Welcome to episode 3 of a 4-part series, “Business Revamp: Crafting My Post-Maternity Leave Life” Wanna skip the life update? Go right to minute 20:34 for the strategy portion of the episode. In this episode, Meg dives into the topic of sales scripts that work and don't sound robotic, emphasizing the importance of asking powerful questions and addressing objections. Meg provides examples of ready-made replies for objections and how to tweak them for your specific business. Biz Resources →Get My ...
Mar 18, 2024•36 min•Season 1Ep. 343
Welcome to episode 2 of a 4-part series, “Business Revamp: Crafting My Post-Maternity Leave Life” Wanna skip the life update? Go right to minute 19:00 for the strategy portion of the episode. In this episode, Meg discusses the importance of having a content calendar to create content that connects and converts. She emphasizes the need to set goals for the quarter and break them down month by month. Meg also highlights the ups and downs of running a business and the importance of measuring and ad...
Mar 11, 2024•46 min•Season 1Ep. 342
Welcome to episode 1 of a 4-part series, “Business Revamp: Crafting My Post-Maternity Leave Life” Wanna skip the life update? Go right to minute 18:45 for the strategy portion of the episode. Having the right business model is the key to making money while simultaneously prioritizing your family and in this and the next three episodes Meg will be sharing what it’s like coming back to work after maternity leave as well as the strategies that she’s put in place to do so with as minimal work as pos...
Mar 04, 2024•52 min•Season 1Ep. 341
In this episode, Meg discusses the strategy of creating POV viral reels to attract the right clients. She emphasizes the importance of having a sales system in place and the need for lead generation. Meg provides an example of a successful POV viral reel and breaks down the essential elements that made it go viral. She introduces the 'Day in the Life' exercise to understand the emotions and actions of the target audience. Meg also explains how to incorporate coaching and positive actions into th...
Feb 26, 2024•23 min•Season 1Ep. 340
In this episode, Meg discusses the key elements of a perfect post that actually sells your offer. She emphasizes the importance of having a unique differentiator, using language and lingo that your ideal client understands, and including activation in your content. Meg provides examples and practical tips for implementing these elements in your posts, stories, emails, and podcasts. She also encourages consistent activation to attract clients and achieve success in your online business. Takeaways...
Feb 19, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 338
In this episode, Meg shares her experience in building a personal brand on social media and the importance of engagement. She discusses the growth and engagement on her Instagram and TikTok accounts and emphasizes the value of building trust before monetizing. Meg provides insights into creating engaging day in the life videos, storytelling reels, and simple videos with powerful thoughts. She encourages listeners to try these content strategies to attract new leads and increase sales. Takeaways ...
Feb 12, 2024•31 min•Season 1Ep. 336
In this episode, Meg reflects on the shifting identities we hold in different seasons of life. She shares her personal experiences and beliefs about the dangers of identifying too much with one aspect of ourselves. Meg emphasizes the importance of finding balance and embracing the seasons of hustle and rest. She discusses the challenges of prioritizing entrepreneurship and neglecting other identities, as well as the all-encompassing season of motherhood. Meg also opens up about struggling with p...
Feb 09, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 335
In this episode, Meg interviews Stacey Brass-Russell, a business and life transformation coach, about her upcoming summit, The Nail Your Niche Project. They discuss the importance of storytelling in mastering your message and turning your awesomeness into offers people can't wait to buy. They also explore the concept of niching down and going deeper with your ideal client avatar. The summit features a rockstar lineup of experts who will provide tangible strategies and applications for telling yo...
Feb 05, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 334
In this heart-to-heart episode, Meg shares the realities of her life as a twin mom and the challenges and joys of navigating newborn life. She provides an update on her business, including working with an ad company and making her first funnel sale. Meg discusses the importance of content strategy and driving organic traffic to her funnels. She also talks about planning launches and balancing work with maternity leave. Meg opens up about the exhaustion and difficulties of pumping, but emphasizes...
Feb 02, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 333
This awkward time interview is one you’ll wanna bookmark for your own sanity my friend! Because my girl Yasmine, of Coaches and Company BRINGS it, helping you learn (in less than 40 min) what you do and DON’T need in terms of legal protection. It’s SO important to be proactive when it comes to legal set up, but I know it can also be really overwhelming for new business owners. Yasmine breaks it down in such an applicable and understandable way for us common folk who do NOT *get* legal terminolog...
Jan 29, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 332
In this episode, Meg shares her experience as a new mom and the challenges of adjusting to life with twins. She discusses the reality of returning to work and the changes she is making to her business model. Meg emphasizes the importance of cherishing every moment with her babies and finding a balance between work and personal life. She also shares her future plans for the business and the lessons she has learned about prioritizing being a mom. Takeaways Adjusting to life as a new mom can be cha...
Jan 26, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 331
(STRATEGY WITH MEG) Picking The Right Social Media Platforms For Your Niche A big reminder: your business is NOT one social media platform. AKA, your business is NOT Instagram. Your business is NOT TikTok. Your business is NOT LinkedIn. Those are platforms you use to MARKET your business, but that’s it. So it’s SUPER important to not only have more than one to rely on for marketing purposes (since putting all your eggs into one basket is dangerous no matter what we’re talking about), but to also...
Jan 22, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 330
I start this heart to heart off with a brief BTS biz update and how my perspective on goal setting and making business plans has completely changed since having these boys only two and a half weeks ago. Then I dive into my struggle with breastfeeding and decision to exclusively pump, and the toll the first 72 hours postpartum, aka “the baby blues” took on me mentally, physically, and emotionally. Thank you for being such a supportive and loving community. I feel so comfortable sharing all of the...
Jan 19, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 329
This interview could NOT be more timely because as we kick off the New Year it’s SO important to really take stock of where we’re at emotionally, mentally and physically in relation to our business. And man…2023 was a DOOZY for so many, leaving A LOT of people either on the verge of or knee DEEP in burnout. But my friend, myself and my AMAZING guest for today’s episode are here to shine some light: you CAN get out of this burnout spiral and in fact it’s ESSENTIAL in order to have your best year ...
Jan 15, 2024•36 min•Season 1Ep. 328
We did it folks. We had the twins!! And I was able to have them both vaginally, something that the majority of twin moms I've talked to don't get to experience. And boy WAS it an experience, one of which I detail in this birth story heart to heart episode. I hope you enjoy this episode and I’d like to officially welcome Ayden John and Kevin John into the world! NOTE: the sound on this is a BIT fuzzy but right now with twin parenting life I can’t re-record, so bare with me! Biz Resources: Get My ...
Jan 12, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 327
Our first awkward time interview of the year and we are kickin 2024 off STRONG with this one baby. Krissy Chin is an author, podcast host, and CEO of GROworkspace and K&C marketing and design. As a multi-passionate entrepreneur herself running two successful businesses and blending over 7 different revenue streams, Krissy has a unique approach to helping her students and clients build businesses around their many passions to earn twice as much working half the time with high-converting websi...
Jan 08, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 326
Happy Freakin NEW YEAR my #PrettyAwkward people! I mean how stinkin cool is it that we are kicking off the new year ON a Monday? I personally think that’s a sign that it’s going to be an amazing year and I’m rollin with that thought process, cuz why not, right?! I thought what better way to kick it off than with a little mindset perspective shifting to help you set yourself up for your best year yet. The shifts I talk about in this episode are things I’ve personally done in my almost 12 years of...
Jan 01, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 324
In this heart-to-heart episode, Meg reflects on her pregnancy journey at 38 weeks. She expresses gratitude for making it this far and being healthy. However, she also shares her discomfort and eagerness to not be pregnant anymore. Meg discusses the emotional challenges she has faced, including the loss of her father and the impact it has had on her first Christmas without him. She also talks about her excitement and nervousness for the future, both in terms of her business and becoming a twin mo...
Dec 29, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 323
Man…this was a YEAR. This year I experienced the lowest of lows and the highest of highs, all within a few weeks of each other. To say it’s been hard and horrible while also incredibly joyous and fulfilling sounds confusing, but that’s exactly what it was. And in this reflective episode I’m sharing it all: the good, the bad, and the ugly. I was able to bottle it down to ten major learning lessons from 2023 (both business and personal included). I’d LOVE to hear from you: which of these ten did y...
Dec 25, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 322
In this episode, Meg provides an update on her pregnancy journey and expresses her gratitude for reaching 37 weeks, a significant milestone for twins. She discusses the challenges of being uncomfortable and the desire for the babies to arrive. Meg also shares her plans for maternity leave as an entrepreneur, including continuing to run programs and courses, exploring new business ideas, and working on evergreen funnels. She emphasizes the importance of giving herself space and not putting pressu...
Dec 22, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 321
Have you ever heard of the term “anticipation marketing”? If you have, then you’ve obviously met Brenna McGowan, our amazing guest for today’s episode, cuz she coined and trademarked the term ;) Brenna McGowan is launch strategist & copywriter extraordinaire. She believes that hustle-based, high-pressure program launches don’t serve you or your customers. Instead, she teaches a systemized pre-launch process to put leads through so they’re primed, pre-sold, qualified, and raring to buy your o...
Dec 18, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 320
In this episode, Megan shares her pregnancy update and discusses the benefits of a work staycation. She explains how a work staycation can provide focused and uninterrupted time to get important projects done. Megan shares her own experience of booking a staycation and getting a significant amount of work done in a short amount of time. She encourages listeners to plan their own work staycations and provides tips on how to make it happen. Megan emphasizes the importance of taking time for yourse...
Dec 15, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 319
It’s that time of the year again, where we start reflecting on what went well this year, what didn’t and how we want to approach 2024. And maybe you’re like Meg, heck…I’ve already got my entire business plan on LOCK for 2024, you are LATE to the game with this episode. And if so? Then hats off to you, cuz that’s amazing. But if you haven’t gotten there quite yet, it is not too late to start to map out your plan so you can head into 2024 with confidence, clarity and DIRECTION. In this bite-sized ...
Dec 11, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 318
As I’m finishing up my 35th week of pregnancy I’m realizing more and more everyday how much life and business is about to change, and how so much of my identity has already shifted and will continue to shift as these boys come into this world. I hope this episode helps if you’re in a season of unpredictability, uncertainty or change and need to be open to things working out in a way you didn't necessarily plan, but that will ultimately be for your highest good. Thank you as always for listening ...
Dec 08, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 317
This is an interview that truly breaks all vulnerability barriers, and I cannot thank our guest, Chelsya Ashley ENOUGH for “going there” with us today. In this episode we discuss the uncomfortable yet really important topics of: Going outside the norm of “what’s expected of you” even when you feel like you have little to no support How to have tough conversations with team members and trusting your gut when it comes to firing and the juiciest of all… How to handle the pressures that come with be...
Dec 04, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 316
Going viral, growing quickly and building your social media presence all sounds like rainbows and butterflies and what a LOT of people say they desire. But WITH that quick growth can sometimes come backlash, negativity and people straight up leaving nasty comments on your page. How you handle that criticism is a whole other ballgame and easier said than done, and in this heart to heart I share how the fast growth we’ve seen on my new brands “Meg and Mike Do Marriage” IG account has been both ama...
Dec 01, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 315
The online space can feel like the wild, wild west sometimes, especially when it comes to creating content on Instagram. You post and post and post and end up feeling like the bad act at a comedy club…with RADIO SILENCE meeting you on the other end. A BIG reason I find newer coaches & course creators experience this? They don’t understand the difference between attraction, nurture and sales content. They’re trying to skip to sales content when they don’t have any ideal client followers (beca...
Nov 27, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 314
Happy Black Friday friends! In this heart to heart I’m sharing my philosophy on Black Friday both as a consumer and seller, and what “do’s and dont’s” I personally operate from. I also dive into a little recap of how we’ve been preparing for maternity leave (so that YOU don’t miss any podcast episodes I might add #yawelcome ) in hopes that it helps you plan ahead for time off as well! Enjoy! Biz Resources: →If you’re ready to create stand out content that brings in ideal clients, check out our B...
Nov 24, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 313
(STRATEGY WITH MEG): How to Create 16 Pieces of Content From ONE Idea If you’ve ever said “I feel so redundant and repetitive with my content” (lol that sentence is redundant), or… “I feel like I’m saying the same thing over and over and am boring my audience” or… “I can’t come up with new content ideas to say the same thing”, then buckle up baby… THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU! I am literally walking you through one of my Unique Content Camp frameworks to create SIXTEEN pieces of content from ONE main...
Nov 20, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 312
As per usual, I’m giving it to you straight with this heart to heart, and sharing in real time what’s been going on BTS in my life; both personal and business wise, and lemme tell ya… These last 48 hours have been more emotional for me than almost my entire pregnancy. In this episode I share how I’ve dealt with these fun pregnancy hormones and also how I’m preparing ahead for maternity leave in terms of content (yes, it’s a hodgepodge of an episode but valuable nonetheless). Thank you for being ...
Nov 17, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 311
