driven leaders thrive with their teams through HR best practices. So if you’re considering starting your own business or hiring a new team member, this episode is a perfect starting point. Tune in to hear more insights. Visit this episode's blog post he...

Nov 03, 20221 hr 7 min

Freeing Ourselves from Perfectionism with Nina Hannert-Nimmo

Hey Outlaws, welcome to this week's episode. Nina Hannert-Nimmo is joining us today to talk about mental well-being and mental health. We will discuss breaking up with the rules and moving away from perfectionism, managing our mental energy, navigating setbacks, and managing our minds. So if you’re a perfectionist and overthinker, this episode is for you. Tune in to hear more insights. Note from Nina: ‘’I’ve been reflecting on our recording and realized that the way I talked about spoon theory a...

Oct 27, 20221 hr 6 min

Confidently Manifest What You Really Want in Life with Efia Sulter

Hey Outlaws, welcome to this week's episode. Today I will cover a topic I never discussed before - mindset shifts and manifesting. Efia Sulter is joining us today to share her journey to becoming a mindset and manifestation coach. We cover a lot in today's episode about personal development, understanding the law of polarity, and the importance of spiritual energy. This conversation was such a good reminder that the wrong mindset could drag us away from being extraordinary. As the end of the yea...

Oct 20, 202238 min

3 Lessons From Two Years of Podcasting

Hey Outlaws, as promised, we have a different episode for you today on the show because Entrepreneurial Outlaws turns TWO this month! Since starting Entrepreneurial Outlaws back in 2020, a lot has changed and in some ways nothing has changed. Currently my business is so close to my heart and soul and I remain in self audit mode, making adjustments to ensure I’m doing business on my own terms and I’ve been so grateful to have you here on this journey with me. I’ve learned so much and today I want...

Oct 13, 202226 min

Reshaping Brands and Consumer Habits as Conscious Business Owners with Kate Carman

Along with creating slow businesses, I have seen a big push to create a conscious business. Today on Entrepreneurial Outlaws, Kate Carman, Founder & Creative Director of Studio Wilding, is sharing her story of overcoming burnout to eventually create a business that fits her wants and needs as a business owner and creative. This episode is for you if you’re scared of making a needed change because it may mean saying no to income or re-creating your boundaries. Visit this episode's blog post h...

Oct 06, 20221 hr 14 min

How To Create Your Own Self Nurture Menu

Outlaws, hustling actually isn't in our DNA, it is nurtured. This means we have got to collectively rethink and reframe self nurturing. We know that self-care is important, we know that it's not always a bubble bath and Netflix, we know that self-care can be tough. It can be heavy and involve hard conversations with ourselves and with others. Self-care can look like creating boundaries and then actually having to honor them, it can look like saying no ending relationships and it can even hurt us...

Sep 29, 202231 min

Healing with Cellular Release Therapy with Bre Byrd

Another podcast veteran is joining us today on Entrepreneurial Outlaws – Bre Byrd is joining us to share how she’s leaned into Cellular Release Therapy to not only heal her own generational trauma but create her own practice that helps womxn and queer folx heal from trauma on all levels. This conversation was such a good reminder that our health and business do not work in isolation from each other. If you’re ready to create a healthier business, this episode is a great starting place. Visit thi...

Sep 22, 202234 min

Learning How to Trust Yourself Again

Autumn seems to be the season of hustle culture messaging – we’re coming up on the end of the year and are often told that we need to make a final push whilst also planning for success in the new year. This mindset is a huge catalyst for entrepreneurial burnout. For me personally, this led to me not trusting myself as a business owner or creative. I remember asking for opinions from everyone around me instead of listening to my intuition. So today we are going to talk about self trust, learning ...

Sep 15, 202226 min

Recovering from Entrepreneurial Burnout Using Art with Ali Cranmer

Autumn seems to be the season of hustle culture messaging – we’re coming up on the end of the year and are often told that we need to make a final push whilst also planning for success in the new year. This mindset is a huge catalyst for entrepreneurial burnout. For me personally, this led to me not trusting myself as a business owner or creative. I remember asking for opinions from everyone around me instead of listening to my intuition. So today we are going to talk about self trust, learning ...

Sep 08, 20221 hr 29 min

7 Cozy Journal Prompts For Your Business

Welcome to season two of Entrepreneurial Outlaws! I’m so excited to explore the topic of entrepreneurial burnout with you this season because this comes up for so many of us in the online space. To start off, today we are talking about seven ways to pumpkin spice your business and really, your life, because this is all encompassing. I felt like it made sense to start this season off by talking about some of my favorite things, which is the symbolism of autumn and how this can really help us tap ...

Sep 01, 202249 min

Introducing Season 2 of Entrepreneurial Outlaws

Get ready Outlaws, a new season of the podcast is coming! This Autumn, we’ll be diving heart first into the topic of entrepreneurial burnout. Together we’ll explore the vicious burnout cycle, and how hustle culture and marketing trends prey on our insecurities. We’ll take a look at hustle fuelled launches, create a self nurture menu, hear from new and returning guest experts and so much more. Entrepreneruial Outlaws isn't just a podcast. It's a movement, a commitment to challenge the status quo ...

Aug 18, 20222 min

[Summer Series] 5 Ways to Measure Success in Your Business

Hey Outlaws, welcome to this week’s episode of the show. This episode is the last one before we go on our Summer break and I’m excited to share with you the 5 key ways you can measure success in your business so that you can take some intentional time with these prompts during these slow months. I’m also going to be sharing how I’ve personally measured the growth of Entrepreneurial Outlaws, what’s coming after the break, and a sneak peek into our new Patreon. We’ll be back on September 1st, but ...

Jul 21, 202248 min

[Summer Series] Preparing for Autumn

Hey Outlaws, welcome to episode 81. Thank you for joining me for the penultimate episode of our summer series. Before we dive in, I want you to know that we are going to be taking a little break over here at the Outlaw headquarters in August. We're not going to be releasing any new episodes during that month, but we will be planning and working behind the scenes because, let me tell you, there is some exciting stuff coming. Be sure to join the email list or connect with me on Instagram for all t...

Jul 07, 202223 min

[Summer Series] Cyclical Planning

Hey, Outlaws. Welcome to this brand-new episode of our summer series! At the time of this episode airing, we have just experienced the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere – the longest day of the year. This is often known as “midsummer” for those of you who have warm summertimes, and some of us call it the beginning of summer because we’re in very wet and rainy countries. We’ve also entered into Cancer season, and Cancer is a water sign – it can be associated with high emotions and I like...

Jun 23, 202228 min

[Summer Series] Planning Out Your Business’ Needs for the Summer

Hey Outlaws, welcome to episode 79. Today we are continuing with our summer series and this week we're gonna be getting a little bit strategic – we're going to look at planning out your business' needs for the summer. This is something that is so important when we are looking to take time off, whether it is in the summer or any other time of year. Last week, I introduced you to some questions that I've used in my own business to help me get ready for downtime, like what do I want my summer to lo...

Jun 09, 202226 min

[Summer Series] 4 Journal Prompts To Get Your Business Summer Ready

Today we are starting a five-part mini series! It's going to be a summer series that is going to take us right through to August, and we are going to be looking at how you can get your business summer ready. It’s really important for us to identify as individuals what it is that we really want to get from each season of our business, whether it's a physical season or winter spring summer, or whether chapter it is. How can you allow your business to actually give you the life that you want? I wan...

May 26, 202226 min

Creating Your Emotional Strategy as an Online Business Owner with Ora North

Welcome to a brand new guest episode, Outlaws. You’ve probably heard me talk about the book, I Don’t Want to be an Empath Anymore . I absolutely loved the way it has resonated with my own experiences as an online business owner and connected with the author, Ora North online. So, to have Ora on the podcast today feels like a huge honour. As someone who’s always felt very deeply and who also lives with Bipolar Disorder, Ora has become an expert at creating systems to manage, lessen, or amplify th...

May 19, 202245 min

Behind the Scenes: New Website and Shop Products

Hi, Outlaws! I’m SO excited for this month and because of that, I thought I would do a round up of where I’m at in business right now, what I’m focusing on, and I also want to introduce you to one of my newest projects that I’ve been talking about on Instagram for awhile that centres around the topic of fat phobia and body image. I want to start this episode with a trigger warning: if you have an eating disorder or are struggling with body image and hearing conversation about diet culture, bodie...

May 12, 202233 min

Intentional Content Repurposing with Sandy Norman

Hey Outlaws, welcome to a brand new episode and a brand new month which means a new mini series and new guests! Today, Sandy Norman is joining me on the show to talk about how to repurpose your content without the overwhelm so that it works for you and your business. And of course, we will have a little snippet on the importance of journaling because it’s a shared love of Sandy and I. Lastly, my new website is also being published this month and I cannot wait for you to see it because it’s been ...

May 05, 202229 min

Practical Ways to Check in with Yourself in Each Season of Business

If we want to embrace a slow business and be more present in each moment, then we have to be really intentional and practical with the way that we plan in our businesses. But what does this look like? How can we plan less in order to accomplish more? That’s what we're going to be diving into on the second installment of our planning series right here on Entrepreneurial Outlaws. But I want you to know that your goals are still valid, your audience still needs you, and your intuition is your best ...

Apr 28, 202234 min

Using Systems to Put Yourself First with Ellie McBride

Welcome to episode 73, Outlaws! I’m really excited for you to listen to my conversation today with Ellie McBride. Ellie is an OG listener of the show and an American expat who now lives in Ireland. She built her online business, Calibrated Concepts, to offer her more freedom to travel and to help her clients create an intentional home for their services. You’ll hear more about her immigration story, her moving from a full time employee to a full fledged business owner, and her love of systems. E...

Apr 21, 202249 min

Honouring the Different Seasons of Business

This month we are going to be talking about seasons -- not just seasons from the year point of view or in terms of weather and things like that -- we're actually going to be talking about seasons of business. This is an episode I've wanted to record for a while, so this month we're going to explore this idea over two episodes. The reason I want to talk about this is because we've talked a lot about cycles -- lunar and creative -- but there are so many different cycles around us. One of the thing...

Apr 14, 202234 min

Choosing Yourself and Confidently Living in Your Truth with Ali Knight

Hey Outlaws, today we are joined by Ali Knight, an intuitive soul coach and empowered alchemist (could we be anymore similar)? I met Ali when I attended her retreat in Rhoscolyn and her presence left such an incredible and permanent impact on me. We are having an incredible conversation today that is all about truth and confidently choosing yourself. You’ll hear some powerful parts of her own experience and story of stepping into her truth along with some really actionable tips to connect with y...

Apr 07, 20221 hr 11 min

[Mindset Myths] Reimagining “She believed she could so she did.”

“She believed she could, so she did,” I used to love and live by this quote, or at least I used to try and live by. I used to believe that this was who I was meant to be. I was faking it till I made it. I was pretending because I desperately wanted to believe in myself. But in reality, this just created trauma for me as a business owner, and I quickly suffered from comparisonitis and a loss of direction. So instead, I decided to do business how I wanted to do it. I believed I could, but I didn’t...

Mar 31, 202227 min

[Mindset Myths] I’d Rather Be Tired Than Broke

Hey Outlaws, welcome to episode 69. Today we are continuing our Mindset Myth series, and as promised, we are gonna be talking about hustle. Today on the podcast, I have sourced many of the most common clichés, girl boss quotes, statements, phrases, whatever you want to call them – these things designed to inspire us and motivate us, but to be truthful are very toxic and a little bit dangerous to our energy and mental health. I know that many of you have probably heard these quotes and you've pro...

Mar 24, 202228 min

[Mindset Myths] Boundaries

Last week on the show we introduced our newest series, Mindset Myths, where we’re breaking down some of the biggest myths that we are constantly taught as online business owners. We started with the idea that nothing can grow in our comfort zones, and today we’re going to talk about how boundaries have been weaponised in the online space, how people use them to shirk their responsibilities, and then how we can actually honor our boundaries in a healthy and mindfully productive way. Please know t...

Mar 17, 202228 min

[Mindset Myths] Nothing Grows in Your Comfort Zone

Hey Outlaws, welcome to episode 67 of the podcast. Recently on Instagram, I asked the Outlaw community what they believed some of the biggest clichés of growing an online business were and I got a lot of really great responses. So, from that feedback we are embarking on a new series where we break down these clichés, where they come from, and how to move away from them. First up, we’re covering the whole idea of comfort zones and the push to step outside of them. In this episode we’re going to t...

Mar 10, 202227 min

LGBTQIA+ Allyship in Business with Jenna Teague + Bre Byrd

I’m so excited for this guest episode of Entrepreneurial Outlaws -- Jenna Teague and Bre Byrd are here to chat about their work with LGBTQIA+ allyship in business. Jenna and Bre are moving past “safe spaces” and into “affirming spaces” and today they are sharing exactly what that can look like for you as a business owner who wants to be an ally. This work is so needed and Jenna and Bre are doing the work to make it easily accessible. This conversation not only made me think, but left me with a t...

Mar 03, 202237 min
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