Build in Public Daily

Practice

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: One of the things that I hope for for this building public podcast is that. It is not about a cognitive understanding. It is about an experience that I'm creating in this space first for myself second. for those who hear it. And then third, for myself when I hear it again later, from a different perspective at a different point in time. And my hope is through opening myself up and allowing. The insights, understandings, and moments to flow through me as I let them...

Build Along the Way

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to today's Build and Public podcast. You're joining me for the first time. I'd like to welcome you. This podcast is a place where we experiment, where we try new things, where we see who we are in between the spaces and so. , I invite you to enter into this space on this podcast tonight. It's called Build in Public because I'm literally feeling like I'm building my myself publicly through sharing and recording. Daily, and it's interesting because when I ta...

Building Together

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to today's Build in Public podcast. I am Stacy Gonzalez, the hostess of this amazing podcast, and I'm doing something a little differently today because I'm trying to also cook dinner at the end of a very long day. And what I'm finding for myself is that when I create content like this podcast, I do a little Facebook Live. When I go for a walk with the dog in the morning, it feels great to be doing an activity that brings me grounding, that brings me joy. ...

Learning today is a gift

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to today's Build and Public podcast. If you are joining for the first time, I just wanna welcome you. I'm Stacy Gonzalez and I'm building two companies, one for women and another for educators. . And really at the end of the day, they're both focused on the same thing, which is learning and growing. And that's the reason why I do this daily Build and public podcast is because every day we have an opportunity to learn something new. And every day we have an...

Inside Work

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to the Build in Public Podcast. I'm Stacy Gonzalez and I am thrilled that you have decided to join me on this founder's journey of building a business in public. And today's podcast, I'm gonna start with a little admission. I have a goal that at the end of every day, I record a podcast episode to update on the. The bad, the ugly of this founder's journey and yesterday was Thursday and I took the day off by and large and really just had nothing much on my s...

Founder's Journey

[00:00:00] Renee Devore: A slumber party. [00:00:01] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to today's Filled in Public podcast, and if you're new to the podcast, first and foremost, I just wanna thank you for joining. Welcome. I'm Stacey Gonzalez and this is a Build in Public podcast. Where we talk about the company that I'm building, I'm building two, but the one I mostly talk about is this one called Soul Growth with my business partner Renee Devore, who is also here with me live today. Hi everyone. An...

Confidence

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to tonight's Build and Public podcast. I'm Stacy Gonzalez, and if you're new, this is the space where every day at the end of a long entrepreneurial day, I document my learning and my journey, and there's so many things that happen throughout the course of my day that to distill it down. Into one 10 minute recording oftentimes feels almost impossible, but today I know the thing that is the highlight and the low light for me and the theme that continues to ...

Creativity Build in Public Daily 23

Welcome to today's Build and Public podcast. I'm Stacy Gonzalez, founder of Soul Growth, A community for heart led soulful women in business who want to do business differently by bringing all of them to work with themselves every day. And so as I'm building this company, my co-founder and I today on Mondays, we work. Uh, we live close enough and so she comes over to my, uh, house and we were working in the office today and I'm building out some technical, uh, requirements for the, uh, website a...

The Growth Path Build in Public Daily 22

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: So tonight was a tough night, and so many pieces about being a entrepreneur and a founder are so uncertain and most of the. You're going through the motions without being the motions. Without being in the motions. And today on our growth path work, which is the work with educators, it was really a challenging day for me because I feel like. Both the sole growth work I'm doing and the growth path work I'm doing, while very different in scope and how I'm approaching...

Suddenly, What a Wonder! Build in Public Daily 21

Welcome to the Soul Growth Build in Public podcast. There's something about this word suddenly that is really coming up for me today, and so for my build in public update around the sole growth company that we are building, I think this word suddenly is the word I wanna emphasize. and what has occurred to me as I am a Chicago native. I live in the Chicagoland area where , the winters are really, really dark and really, really cold, where you aren't even sure that nature exists outside because th...

Growing Together Build in Public Daily 20

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to the Soul Growth Build and Public Podcast. Thank you for joining us today. I'm Stacy Gonzalez, one of the co-founders of our Build Public podcast. And for the first time tonight, I'm here with my co-founder, Renee Devore. Say hello, Renee. Hello everyone. So tonight we are going to talk about the highs and the lows of being founders of a startup. And I'm gonna share my high of today and my low. And then I'm gonna pass this over to Renee for her to share ...

Lots to Learn Build in Public Daily 19

Hello, my friends. Welcome to the Building Public Podcast. I'm Stacy Gonzalez, your host and co-founder of Soul Growth, a boutique and unique lifestyle brand creating soulful experiences for women who desire to live the life that they love and deserve. And so today's update is gonna be pretty. because I'm tired. And it's a Friday, and it's Easter weekend, and it was a really busy day today and very emotionally charged. Um, a lot of conversations that did not go great for me today and, and some t...

Boundaries on the Execution Build in Public Daily 18

Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Okay, my friends. Welcome to today's Soul Growth Building Public podcast. I'm not gonna do this again. This is my fifth time trying to record tonight's podcast. I'm tired. My eyes are burning. I keep yawning and I'm thinking, what am I offering in tonight's, uh, update if I can't even get the update out? But I'm now standing and walking around in my living room ready to share from my heart with you. So this one is gonna get delivered and shipped no matter what. So I'm Dr. St...

We've Got Goals Build in Public 17

Hello, my friends. Thanks for joining me tonight, uh, my soul filled build and public update. And if you're new to my podcast, I just wanna welcome you. I'm so glad that you are joining along on my journey to discovering and uncovering who I am and what I'm building, and how I'm gonna change the world. . So I'm Dr. Stacy Gonzalez, and I am the co-founder of Soul Growth. We are a boutique and unique lifestyle brand, creating soulful experiences both digitally and in person for women who desire to...

My Soul is Growing Build in Public Daily 16

Welcome to today's podcast. I'm Dr. Stacy Gonzalez, and this is The Daily Build in Public Podcast. Today was a particularly difficult day. I woke up with a splitt. migraine, it felt like somebody had taken a knife and shoved it right into my left upper temporal lobe or right above my eye and it hurt so bad and I got up and about 6:37 AM took some medication and laid back. And I had been really just struggling through the weekend, uh, with some real low energy, especially Sunday, yesterday, where...

From Beginning to End Build in Public Daily 15

For today's build and public update, I'm gonna talk about where I started on Monday morning and where I ended on Friday afternoon, and the journey of learning that occurred to me this week and what I built this. this week. I built my own inner confidence. I built Inner Resolve. I built stronger connections to my past and how they influence and impact my world every moment and even today in this moment. And so I'm just gonna juxtapose. The first conversation I had at Monday and who I was, and the...

Spiritual Physics Build in Public Daily 14

[00:00:00] For today's Build and Public podcast, I'm gonna take two maybe opposing directions and see where they may converge by the end of this podcast. So we'll see. The first thing I'm gonna start with is just a little daily update. So Tim Gonzales, my partner in life is a physics teacher, a high school physics. [00:00:27] and he is one of the smartest men I know. Analytical, mathematical. When you think physics teacher and you have an image in your head, that is certainly who I am married to...

Brain Breaking Energy Build in Public Daily 13

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: There's a couple things I'm noticing about this Build in Public Podcast and this learning soul growth journey that I'm on is that every day I get a little bit more clarity. Every day I become a little bit more confident. To show up fully me in these new spaces and places where I am interacting with others, and there's so much goodness to update since I last shared four days ago, which was last Friday. [00:00:48] I did not do a podcast update yesterday because my b...

An Idea Plus One Step 12

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: So I have an idea, [00:00:06] and this idea is stretching me and causing me to think differently about who I am, how I'm showing up in the world, and what I want to create and do. [00:00:29] What I realized about this exciting idea that I have is I get caught up in the 85 different moves and chess pieces that could possibly happen if I began to go down this road and when I worked in education for 20. , that was the way you had to operate. [00:01:00] You had to ope...

Building in a Bathtub

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Today was a really difficult and challenging day for me, and I wanna share in today's Build in Public podcast what difficult feels like when I'm actually going through it. And it's. Private and secret, and nobody sees it or feels it but me and I don't really know how to share it publicly. So I'm gonna use this podcast tonight as an attempt to share what building in public feels like. [00:00:53] I started today knowing that there were some things off kilter [00:01:...

The Inner Tree Build In Public 10

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: So I just thought of something that, an image that popped up in my head from the last recording I just made for the podcast and when I was an educator. One moment that really stands out for me was this day when I was teaching this short story called The Most Dangerous Game. [00:00:30] When I was a new teacher, I had so much enthusiasm and I was so open, and I had such a vision and purpose and mission because I knew I was there to inspire kids, to see themselves an...

Podcast Playground Build in Public 09

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: So I think that this is episode nine of the Build and Public Podcast, and I've been having a lot of fun playing in this podcast playground, but I think it's time to get a little more serious. And so with that, I've come up with a little bit of a new structure. A new format, which I will be implementing in the next couple days and weeks here moving forward, which will include interviewing people about their soul growth journey because we all are on our own journeys...

This Is The Best I Have For Today Build in Public Daily 8

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: I am really tired today. Welcome to the Build and Public Podcast. [00:00:12] I feel like at this point, after eight episodes, that I should have greater clarity. [00:00:26] the direction I should go with this podcast, and instead today I feel less clarity, less enthusiasm, more confusion, and more overwhelm than I've had in some time. Not just about the podcast, but about all of it. I woke up today really tired, [00:01:00] very low energy, and I'm still working re...

Yes, I was Fired, but I Can Still Help Build in Public 7

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: it's Friday, and for today's Build in Public podcast, it's gonna be kind of short and sweet because today was a bit of an off day. I was really, really tired today. Yesterday was a 14, 16 hour day with several in-person meetings, and I underestimated how draining that would be. That said, the meetings were incredible and as I've been reflecting on yesterday's meeting, It's really sparked for me this understanding that [00:01:00] the sales process, it's really a da...

Committing to an Abundance Mindset Build in Public Daily 6

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: today I'm gonna share a journal entry from a week ago and one week ago from today. I. Um, have a coach from I'm, um, a fellow in on execs on deck, a program which is for executives who are looking to transition either into being a founder or being, um, a, um, executive in a tech startup space. And so, um, as a part of that program, what comes with that is six executive coaching sessions. [00:00:41] And so last week was my first executive coaching session, and one ...

Live in the Spirit First Build in Public Daily 5

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to the Build in Public Podcast. I am your host, Dr. Stacy Gonzalez. I am the co-founder of a company called Soul Growth, where we empower women to live their best lives. We're still working on what we do, who we are, how we do it. But, um, super excited to be here with you today and the way that I'm going to approach podcast number five, this is the fifth time playing in this podcast playground, um, is I decided after last week's playground that I was goin...

Blessed in the City Build in Public 04

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: So today was one of those days. I don't even know if it's one of those days. It's actually a day like I've never experienced before. And because of that, this is very humbling to. Publicly. [00:00:33] So I'm just gonna tell the story to the best of my ability of what happened today. [00:00:48] Renee and I had a meeting with this woman named Laura Hollow. who owns a shop in [00:01:00] downtown Chicago, in the city called Soul Chicago. And the way we met her was in ...

Measuring Metrics Take Two - Build in Public Daily 3

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: This is what happens when you try to do your Zoom at 9:43 PM and you're 48 years old, and I get up usually at like three, four o'clock. [00:00:08] Okay, here we go. So my hi for today. Um, my hi is I attended this amazing podcast event and actually Jethro, who is the producer of the show, was there as well, and it was for contact creators. But the thing that really stuck out to me about that was how having a podcast is really, um, about clarifying who you. [00:00:...

Measuring Metrics Build in Public 2

day two, build in public update. The high for today is that I feel like I'm getting clarity on strategy, and clarity between Renee and I. There's a very different perspective and way in which we approach our building of soul growth. And so today we're, we had some conversations and I'm starting to really see how a really strong social media and content generation strategy is likely where we're headed. Building that into community, seeing what our audience, community members, partners, whatever t...

Is Meditation a BIP Metric? - Build in Public 1