Megan Raposa is an award-winning journalist with a passion for local news. She started her own hyperlocal news outlet, Sioux Falls Simplified, in early 2021 with the goal of making it easy to feel smart about the forces that shape her city. Megan has always been a writer, and she discovered the journalism path in college and fell in love with it. She started at the Argus Leader newspaper in Sioux Falls, SD and worked a variety of jobs during her time there. Eventually, she left to start her own ...
Jun 23, 2022•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Pricing is challenging, it’s emotional, and it feels personal. And as women, we already deal with so much more imposter syndrome and inferiority complex - it is all more rampant among women than men. And I think a lot of that is because with men, if they do have some kind of imposter syndrome, it is a bit easier for them to look around themselves and see other men in positions of power or another man doing what they want to do. It is harder for women, for people of color, for minorities to be ab...
Jun 16, 2022•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast I’m so excited today to be joined by Samantha Ste Marie. Samantha is a productivity strategist and specifically works with service providers to help them find clients with ease and create their perfect work schedule. We all know that the perfect work schedule for someone else may not be the perfect work schedule for us. And in this culture of online business and so much hustle and grind, I think a lot of us are coming up for air, realizing that we don’t actually have as high of capacity as we th...
Jun 09, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast I have been approaching sales a bit differently in my business for the past year and a half. I used to rely really heavily on social media for sales and overall recognition. I still love social media, but I have been relying more on email marketing! I have been pleasantly surprised at the results that I’ve had and the increase in sales I’ve made by focusing on email marketing, both for products and in-person services. One of the changes that I’ve implemented more recently that has been a game ch...
Jun 02, 2022•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Colie James is a family filmmaker turned Dubsado and systems guru. She is based out of Colorado, has been married 21 years, has an almost 12 year old, and a love for Disneyland. In this episode, we talk all things automations, systems, Dubsado, and more. Here are a few highlights: Colie’s background and how she got started with automations What a CRM is Automating emails and how you can still sound personable Using gifs to add personality to your emails (and how Colie makes her own gifs!) Colie’...
May 26, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast We are so close to one of my favorite times of year! School is almost out and summer is near. One of my favorite things about this time of year is that I decided a few years ago that I would work less during the summer. My kids are home more often and making this decision has allowed me to really spend this time with them and enjoy the summers we have together. And I love summer (who doesn’t love summer?)! We’re busy, we’re on the road, we’re at the pool, and I want to not have to work as much. ...
May 19, 2022•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jade Boyd is a brand photographer and business coach who helps creative entrepreneurs simplify and scale their service-based businesses with a combination of smart marketing strategies and seamless systems. Jade fell in love with entrepreneurship while earning her BBA in entrepreneurship and her MBA in Marketing at the University of Iowa. She's passionate about helping creative entrepreneurs find a way to pursue big goals without sacrificing the things that matter most to them. Jade lives in Iow...
May 12, 2022•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast I have offered mini sessions in my business since the beginning of my business. I have such fond memories of mini sessions! The reason I started offering them at all was because it made me feel better about raising my prices. I felt guilty for raising my prices, so I offered mini sessions so I could work with the people that had kind of gotten me to the point I was at - essentially thanking them, while charging appropriate prices and still having boundaries around that lower pricing. Fast forwar...
May 05, 2022•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nicole Olson is a South Dakota photographer and private editor who loves helping burnt out creatives achieve freedom in their business. She has taken her 10+ years in the photography industry and seen that burnout is a common problem for photographers and can often be solved by outsourcing to make more time for themselves, their business, or their social life. Nicole recently made this transition in her business to include editing as one of her services and loves to help other photographers, alo...
Apr 21, 2022•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Since I have started educating in my business, whether that is having a coaching client or talking and giving advice on Instagram or the podcast, I more often get questions that are essentially, “Hey, can I pick your brain?” Sometimes that is exactly how it’s asked, sometimes it’s super tactful and addressing the fact that they understand I do this for a living and ask to grab coffee and chat, sometimes they offer to pay, but the question kind of remains the same. Another interesting layer to th...
Apr 07, 2022•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sabrina is a lifestyle photographer located in Texas. She’s been in business for 11 years, and for the past 6 years she has been diving into the education side of her business. This has involved mentoring, creating a course, speaking at conferences, starting a mastermind, and more, all of which focus on the business of photography. Once you’ve been in business for a while, there is often this natural flow to the education side of things. You’ve gained experience, worked with many people, and had...
Mar 24, 2022•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast BIG NEWS. By the time this episode is live, we will have hit 20,000 downloads for Take It Personally! This is a big deal, and I am so thrilled to see that number. I wanted to take the time to dive into Take It Personally - where it’s been and where I’m hoping to take it in 2022. This will be a little peek behind the curtain into my business, specifically the podcast. Thank you for being a part of this community and helping Take It Personally reach 20,000 downloads! I’m excited to share how I hav...
Mar 10, 2022•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Let's talk about Instagram predictions for 2022! At the time of this recording (late January 2022), Adam Mosseri, the CEO of Instagram, has been doing weekly videos announcing new features for Instagram and priorities for 2022. It has been really interesting, and there has been a lot of change in a short amount of time! In today’s episode, I’m diving into some of the changes and updates we’ve already seen, along with my personal Instagram predictions for 2022. Here are some things discussed in t...
Feb 24, 2022•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s podcast guest has become a very dear friend of mine. Her name is Jenny Roth , and she is a copywriter from near Aberdeen, SD. I’ve talked before about some of the changes that have occurred in my business over the last year. A big part of that has been hiring a team and working with team members and contractors that do various things in my business, and Jenny was one of the first people that I started working with. Jenny does so much writing in my business. She has done sales pages, my n...
Feb 11, 2022•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Since starting my business, I have been amazed at how utterly overwhelming parts of business ownership can be, and I think a lot of us can feel this way. I have often found myself thinking that I need a therapist for my business, and that is why I was so fascinated to meet today’s podcast guest, Celeste Coffman. Celeste is a licensed therapist and also a business coach, so she is a therapist for your business! Celeste and I had a great conversation on how she helps women in different ways to hel...
Jan 27, 2022•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast More are starting to ask: “What would it take for me to leave my job?” This is what today’s podcast is all about as I wanted to share everything that I did before I quit my job. While I love to work with people who are anxious to quit their job and want to establish a plan to make that happen, I personally don’t think everyone should quit their job (that’s not my goal in this episode). I think entrepreneurship is AMAZING and such a joy in my life, but it isn’t that for everyone. It can be hard t...
Jan 13, 2022•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alright folks, buckle up! We are talking about periods today, and this episode feels like a long time coming. It was before I got pregnant with my third child that I started seeing posts from Jenna and other holistic health practitioners about period health and how our cycle can impact so many other things, and therefore, often impact our business. I think that so often, as young girls, we are not told about the way that cycle tracking can impact our health and wellbeing and just our understandi...
Dec 30, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast I am so thrilled to have my friend, Sara Gillis, on the podcast! Sara has been a friend for a while, a brand photography client of mine, a current member of my group coaching program, and I have loved seeing her grow over the past year. When we first started working together, Sara was a teacher with a side hustle which she wanted to take full-time. Within a couple of months, she made that dream a reality, and her business has continued to grow! In this interview, Sara and I nerd out for a bit ab...
Dec 16, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s podcast guest is someone I recently met at the Reset Conference, and we hit it off right away! Christine Tremoulet is the Chief Growth Officer of AfterShoot, which is a company that helps photographers create more and edit less. Prior to this, she has a long history of working in creative fields. She’s had experience with web design, blogging, Wordpress (which she gave it’s official name!), photography, working closely with brands and businesses, and more. Christine loved wedding photogr...
Dec 02, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s no secret that I love Instagram. I’m a big fan of the platform. I love connecting with people there, I love creating the content, I love seeing what other people are doing and scrolling for way too long. It’s a great platform and when used properly, it can be a huge asset in your business. But it’s also no secret that Instagram can be really draining. I think especially over the past couple of the years that constant connection, while helpful, can also be a bit of a detriment. Because Insta...
Nov 18, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast This summer, I had an Instagram Reel go viral! And it was a really interesting thing to witness, and I wanted to reflect on it today. Video does not come super natural to me (I mean, hello, I have a podcast. That should tell you all that you need to know about how I feel about video). So, the fact that I do Reels at all, let alone have had some go viral, is shocking because it’s just not my jam. But I will add, that after practicing for a while, they have become easier to do! The Reel that went ...
Nov 04, 2021•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Since I started my podcast, I’ve gotten some questions from other people about how to start a podcast. This is an interesting question to answer because it’s actually very simple! If you are creating content in any area of your business, you could somehow turn that into a podcast or shift your business to have your podcast be your main form of content. Of course, there are challenging parts, too. I have found consistency to be really challenging when it comes to recording episodes. The tech part...
Oct 21, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast I’ve been working with a company since 2018. When we started working together, I had just left my full time job, and this company was on the smaller side. Both of our businesses were newer. Fast forward to 2020, their business absolutely exploded, and we went from doing shoots every couple of months to at least once a month. Now, really, this is a photographer’s dream. Consistent income, an ongoing relationship with a really fantastic client; on paper it was totally perfect. But in the same amou...
Aug 17, 2021•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Trish Taylor is a stylist + brand embodiment coach devoted to helping entrepreneurs show up authentically and attract their soulmate clients online and feel worthy of being seen as an authority in their space without fear of judgment. She has a background in personal styling celebrities like Ariana Grande, but after building an incredible career she realized it wasn't what she wanted. Trish started over, and her business as we know it today was born. Here are some of the things I talk about with...
Aug 10, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast I have always enjoyed blogging which I think makes me a little bit unusual because whenever I talk to my creative friends about blogging I am typically met with groans. It isn’t something that people necessarily like doing. I think some of that is because we are told that as creatives who have a website, we should be blogging. But it takes a while to see results from that blogging! And I think that’s because a lot of us are not doing it correctly . I noticed the biggest change in my business, we...
Jun 30, 2021•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Amanda Runia is an ex-accountant out of Brookings, SD, where she lives with her husband and three young kiddos. She has a love for fast talking, making new friends and helping others not feel lost. She owns a consulting business, In-House Ally, where she uses her accounting background and unique strengths to help business owners make better decisions and ultimately comes alongside them as an ally. I love when people like Amanda can take something seemingly overwhelming like finances and break it...
Jun 22, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast You finally feel good about those (higher! yay!) prices you're charging, only to find out that a "competitor" is doing what you're doing for half the price. What next? How do you handle it? Let's talk about the four things that need to happen when you find yourself in this position, and how it can actually be a very good thing for your business. Join the Facebook group for more discussion after the show! https://www.facebook.com/groups/takeitpersonally/
Mar 29, 2021•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Well hello. It's been a while. I'm popping in today to give you an update on my hiatus-turned-super-long-hiatus, and talking about what 2020 and my third pregnancy taught me about life and business. I missed you! Join the Facebook group here and let's continue the discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/takeitpersonally
Jan 06, 2021•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today on Take It Personally is guest, Chelsey Schnell! Chelsey is from Sioux Falls, married, and has 3 kids she gets to love on and 2 in heaven that she lost to miscarriage. She is an Enneagram 4, works in marketing and is also a photographer, and now runs a nonprofit she started, called Evermore Blooms. Evermore Blooms delivers flowers to moms, who have suffered a miscarriage, on their hardest days (due date, anniversary of the loss, etc.). Chelsey has a unique story as it has taken a lot of di...
May 19, 2020•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today I get to welcome Jada Dobesh onto Take It Personally! Jada Dobesh is the owner of Selah Space, a holistic wellness cooperative. She is a Spiritual Director who uses the Enneagram as a map for her directees personal, spiritual, and mental-emotional growth. She lives in Sioux Falls with her husband Witt, and daughter, Audrey and spends a great deal of her time baking bread and working in her garden. Over the past year, I have been exploring my spirituality more and have loved following Jada ...
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