As 2017 winds down, 2018 is just around the corner and here are 5 things I am doing before 2018 arrives to help kick off the new year and grow my business. Forgive Myself Get CLEAR on Who My Business Serves 3. Listen to Amy Porterfield’s episode 183 “How to Create Your Promotional Calendar” Identify What I'm Going to START doing and STOP Doing Research Where I Want to Invest and How in My Business In today's solocast I dive into each area and how it will set up 2018 for success. What are things ...
Dec 14, 2017•20 min
How do you allow success to flow to you? Do you start the day claiming positivity? Are you in control of your happiness? We get to hear Amanda's take on these questions today as the roles are flipped and she becomes the interviewee! On this episode, Amanda is interviewed by Catherine Grace O’Connell and Kathy Kaehler of LA Talk Radio’s, Cat & Kaehler. During their talk, she shares with listeners her entrepreneurial story, and the mental journey she went on along the way! As SDIHW listeners k...
Dec 11, 2017•57 min
In a need for a cloud accounting software that isn't overwhelming, simple and easy to use? have you tried Freshbooks? Because if not, you're missing out. Freshbooks is an accounting software with the freelance and service-based business in mind. Because of its friendly user design, you're able to customize invoices, draft, send, follow up, accept payment, track express, and work contracts all right in the portal. Try Freshbooks today by visiting www.Freshbooks.com/She and enter She Did It Her Wa...
Dec 07, 2017•38 min
When was the last time that you did something for yourself? Where you went against what society told you was right, and did what you knew in your heart was best for you? Today’s guest Lizzi Cutler, has made a business of helping people sort through those questions, and live the best life they can! Lizzi does so with various yoga, meditation, retreats, and an Energy Editing system that teaches clients to find themselves mentally, spiritually, and physically. She helps clients release old and nega...
Dec 04, 2017•30 min
How can you create a market catered to a niche audience? How do you begin to trust your choices and judgment as an entrepreneur? In what ways can you empower others with your brand? We cover all those topics and more, as we get to listen to Jessica Zweig of SimplyBe Agency’s “tribal gathering” in today’s episode. Female entrepreneurs across the Chicago-area gathered at the event to support each other, as well as establish and strengthen their networks. We got to chat with four incredible women a...
Nov 30, 2017•47 min
What is your edge on the competition as a new brand? Is it your story? Your passion? For Marisa Arredondo, the founder of Phace Bioactive, it’s both! Phace Bioactive is the first pH-optimized skin care line with mildly acidic products, designed to match the natural pH of the outer layer of our skin, which has an acidic protective barrier. This barrier seals in moisture, protects the elasticity of our skin, and also protects from bacteria that can cause pimples. Marisa always knew she would start...
Nov 27, 2017•44 min
Hi friends! Today's solocast I'm sharing my 5 key takeaways from "You Are a Badass at Making Money," with Jen Sincero. I've recently started to seek out content and information about the money mindset topic which leads me to pick up Jen Sincero’s "You Are A Badass at Making Money," book. If you haven’t read Jen’s other book, "You Are a Badass," or have listened to her interview on the podcast, you must do so asap. Click here to see the full episode. One thing that kept popping up for me througho...
Nov 23, 2017•26 min
Is your hobby the only thing that makes you feel like you? How do you transform that hobby into a successful business? We hear all about that with Abby Walker who is the CEO and worldwide distributor of Vivian Lou! Vivian Lou sells insoles for heels that help women wear them longer without the pain that we all know too well. Always loving heels herself, she immediately latched on to the product when she came across the company in early 2014. Vivian Lou offers two versions of the insoles, classic...
Nov 20, 2017•40 min
Is there an aspect of your life that you’re not satisfied with? Is it nutritional? Is it with your career? Is it an aspect within yourself? We introduce Pandora Paloma, creator of Rooted London, which helps with all of those questions! Pandora is a holistic nutritionist and a life coach, who specializes in self-love empowerment, and intuitive living and eating. Struggling with body image issues growing up, she dealt with eating disorders and rollercoaster diets that negatively affected her healt...
Nov 16, 2017•35 min
How do you develop a dream if no one ever told you to have one? Where did your drive originate? When did your calling come to you? We dive into Candy Nelson’s answers to those questions in today's episode! Candy is the founder of Volunteer CEO, a life coaching business, and a nonprofit organization, Animal Friends Sanctuary, along with several other businesses. Her non-profit rescues abandoned animals and give them a home, it also provides a safe place for kids who have been sexually and physica...
Nov 13, 2017•45 min
How do you come up with new content for your business? What steps will you have to take to get it off the ground? She Did it Her Way listeners, let’s welcome back Farissa Knox, the second guest on SDIHW two years ago! She is the founder of two businesses, RLM Media and WhatRUWearing. RLM Media is an advertising agency that does media planning and buying for clients across the country, while WhatRUWearing exemplifies her love for all things fashion and style. WRUW is a digital publishing house th...
Nov 09, 2017•44 min
If you’re starting podcast what equipment do you need? How do you set up your systems? How soon will you have to monetize it and how? Where and how do you start to build your audience? Today’s episode is set up a little different, and we get to listen in on Brandon T. Adams’ podcast with Amanda Boleyn as the guest! On Brandon’s podcast, Amanda shares her entrepreneurial story with four aspiring entrepreneurs: Christina, Rob, Mandy, and Nicole. For the most part, they have all recently quit their...
Nov 06, 2017•1 hr 24 min
How are you expanding your brand’s experience? How are you introducing your followers to exciting new worlds and adventures? Well, Resolute Boutique and Lifestyle gives you all of that along with unique, stylish, and cozy clothing! If you’ve been a She Did It Her Way listener for a while, that name may ring a bell. That’s because Resolute was the passion project of Cordova Pleasants, the star of our six-episode series earlier this year! The series gave us a behind-the-scenes look at her road to ...
Nov 02, 2017•53 min
Hello friends! Happy Monday! Here we are again :) In today's solocast I want to share the 5 reasons why I believe burn out can be a good thing. Now at first glance, you may be thinking, "How could burn out EVER be a good thing?!" Don't worry, I'm definitely not suggesting that you should strive for being burned out or stay being burned out for forever. I'm sharing how you can harness the experience of being burned out to make changes in your business long-term. Being burned out.... Helps you to ...
Oct 30, 2017•15 min
Hi beauties! On today's solocast I'm recapping She Did It Her Way Summit - What I learned, what it means for She Did It Her Way and next steps. I'm talking about what my original intention was for the event and WHY, what next steps are for She Did It Her Way and what I'll be doing differently for the next one. Enjoy! xo,
Oct 26, 2017•21 min
Are you tired of being the face of your business? Do you want a little less of the pressure off of you? Do you want to remain CEO of your company, maintain freedom and flexibility of your time? In today’s episode, we get to see how this can be done with Laura Roader, founder of Meet Edgar, an online program that shares and re-shares social media postings for online businesses. With only 10% of social media advertisements reaching followers on Facebook lately, Meet Edgar allows businesses to get ...
Oct 23, 2017•39 min
Where does the love for your business stem from? How has it brought joy to the lives of others? How can your services heal people and bring them together? For Kendra Peterson, food has always been an element of comfort and love in her life, and with her company Drizzle Kitchen, she aims to provide the same for everyone else. Drizzle Kitchen is a boutique, private chef business that provides healthy and clean, customized meals for families who have food allergies, or special dietary needs. Her cl...
Oct 19, 2017•51 min
How do you break into a career field that barely exists? What resources do you search for? Do you know where to search? Who to contact for guidance? Crosby Noricks has access to those answers! Crosby is the founder of PR Couture, which is the PR sourcebook for fashion and lifestyle communicators. With her business, she aims to support individuals, brands, and agencies with strategy building, job leads and finding business partners and collaborators. They also created the Bespoke Communications A...
Oct 16, 2017•51 min
How do you plan to take control of an industry with your business? What would building a foundation for that scale of a business look like? We get into all of that with today’s guest, Jen Spencer, founder of Authority-Life! Authority-Life is an omni-present brand building company with public relations experts in social media, content building, and video editing. Their goal is to help entrepreneurs share their messages across various channels, and find their target audience. Authority-Life starte...
Oct 12, 2017•30 min
How has your business bettered your lifestyle? Improved your mental and physical health? Or motivated you to put yourself, and your well-being first? For Lauren Benbassat a health scare prompted her and her husband to create Mele, which offers all-natural meal replacement smoothies loaded with ingredients like real fruits, nuts, vegetables, and whey protein. These ingredients are freeze-dried and crushed into a powder, and when you add water, you have a filling smoothie with all the benefits of ...
Oct 09, 2017•56 min
We get to hear all about this with Jenni Brown, who is the co-founder of Prim’d Marketing, along with Sophie Davis. Originally, Jenni did marketing for mid-size businesses in her early 20's, and ended up working for brands such as Samsung, Nabisco, and Pepsi. She was in love with the field of marketing and loved that she got to tap into her creative of side of writing, designing, and working on a team. However, she wasn’t in love with the practice of working so hard to make these huge brands mon...
Oct 05, 2017•36 min
Are you feeling overwhelmed by work or personal life? Do you look at your life and wish that it consisted of more? Do you know where to begin to find out what that could be? If so look no further than Arielle Loren, who owns a marketing agency that focuses on advancing female entrepreneurs in their careers and in their life, as well as growing their businesses through online campaigns and product launches. Right out of NYU she began working for marketing agencies and start-ups, but felt really u...
Oct 02, 2017•46 min
Hi Friends! This is the last episode in the 6 part series. The 10 things I’m about to share have really helped me in my business from a growth perspective whether it was my mindset, revenue and adding team members. Track Your Time Create a Resource Library State Your Revenue Sources Ask These 3 Questions in Your Business Set Goals Set Up An Ideal Week for Yourself Protect Your Calendar and Goals Take Advantage of Free Content Seek Mentorship Level Up Tune into the podcast to hear exactly how I d...
Sep 28, 2017•18 min
The biggest thing here is to remember that everyone’s journey is different. For some of you when you walk in and take THE leap you could have a sense of calm come over you, excitement and for others it may be something like “Oh my gawd. What did I just do?” and that is okay. Those feels are totally normal. One thing I have noticed is that the journey of an entrepreneur the first year in business is different from that of second year, third year and so on. If you can get through the first couple ...
Sep 25, 2017•25 min
In this podcast episode I’m going to cover what to do when you want to start a company and know exactly what you want to start and what to do when you want to start a company but have no clue or too many ideas that it becomes overwhelming and you shut down. Write down the list of ideas you have: Keep in mind what you're good at. If you're in a full-time job, what is it that you do well at and what do you enjoy doing This is a judgement FREE zone. Let your mind and creative process flow. Be patie...
Sep 21, 2017•29 min
Is your passion in life really what you should be building into a business? How would you go about figuring that out? Megan Minns, went all through that painful epiphany, and her business today offers project management services to higher level business owners. However, she spends most of her time helping new business owners develop productive systems to keep them organized and efficient. Her underlying passion and fulfillment in her work comes from helping people make their dreams into reality ...
Sep 18, 2017•59 min
Today's solocast is part 3 of a six part series in honor of She did It Her Way Summit and I'm sharing how to create flow and focus in your business. What is flow and how do you create focus? Finding flow is about managing your time, energy and attention which results in creating focus. If we can understand how to manage our time, energy and attention better we can produce better results in our business. Identify your big 3 for the day. What will move my business forward? Will this help me achiev...
Sep 14, 2017•33 min
On today's solocast, Part 2 of a 6 part series I am sharing the 5 things you must do before quitting your job. These 5 things I'm sharing is a compilation of my own experience along with many other women whom I've interviewed, coached and worked with. Do Your Research and Maximize Your Time Start attending events that are entrepreneurial focused to start surrounding yourself with like minded people and also to better understand what entrepreneurial life is like. Start asking questions to get you...
Sep 11, 2017•41 min
Ahhh friends! Today's episode is part ONE of a SIX part series leading up to the She Did It Her Way Summit. Over the six part series I'm going to take you through the following: The Journey to Quitting Your Job and Landing on Your Own Two Feet How to Create Flow and Focus in Your Business 5 Things You Must Do Before Quitting Your Job 10 Ways to Scale Your Business Faster in the Land Phase What to Expect When You Quit Your Job and Take the Leap What to Do When You Want to Start a Company But Don'...
Sep 07, 2017•39 min
How many times have you heard us and other entrepreneurs on this podcast rave about Jen Sincero'sbook, You Are a Badass? Isn't it about time you guys heard from her yourselves? Well today's the day She Did it Her Way listeners! We've gotten Jen, author of You Are a Badass and You Are a Badass at Making Money, on the podcast today! We are so jazzed, to quote Amanda, to share with you her journey towards becoming a successful author and a life coach! Jen's entrepreneurial story started when she wa...
Sep 04, 2017•40 min
