The Boss Mom Podcast

Episode 20: Igniting the #Boycotthehustle Movement with Lara McCulloch

Lara McCulloch is, in two words, a shift disturber. She’s on a mission to change women entrepreneurs from overworked and overwhelmed into free and fulfilled. This spark was lit in her early 20s when her addiction to the hustle first began. For ten long years, as a Brand Consultant for multinational corporations, she spent her days and nights sifting through knee deep piles of client briefs, hopping on and off of planes, forgetting to eat because she was too busy to feel hunger and multi-tasking ...

Episode 019: Strategic Marketing and Thinking Outside the Box With Emily Potts with host Dana Malstaff

Today's Boss Mom Podcast guest is the wonderful Emily Potts. Emily is super-passionate about helping mompreneurs achieve small business success without sacrificing what matters most. A wife and mother herself, Emily owns three small businesses, so she knows a thing or two about juggling work and family! She believes in unconditional love, laughing really hard, making space for what's important and spending time where it counts. Emily teaches other mompreneurs how to strategically market their bu...

Episode 018: The Power of Setting A Yearly Focus Word with Dana & NJ

How to pick a word of the year! Happy New Year! For this episode of the Boss Mom Podcast, Dana and NJ are back with a bang and talking about their words of the year for 2016, why it's important to share hobbies with your kids and their current TV crushes. Let's dive right in! Listen to the podcast: Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. In this episode you'll hear: Dana and NJ talk about their word of the year. Why NJ has two words for the year (hint hint... she's got one for business and one for h...

EPISODE 017: Saying Goodbye to 2015 and 2 Pieces of Advice from Dana and NJ [PODCAST]

One of the funnest things that has come out of the Boss Mom brand since it's launch is the Boss Mom Podcast. I've really enjoyed getting to interview some of my favorite Boss Moms and I love podcasting with my co-host, NJ. NJ and I have a hoot together each time we talk. And when we're together on air, you really see the heart of the Boss Mom brand. We're passionate about motherhood and business, and in love with being intentional with our time so we have more of it to do what matters most to us...

Episode 016: Turning Your Passion Into A Product Based Business With Angelique Warr and Host Dana Malstaff

Angelique has enviable determination. While deciding to make her own favors for her bridal shower, she stumbled into a lucrative soap favor business that has been featured on countless party blogs, in news articles, and on party theme inspiration sites. Angelique’s robust Etsy shop delivers thousands of soap favors a month bringing happiness to kids and adults while making every event that much more special with favors that guest can actually use. While raising their daughter and managing a thri...

EPISODE 015: Elf on the Shelf, Writing, and ...with Jen Mann & host Dana Malstaff

In this episode you'll hear: The birth of Jen's blog. Jen's viral blog post story, how she capitalized the traffic and converted over 700,000 fans. The large role Jen's husband played in the process of developing her blog and sustaining her writing. How and why Jen protects her children's identity online. Jen's biggest challenges in motherhood and running her business. The lens that Jen filters her business through - especially as technology and trends change. The constants in Jen's business and...

Episode 014: Gratitude, Thanksgiving, and Board Games With Dana & NJ [Podcast]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! In this episode of the Boss Mom podcast, Dana and NJ are back together again and chatting about gratitude and their Thanksgiving plans. As always, there are a few great laughs and awesome nuggets of wisdom you don't want to miss. This episode does not feature our typical full show note style because well, it's Thanksgiving and I believe in the power of being with family and rest. Let's dive right in. Listen to the Boss Mom Podcast. Subscribe to the Boss Mom Podcast i...

Episode 013: The Boss Mom Book Launch (an interview with the Author) with Dana & NJ

I'm popping the champagne and blowing horns because my book baby, Boss Mom: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Business & Nurturing Your Family Like a Pro, is finally here! Today is the official launch and I couldn't be more excited. In this episode of the Boss Mom podcast, NJ and I answer everything you want to know about my book- from who I wrote for to what it was really like writing with a newborn and everything else in between. Let's dive right in. * Affiliate links present in this post.* ...

Episode 012: Go From Trappeed to Transformed with Keturah Gordon and Host Dana Malstaff

Keturah Gordon is a life-coach, blogger and seminar leader who helps people who feel ‘stuck’ and exhausted to find the confidence to live the life they’ve always dreamed about. Keturah uses the word ‘Trapped’ to describe how she used to feel but now, as a Boss Mom, her life is truly transformed. Her business is aptly named Trapped to Transformed. After going through an unhappy marriage, a messy divorce, battling depression and experiencing the trauma of losing her hair due to stress, all alongsi...

Episode 011: Seasons of Business, Jazz Hands, and Pop Culture 101 with Dana & NJ

Welcome to the Boss Mom podcast! Today Dana and NJ are bringing you 30 jam packed minutes about business and life- this episode is full of pop culture references and they couldn't stop laughing. We hope you have as much fun listening as we did recording. Let's dive right in. Listen to the podcast: Subscribe to the Boss Mom podcast on iTunes . In this episode we talk about: East Cost vs West Coast jazz hands Why NJ doesn't understand the current lingo What NJ has to say about 50 Shades of Grey Wh...

Episode 010: The Importance of Creativity & Motherhood with Bev Feldman & Dana Malstaff

Bev Feldman is creative entrepreneur and a stay-at-home mom to one very adorable (and energetic) toddler. When she's not chasing after her daughter at playgrounds and storytimes, she can be found managing her jewelry business and blogging about creativity, motherhood, and all things handmade at Linkouture: Musings on the Creative Side of Life. Bev and Dana talk in this episode about finding creativity and why it is important for moms to carve out space for themselves. They also chat about someth...

EPISODE 009: How to Grow Your Business and Find Your 'WHY' Through Intention Setting with Rach Wheatley & Dana Malstaff

Rach Wheatley is business consultant and coach, speaker and blogger. She’s a proud mum and wife who juggles day care drop offs, collecting pretty things and getting sweaty via a range of fun/crazy fitness adventures. She thrives on hearing women’s stories and helping them create a new story for their future that it meaningful, peaceful and happy. Project: Breathe is home to her blog, consultation, workshops and shop, all of which are designed lovingly to help women go from ‘pie in the sky’ dream...

EPISODE 008: How to Protect What You Love: Business, Contacts, Copyright, and Family with Autumn Boyd & host Dana Malstaff

Autumn Witt Boyd is a lawyer who helps creative entrepreneurs who grow their business. She helps her clients develop air tight custom contracts that you can actually understand and protect the business they’ve worked so hard to build. She’s got over 11 years of experience as a business lawyer and has experience protecting intellectual property through copyrights and trademarks. When she isn’t working, she enjoys spending time outdoors with her twin sons (who are 4) and her husband. We are really...

EPISODE 007: Finding And Living With Passion With Kelsey Murphy

We are so excited about today's podcast guest, Kelsey Murphy. Kelsey is a certified Career & Life Coach, and the founder of Whiskey & Work, a global community of women created to inform and inspire while injecting a little bit of purpose, adventure and humor along the way. Previous Advertising Director for Nintendo and Elizabeth Arden, turned career coach and personal development workshop facilitator - Kelsey specializes in career transition, relationship communication, conflict resoluti...

EPISODE 006: The Value Of A Family Mission Plan with NJ Rongner

This episode of the Boss Mom Podcast features NJ Rongner. NJ is part of the Boss Mom team and also works as a blogger and freelance writer. She's super intentional about carving out family time and making her minutes matter. In this episode you'll hear: The reason why NJ made a family mission statement and how she uses it. How NJ's family mission statement convicts her everyday and helps her become a better mom. Why Dana doesn't keep her work email on her phone. Why saying no really means saying...

EPISODE 005: 7 Must Have 'Tools' to Run Your Business, and a few Bonuses with Host Dana Malstaff

EPISODE 004: The 1 Thing We Do With Our Kids That We Should Be Doing In Our Business

How to manage decision fatigue as a mom

Hey there passionate moms and passionate entrepreneurs. Welcome to Episode 3 of the Boss Mom podcast. I don't know about you, but I get exhausted with all of the decisions I have to make each day between my business and my family; sometimes it can be overwhelming. Over the years I have discovered a few things that can help battle what I like to call decision fatigue, and I wanted to share them with you in today's episode. Listen to the audio... [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/...

Episode 002: 4 Things I do Just for Me that Help Me Be a Better Mom & Entrepreneur

Hey there Boss Moms and passionate entrepreneurs. Welcome to Episode 2 of the Boss Mom podcast. I'm really excited to talk about this topic today, because I don't think it gets talked about it enough, and I don't think we give to ourselves enough as mothers and as business owners. In EPISODE 1 we talked with Adria DeCorte about how to make healthy eating part of our hustle, so going along with the same idea that we should take care of ourselves, I wanted to share four things that I do just for m...

EPISODE 001: How to Fuel Your Greatest Asset with Adria DeCorte & Host Dana Malstaff

What if you could look amazing, feel amazing, help your kids eat better, and have more energy to run your business? Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, with Adria DeCorte’s simple techniques for the health driven female entrepreneur, it can be true for you. In this podcast, Adria tells us about how eating healthy can not only impact your weight and overall health, but your energy levels too. And wouldn’t we all like a little extra energy to get the daily work flow going stronger than ever? ...