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The Heart & Hustle Podcast

Evie McLeod & Lindsey Romantheheartandhustlepodcast.com
A business and lifestyle podcast for creative entrepreneurs, dreamers, and doers who want to make the most out of their life. Consider us your newest BFF's who are in your corner (and your ear buds!) giving you practical tools to use in your business and life, while empowering you with some spit fire truths that will ignite you to go get it. Each Tuesday & Thursday's, Evie & Lindsey bring you tangible and actionable tips to up level your business and life while giving you some laughs and encouraging you to chase after your God given dreams. We believe you have ONE life to live, and YOU get to choose how you want to live it. Ya ready to run your business like a rockstar and own who you were made to be? Perf. Chat with you there!

Episodes

260: How to Market with Conviction - Stop hopping on Trends That Don’t Align with YOUR Brand with Kelly Roach

Now today’s episode is MEATY. You’ll probably want to repeat this episode twice or more because our guest today drops so much fire it’s not even funny. Today we had Kelly Roach on the show for the second time. We first welcomed Kelly to the heart and hustle podcast on Episode 121 , and today she’s back for moorreeee marketing wisdom and goodness. Today we talked to Kelly ALL about Conviction Marketing and how to stay aligned with your business and marketing voice. So what does that mean? Well… r...

Jul 07, 202246 min

259: You Aren’t Behind. Listen to This if You Feel Like it's Too Late to Accomplish Your Dreams.

Do you ever feel behind? Like you’re already past the age you should have had it “all” together and feel like a failure? Do you feel like if you didn’t start a successful company when you were like 21 you’ve failed in life? Or GOSHHH dangit if you haven’t hit Forbes 30 Under 30 you might as well up and quit and get a “normal job” working in corporate. Just because your story might not look the exact same as ours does not mean you have failed in life. And today’s podcast episode is literally ALLL...

Jul 05, 202225 min

258: Creating Strategic Collaborations and Partnerships to Scale Your Business with Danielle Wiebe

Today we’re chatting with the brilliant and sweet Danielle Wiebe all about how to strategically collaborate and partner with other entrepreneurs and businesses to scale your business. Danielle talked ALLLLL about building relationships, collaborations, and partnerships as one of the most powerful tools you can use to accelerate and scale your business. We went deep into what collaborations and partnerships are, how to format a pitch email, and how to get noticed by the person or brand you’re try...

Jun 30, 202247 min

257: Conference Q&A: Business Tips & Advice, Burnout, and the Most Difficult Season Lessons.

Back in April during the Heart Conference, we did something a little extra fun to give our attendees (aka YOU) a chance to be on this show. We had our podcast audio engineer, Hayden, set up a little mini podcast studio for our attendees to join a few podcast episodes with us. So we had them ask us some questions that we’d answer on a future show …AKA THIS EPISODE! You asked us questions ranging from, “what would we tell a multi-passionate entrepreneur who is dealing with burnout?”, “our #1 piece...

Jun 28, 202238 min

256: Photography Q&A: Destination Work, Editing, Styled Shoots & Client Workflow with Cassidy Lynne

Today’s episode is for all our photographers out there!! Today we have the incredible Cassidy Lynne on the show chatting about ALL things photography. We polled YOU - our podcast listeners - in our Heart & Hustle Facebook group to get these questions for Cassidy and you DELIVERED THE GOODS!! Cassidy answered questions like: how do you brand your photography business to stand out from the competition? And How do you break into the destination photography industry? As well as how to set up a s...

Jun 23, 202258 min

255: We Didn’t Touch Our Phones or Social Media for a Month. Here’s What Happened with Lindsey and Andrew Roman

Lindsey and her husband, Andrew Roman are taking over the podcast today to chat about something that was quite literally life-changing that we did last month for the month of May. We took a work sabbatical for a month where I took off work from The Heart University, we cut out social media entirely, and legit hardly touched our phones AT ALL all month. It was absolutely life-changing and incredible for our family as a whole. We did a LOT of other intentional things during our sabbatical that we’...

Jun 21, 20221 hr 12 min

254: Ready to Quit Your Day Job? Here's How to Find the Courage to Live a Life that You Love with Cathy Heller

Today’s guest is the beautiful and incredible powerhouse, Cathy Heller. Today we sat down for a conversation with Cathy all about finding the courage to live a life that you LOVE. So many people in this world are working in jobs they hate, living lives they don’t like, and operating out of fear of other people’s opinions. In this episode, Cathy is about to bust through this conversation with so much encouragement and tangible tools to help you with your mindset around who you are, what you were ...

Jun 16, 202252 min

253: Need Some Client Gift Ideas? Listen Now.

We’re talking all about client gifting. That constantly mentioned and yet the slightly confusing area of business where you’re left to wonder, “wait do I just give a gift card or am I supposed to spend 500 hours hand-knitting a blanket from wool I got myself in New Zealand?”. Let’s be real. It can be a little confusing and overwhelming to figure out what the best game plan is here. HENCE THIS EPISODE!! Today we’re gonna break it down for you. We’re covering why gifting is important to your clien...

Jun 14, 202224 min

252: Wanna Break Into the Destination Elopement Industry? Here’s How with Sydney Kuhne.

If you are wanting to get into the destination elopement industry, today is a treat for you! Today’s podcast guest is a past long-term coaching student of Evie, Sydney Kuhne of Wildly In Love. Today with Sydney we break down the myths around the destination wedding + elopement industry. Sydney also shares the behind the scenes of her process of location scouting in locations you don’t live in, and how to scout virtually ahead of time as well as in-person before the session or elopement. (Tons of...

Jun 09, 20221 hr

251: Organization Software & Structures - What we Use Daily in Our Businesses

In today’s episode we’re breaking down every single software or system we use in all of our businesses to communicate with clients or team members, organize our tasks, projects, dreams, and business plans, and share files with others. It’s a power punch of an episode that will help you if you’re feeling overwhelmed and swamped by your business and are struggling with knowing HOW to actually get organized, streamline all the tasks happening within your brain, and you want to know what we do! Read...

Jun 07, 202225 min

250: How to Clear Your Skin: Acne Advice from the Acne Guru Danielle Gronich & Kayleigh Christina

This episode is going to pivot away from business a bit and dive more into the lifestyle side of the podcast that we love to cover here and there. Let’s be real, if your business is running great but your life and body are falling apart, there’s a problem! Well we’re about to get really personal and specific in this episode and hopefully help a LOT of people today because we’re talking about the dreaded curse most of us have dealt with or are still dealing with- acne. Our guests today are founde...

Jun 02, 202247 min

249: Girl Chat: Some of Our Recent Instagram Struggles

Welcome to the show where we combine heart-felt girl chats with hardcore business and marketing strategies to help cultivate your life and business. Today’s episode is a super fun one. We did an episode a while back ( Episode 197 if you haven’t listened to it yet) where we just came to the mic completely unscripted, vulnerable, and had an honest girl chat between us on the pressures of being online in this day and age, comparison, feeling the pressure to either be overly vulnerable online or ove...

May 31, 202243 min

248: How to Pioneer a New Niche, that's Never Been Done Before with KT Howie

We are welcoming one of our team members onto the show today - the lovely and incredible KT Howie. KT was on the show before on Episode 173 where we chatted with her about her internship with Lindsey and The Heart. So if you haven’t got an introduction into who this girl is, listen to that episode and then come back here because today we are chatting with KT all about her journey with doing a particular niche of photography that is NOT common at all - photographing the elderly. Today we talked a...

May 26, 202248 min

247: 10 Things We Wish We Knew Before Becoming Entrepreneurs

Calling all entrepreneurs and/or humans who have ever dreamed of becoming a business owner or entrepreneur someday! If you’ve ever felt like “Man, I just wish someone would hand me a cheat sheet to the things I should learn or keep in mind on this journey…”. Well… the cheat sheet has arrived. Today we’re sharing lessons we’ve learned from our years in business. Some of these we’ve learned the hard way (YIKES) and others, by the grace and goodness of God, He has led us to discover the easy way at...

May 24, 202246 min

246: Entrepreneurship: Knowing When to Pivot, Pause, and Push with Kacia Fitzgerald

If you are an entrepreneur (that includes wanna-be-entrepreneurs still on your journey of starting your own business) LISTEN. TO. THIS. EPISODE. Today we got to talk with the incredible Kacia Fitzgerald. If you aren’t familiar with her, Kacia is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, speaker, podcaster, and CEO who's on a mission to help women unapologetically share their voice & message with the world. Our chat with Kacia today is JAM-PACKED with mic-drop moments. We were having to bite our tongu...

May 19, 202258 min

245: On the Instagram Caption Struggle Bus? Overcoming Writer’s Block on Social Media.

Now today we are chatting about something a LOT of us struggle with DAILY: what the HECK to say on Instagram. We get asked this question SO SO SO much. “I have no idea what to even say on Instagram?” “What topics are my audience even wanting from me?” “I don’t know how to write a compelling caption?” “What do I even post about?” If you’ve thought ANY of those thoughts regarding Instagram or creating & writing content for your business in general, then keep on listening to this episode, frien...

May 17, 202232 min

244: Your Skincare Routine Could Be Ruining Your Body with Primally Pure Founder Bethany McDaniel

Have you ever struggled with your skincare routine or even lifestyle as a whole when it comes to the whole “healthy” or “clean living” world?? Let’s face it, “clean living” can feel overwhelming at times. There’s a lot of information out there and sometimes it can feel like a DRAMATIC life change that feels daunting. If you’re feeling that way, or even if you’ve ever been curious about clean skincare and adopting a healthier lifestyle… you’re in the right place for today’s earbud treat! Today we...

May 12, 202237 min

243: 5 Tips to Start Utilizing Pinterest Marketing

Today we’re chatting about a topic we’ve NEVER touched on this show before. YES. We are over 200 episodes in and we’re finally touching on a topic that you’ve asked us time and time again to talk about. The topic? Pinterest marketing. Now Pinterest is a marketing tool we think a lot of entrepreneurs under-utilize or chalk up to a simple “Oh I’ll do that someday…” attitude. However, when done right, Pinterest can be an incredible way to get free leads to your business. So today we’re chatting ALL...

May 10, 202229 min

242: Live Coaching Call: How to Attract & Book Your Ideal Clients on Instagram with Annie Shannon

Today is another coaching call episode where we sat down with one of our students from our course The Instagram Major and coached her on all things Instagram. And you get a li’l front-row seat in on our conversation. Today we chatted with Dallas-based intimate wedding photographer Annie Shannon, the sweetest human on the planet, about her Instagram. In today’s episode, we go over her Instagram feed, giving her tips on the disconnect she said she’s feeling with booking potential clients from Inst...

May 05, 20221 hr 7 min

241: 5 Ways to Up Level Your Instagram Reels to Explode Your Marketing

Today’s episode is for all our party people listening who are begrudgingly DREADING hopping on the Instagram Reels train. If you’ve been dragging your feet every since Adam Moserii the head of Instagram made the announcement last year that Instagram is no longer just a photo-sharing app and that Instagram WILL be pushing reels more, this episode is going to give you SO many practical, tangible strategies and tools you can use to start creating Reels TODAY. We sat down with our industry friend an...

May 03, 20221 hr 17 min

240: Feel Unqualified & Alone? Building a Purposeful Life & Business with Ben Higgins

If you would have told 2016 Lindsey she would be speaking to today’s guest on her podcast…she would not have believed you. Today we welcome Ben Higgins onto the show. Her bachelor fangirl self is screaming right now. Today our conversation with Ben covers so many incredible things. Have you ever felt like you’re on the outside of an inside joke everyone else is in on? Have you ever wanted to do something important for the world, but don’t know where or how to start?? In our conversation with Ben...

Apr 28, 202250 min

239: Personal Q&A: Biggest Work Fight, How We Met Our Husbands and More Tea!

Today we’re diving into a more personal side of the show, and answering the questions you submitted to both of us on our Instagrams. We got some juicy goodness coming up on today’s episode. We answer everything from what’s been our biggest work fight, who’d play us in a movie, if we ever will add team members to the heart team, to how we met our husbands, and even went into personal individual questions and answered things like how Evie does her Bible time, how Lindsey manages being a work from ...

Apr 26, 202256 min

238: Change this One thing in Your Marketing and your Business Will Explode: Building a Storybrand with Donald Miller

If you’re a business owner wanting to uplevel your marketing in ANY way, YOU HAVE GOT TO LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE. Because today’s guest is none other than The Heart Conference’s keynote speaker…. DONALD MILLER. Today we talked about one of our favorite books of his: Building a Storybrand. It’s one of the most powerful business marketing books we’ve ever read and is on our annual repeat-read lists. In this episode, Don shares the biggest mistakes small business owners make in their marketing and t...

Apr 21, 202239 min

237: 8 Different Types of Income Streams and How to Build Passive Revenue with Zim Flores

We talk a LOT on this show about marketing and business, particularly coming from our experience with personal branding and running businesses with your face attached to the front. A lot of you can relate to the fact that when your business requires YOU to get out of your bed, show up, and physically make your business profitable, it can be SO exhausting. HOWEVER, there is a WORLD of business types out there, and not every company has to operate that way. It’s WISE to have multiple types of inco...

Apr 19, 202248 min

236: What To Do When You Don’t Reach Your Goals & the Pressures of Girl Boss Culture with Jordan Lee Dooley

If you’ve ever felt like something doesn’t sit quite right with you when it comes to the whole “girl boss culture” that’s been sweeping the world for a few years, OR if you’re feeling frustrated or discouraged with unmet expectations, this episode is about to be a BLAST of truth and fresh air for your soul today. If you aren’t already familiar with one of our best friends, you’re about to fall in love with your new soul sister, Jordan Lee Dooley. Today we talked with Jordan about how to handle d...

Apr 14, 20221 hr

235: Are You a Photographer Wanting to Pivot Into Education? Listen to This.

If you’re a photographer and you’ve had your eye on education as a way to grow and scale your business then HELLOOOO. Welcome. You’ve come to the right place. Today we’re going to talk a bit about pivoting into education as a photographer. We cover how to know if it’s the right step for you, what myths we believe exist in the industry, and the first steps to keep in mind to scale your business. It’s a bit of a hard-hitting episode as we break down some industry myths around the topic. So if you’...

Apr 12, 202235 min

234: How to Deal with Imposter Syndrome & the Pressures to be Perfect

This recording is from an interview that we did on Mary Marantz’s podcast a few months ago. It was SUCH a powerful conversation that we wanted to make sure YOU, our listeners, got to join the conversation as well. If you’ve ever struggled with imposter syndrome, how to run a business through a biblical worldview, or how to avoid falling into the trap of becoming paralyzed by fear, if ANY of that sounds like something you’d like to chat about, you’re in the right spot. In today’s conversation wit...

Apr 07, 20221 hr 9 min

233: Feeling Unmotivated? 3 Ways to Get Out of a Rut and Get Your Creative Fuel Back.

We’re alllll in this entrepreneur journey together!! Speaking of being in this together, if you haven’t noticed, there’s been a pandemic sweeping the world lately. And no, we’re not talking about good ole’ Miss Rona. We’re talking about the pandemic of fatigue, discouragement, and apathy that a LOT of us are feeling right now. If you clicked on this episode, there’s a strong chance that you’re feeling frustrated with your mojo right about now. Whether you’re feeling unfocused, apathetic, bored, ...

Apr 05, 202230 min

232: Ready is a Lie - Learning to Start BEFORE You Feel Qualified, Behind the Scenes of Launching The Heart Conference, and More with Angie Lee

We’re chatting with one of our fave gals around, Angie Lee. Now we’ve had Ang on the show before on Episode 093 to chat about how authenticity is your superpower and you guys LOVED that episode. AND Angie is one of our mainstage speakers for The Heart Conference coming up SO SO soon! Weeeelllll Angie is back today for a conversational girl chat about in-person events and getting over the fear of just going after your dreams. Today’s conversation covered the nitty-gritty, behind-the-scenes look a...

Mar 31, 202256 min

231: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

Are you feeling stuck?? Like you’ve reached a ceiling in your growth and you’re not quite sure how to bust through? Are you feeling burnt out? Are you feeling like you’ve reached a cap or a max level at everything you’re trying to do? This episode is for you if you’ve been STRUGGLING for a while now or are feeling discouraged or burnt out. You feel like you’ve done EVERYTHING under the sun in your business and you’re not seeing the results you want. This is for you if you feel like you’ve hit a ...

Mar 29, 202222 min
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