Don’t let them scroll away from your video! If you want to grow your brand, attract more clients for your services, or sell more products OR you’re in a corporate job and you want to stand out as a thought leader, Kim Rittberg has some tips for you to make more engaging social media content! Specifically - how to make your videos more engaging, make people watch them more, have your ideal clients see your video and say YES! In this quick bite-sized bonus solo episode you will learn: 3 tips to ma...
Apr 14, 2023•7 min
Real Housewife of Orange County, entrepreneur and mom of 4 Heather Dubrow discusses the years she was depressed, the craziest time filming the show, what she doesn't show on tv, her weirdest job and so much more. She also gets very open about parenting and what it's like to take her oldest off to college. Plus Kim shares what happened after the podcast with Heather that left her scrambling and cursing technology! LINKS: -Join Kim’s Video Boot camp: Click Here -Listen to Let’s Talk with Heather D...
Apr 12, 2023•46 min
You have 2 seconds to win someone over on social media for your business. How do you do that? With an amazing headline and hook. I teach business owners and professionals how to grow their incomes, leads & credibility with video and podcasts and how to be better on camera. I’ve won award for my video work, I launched Us Weekly’s video unit, was a TV news producer for a decade and was a video marketing executive at Netflix & PopSugar. In this special mini solo episode, I discuss: How you ...
Apr 07, 2023•7 min
Jacqueline Lotzof and Stephanie Malk are moms and partners leading a Compass team that covers Chicago to the North Shore. They help clients buy, sell, rent, invest, and they refer top agents throughout the country via the Compass Referral Network. You'll hear about how they met, what they say is the key to their success, their tips for standing out in a saturated industry, and how they balance it all… or don't. Thank you to our sponsor College Ave Student Loans. They know that paying for college...
Apr 05, 2023•34 min
It took me years to start showing up on camera to market myself and my business–despite being a media executive, having been a TV news producer for a decade, launching Us Weekly’s video unit, working in video marketing at Netflix & PopSugar. Why? The same reasons as you: self-consciousness, fear of judgment, fear of failure. But once I focused on breaking through the negativity and fear, I’ve since skyrocketed my business: quadrupled my inbound leads, tripled my speaking engagements, and cre...
Mar 31, 2023•9 min
Mara Smith is the founder of Inspiro Tequila after years of being home with her kids and her inspiration struck because she was looking for a gluten-free clean drink that fit into her healthier lifestyle. When she couldn't find the perfect one, she decided to create it. Inspiro Tequila is women-owned with a female distiller, certified WBENC brand and made with the female consumer in mind. Chicago-based Mara has twins that are sophomores in college and a 10 year old and she believes that women ca...
Mar 29, 2023•36 min
Leah Neaderthal is the founder of Smart Gets Paid and a sales coach for women consultants, teaching women how to get more of the right kinds of clients and get paid more for every consulting contract. She’s also the host of The Smart Gets Paid podcast. You will learn: -Leah’s biggest tips to help women find clients & make more money -Why you should price for value not time -How Leah took a job despite knowing she didn’t want it -Why developing grit has been key to her success -How she balanc...
Mar 22, 2023•38 min
Jamila Souffrant was a real estate asset manager and aimed to retire at 40. She started her own journey to financial independence and she and her husband saved $169,000 in two years and are debt free besides their mortgage. Jamila began blogging and podcasting and her 'plan' completely changed and she quit her job to focus on her Journey To Launch podcast which has millions of downloads and was featured in the NYTimes. And her new goal is 'financial freedom' and she says "You don't have to wait ...
Mar 15, 2023•38 min
Paula Faris is an Emmy award-winning journalist and author who helps moms ditch the guilt and find a better way forward. She shares how after advocating for herself at work so she could be there more for her children, she was pushed out of her job and had an identity crisis. Paula’s new book is You Don't Have to Carry It All: Ditch the Mom Guilt and Find a Better Way Forward and she is also the founder of CARRY Media which provides free resources and content for working moms. She believes that w...
Mar 08, 2023•42 min
Mirra Levitt & Basha Rubin met at Yale Law, and after Mirra left her big law firm job, they founded Priori Legal. Its global legal marketplace helps hundreds of in-house teams find the right legal provider for their next project. They’ve raised over $21 million dollars in three rounds of funding and pull back the curtain on fundraising. They’ve got stories to tell: an investor calling it a ‘lifestyle business,’ getting turned down numerous times and the struggles to fit yourself into a box… ...
Mar 01, 2023•40 min
Robin Arzón–Peloton Head Instructor & VP of Fitness Programming–explains why balance is a ‘harmful concept,’ offers advice for women looking to achieve her level of success and shares a funny parenting moment (it may have happened to you too and will crack you up!), plus she discusses her new book Strong Baby. Then host Kim Rittberg leans into her 15 years in journalism (Netflix, Fox, PEOPLE Mag) to share 3 simple tips for you to attract clients on social media for your business using the 3 ...
Feb 22, 2023•29 min
QVC host & 7-figure entrepreneur Kim Gravel on how she felt ‘depressed’ when she realized she wasn’t pursuing her passion. She was working in real estate but yearned to be on a stage and she had an epiphany during the 5 years she spent as a stay-at-home mom. Hear how she went from flailing to flying, and has tips for all of us to find our passion–and build our career on top of that. Plus she shares thoughts on how to be more confident from her new book. Kim Gravel also basically cracked open...
Feb 13, 2023•42 min
Katherine Goldstein is a journalist who writes on mothers, caregivers and gender equity for The NYTimes, TIME, WashPost, Vox and more… while also raising 3 kids (including pandemic twins!). Hear why Katherine is ready to banish the phrase “working mom” and how her return to journalism after a difficult postpartum experience fueled her next career stage. PLUS Katherine is telling us about what it was like going into the podcast business totally cold and what her biggest struggles were when figuri...
Feb 08, 2023•41 min
Laurel Gallucci was a teacher but also a lifelong baker. When she was diagnosed with an aggressive autoimmune disease and told she would never eat chocolate cake again, she decided to do something about it instead of just sitting back and accepting it. Hear how Laurel took her life back when she started baking with whole food ingredients and how she turned that passion into a business, Sweet Laurel Bakery, and sells to stores nationwide. Laurel also shares her top business and marketing lessons ...
Feb 01, 2023•31 min
Megan Harper went from corporate finance to bartending to where she is now: President of Community at Authentic—a marketing agency for “small businesses with a soul.” Hear how Megan’s experience as a young mom in NYC helped her become an 'accidental influencer' where she grew @girlgonechild_ Instagram presence to over 19k followers (HINT: show the mess - it’s pretty boring if your IG is all sunshine and rainbows!) AND how she turned her social expertise into full time job opportunities. PLUS: Le...
Jan 25, 2023•37 min
Want to get publicity for your small business? Award-winning Video Strategist Kim Rittberg and Sabina Hitchen, the Founder of Press for Success offer tips to small business owners and professionals looking for press coverage on TV and digital outlets. Kim applies her experience as a News & Lifestyle TV producer for 10 years (who received thousands of pitches and booked guests on the shows) and Sabina ran a PR agency for many years and has helped business owners earn national and local press....
Jan 20, 2023•29 min
Want to use LinkedIn to get clients? Flynanced Founder Cinneah El-Amin show you how to optimize your LinkedIn profile, get seen by your ideal client and how to find paid speaking gigs off LinkedIn. Plus Frenchie Ferenczi, who worked at The Wing & Jet Black, has her top strategy and growth tips for mom business owners, whether you’re working 20 or 50 hours a week. We dive into whether we’re even asking the right questions to get us to the next level and how to break through our own ceilings a...
Jan 18, 2023•44 min
Emily Oster is here - economics professor at Brown, 3x best selling author who debunks all your parenting myths with DATA!!! She wrote Expecting Better, Cribsheet and The Family Firm. We talk about how you can worry less about your parenting decisions, how moms can think about deciding their career path to find better balance and that even though working makes people happy and parenting makes people happy - we’re not twice as happy when we do both! So Emily is here to help us find the path that’...
Jan 11, 2023•46 min
Stacy Tuschl grew her own dance studio business in Wisconsin and now is a 7-figure business owner and founded Well-Oiled Operations. Stacy teaches people how to scale their business, when you should diversify, what tools she recommends using, how to delegate well… and why you shouldn’t try to wear multiple hats at the same time! Bonus: she says she doesn’t work nights or weekends…that’s aspirational! Kim shares the awful parenting moment in a store when she realized she would NEVER multitask wit...
Jan 04, 2023•40 min
If you’re struggling with measly % increases in your paycheck, listen up! Cinneah El-Amin runs Flynanced, a community for women to get paid our worth in the workplace. Cinneah brings advice on how to boost your salary -- up to 30%– and has scripts to ask in interviews and even initial phone screens to maximize your salary. Plus she helps you identify skills you already have and how to market them to earn the money you deserve! (yes!) Kim gives herself a ‘yearly review’ on her last year’s resolut...
Dec 28, 2022•35 min
This week our inspirational mom guest is…drumroll please…our host - Kim Rittberg! Special bonus she's also bringing 15 years of her media experience to teach you professionals & business owners video strategy and on-camera tips. Kim spent 15 years climbing the ladder in TV and digital media; she was an ambitious mom leading a 17-person digital video team at Us Weekly Magazine after 15 years in TV news, Netflix & PopSugar. Her work-life epiphany struck while shifting uncomfortably in a ho...
Dec 21, 2022•22 min
"Why did we go through this adoption process? Why did emotionally, financially, why did we do this if I'm only gonna see my kids on the weekend?" Ever have the feeling that you’re a full time employee but only a part time parent? You’re not alone! Scout Masterson and Bill Horn, AKA "The Guncles" to Tori Spelling, felt that way. After they adopted their daughter, they realized just how little time they would be spending with her—so they quit their high-stress Hollywood jobs and went to work for t...
Dec 14, 2022•28 min
Burnout - how do you handle it? What does it force you to confront? Parenting editor Bethany Braun Silva breaks down her career path, how she (and Kim!) learned to say no more at work, and how burnout brought Bethany to a career turning point. Then health & wellness coach Jennifer Khalaf offers tips on how to identify and extinguish burnout. Plus you’ll hear what happens when Kim played soccer against college athletes in a ‘parents vs refs’ rec league game to set a good example for her kids....
Dec 07, 2022•44 min
Job hunters, listen up! Career Coach Becca Carnahan brings her 14 years of experience in career and professional development at Harvard Business School to help you find jobs that are truly flexible (from scratch, not just scaling down your existing job from full-time to part-time), she offers specific websites you should visit, how to get a great job after you’ve taken a career break, and how to figure out your next career move. Plus don’t worry about awkward networking events in drab conference...
Nov 30, 2022•36 min
Heather Monahan is a best selling author, a keynote speaker and has an amazing story of being fired from when she was a C-suite executive in radio and how she came back. Heather helps you figure out how to overcome your fears and take action to get where you want in life, discusses how she balances the travel of a lucrative speaking career with parenting her teenager as a single mom. Plus whether you’re avoidant or confrontational, she has tips on how to deal with a toxic work environment. Plus ...
Nov 23, 2022•42 min
Mother of four Zibby Owens always wanted to be a writer and during her years as a stay-at-home mother of 4 felt “nothing was firing her up.” Zibby details her path to finding her calling after her divorce, how she got her ‘sparkle’ back, and how she launched the award-winning daily podcast Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books where she interviews authors. Zibby’s been called the Oprah of Books and NYC’s “most powerful book-fluencer.” With that success she launched Zibby Media which includes a publ...
Nov 16, 2022•39 min
When you hear the phrase “job share,” what comes to mind? Whatever it is, it’s probably nowhere near as literal as the idea account execs Krista Kezman and Sally Agger pitched to their employers at audio company Audacy. They’re breaking down the nitty-gritty of their 3 day work weeks for me and what led them to seek the arrangement to begin with. Learn why Wisconsin-based Krista and Sally describe their arrangement as “two minds for the price of one,” how it’s a complete game-changer for materni...
Nov 09, 2022•32 min
Lisa Chu and her husband Coltrane started their company, Team Epiphany, at a conference table with one phone and a single ethernet cord... And their main goal was to get out of NYC and down to Miami to party through the winter! Today, they count themselves as the original influencer marketing agency with clients like Absolut, Nike, and HBO. Find out how Lisa learned quickly to deal with misogyny in the corporate realm (including one CFO who refused to speak to her!), why working outside the hous...
Nov 02, 2022•39 min
Melissa Urban explains how she took her Whole30 detox diet from side hustle during her insurance job to national phenomenon and became a NYT bestselling author…though she initially “had no desire to be an entrepreneur.” She has great scripts to help us create boundaries like how to say ‘no’ more often and how to politely decline whether it’s networking, extra duties at work or volunteering or well-intentioned family members who drop by unannounced (what!?)We love her perspective and advice – how...
Oct 26, 2022•53 min
What’s the future of remote work? Do flex jobs exist? Does ambition matter anymore? Is quiet quitting really a thing? Kate Davis, Deputy Editor of Fast Company and the host of The New Way We Work podcast joins us! She answers our burning questions about today’s workplaces, what careers can look like. Plus she shares a sneak peek and her learnings from her deeply reported miniseries The Ambition Diaries which interviews 7 pairs of mother and daughters across a variety of topics like Leaning In &a...
Oct 19, 2022•46 min
