As parents, our goal is to raise kids we actually want to hang out with, but often traditional schooling doesn't encourage inquisitiveness, wit, play and creativity.
We can introduce these elements at home, and allow our kids to develop 360-degree, surround sound thinking. This will benefit them their whole lives, and it can all begin with a good board game. How do we raise intellectual children? How does play help in academic areas and vice versa?
In this episode, I’m joined by CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, and author of “A+ PARENTING: THE SURPRISINGLY FUN GUIDE TO RAISING SURPRISINGLY SMART KIDS”, Eva Moskowitz. She shares simple ways parents can impact how their kids think, and make it an enjoyable experience.
If you’re raising intellectual children, parenting is so much more pleasurable. -Eva Moskowitz
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-Finding the right things for our kids to watch
Many parents are worried about the impact movies and shows can have on their kids, but can certain content actually be good for them?
-Create an intellectual moment and bonding opportunity
What’s the difference between occupying our kids and engaging with them?
-How to model curiosity and inquisitiveness
Kids are actually interested in details and specialized knowledge. How do we share what we know with them?
Guest Bio
Eva Moskowitz is the founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, and author of “A+ PARENTING: THE SURPRISINGLY FUN GUIDE TO RAISING SURPRISINGLY SMART KIDS”. She helps relieve the pressure and offer parents a guide that will make learning engaging, inspiring and fun for all involved. A+ PARENTING shares Eva’s experiences raising three children and educating 20,000 plus students.
For more information follow on;
Twitter: @moskowitzeva
LinkedIn: @evamoskowitz
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Sometimes our dream job doesn't turn out to be what we expected. That’s why Kate Stoermer made the courageous shift from healthcare to real estate. She needed a change, something that would truly ignite her passion and give her the energy she craved. Kate found that spark the world of vacation rentals.
The idea of investing in vacation real estate can be intimidating for many. It's natural to worry about the potential risks and uncertainties that come with such a significant financial commitment.
How do we dispel these worries? Where do we even begin when it comes to diving into the vacation rental market?
In this episode, founder and president of The CEO Host, Kate Stoermer talks about how the trajectory of her life changed with a career shift, and the benefits of vacation rentals and all they have to offer.
It didn’t take too long for me to realize the dream job wasn’t so dreamy. -Kate Stoermer
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-The next generation of entrepreneurs
What can our kids learn from being in our businesses?
-How the trajectory of our lives can change
How do we go out and seek what we’re truly passionate about when what we thought we wanted doesn’t work out?
-Starting from a place of goals
How do we gain a head start in getting to what we want?
Guest Bio
After achieving success with her own vacation rental portfolio - and serving hundreds of others in the industry on their own journey, Kate Stoermer left her full time career as a healthcare exec to help others enjoy the profits and perks of vacation rental investing.
Kate started in vacation rentals because she wanted to move the needle on retirement. Eventually, she leaned into her passion and left her career and started The CEO Host.
Her goal is personalized support to get people to their goal as soon as possible.
Kate is a super host (Airbnb) and premier host (VRBO), who owns and manages her own portfolio - and manages for others. She is experienced with partnerships, private money lending, and has analyzed hundreds of deals.
Having spent 27 years building a career and achieving much as a healthcare executive - and US Navy veteran, Kate brings that perspective to all she does. The CEO Host was born from a desire to help others approach their vacation rental investing as the business it is, and to be the expert team member helping people achieve success.
Visit https://www.theceohost.com/
Find Kate on LinkedIn @Kate Stoermer
Read Kate’s blog post Integrating Kids as Employees in Your Short-term Rental Business: A Parent's Guide
We all have moments where we feel stuck. We’re frozen, frantic, and we just can’t seem to pop into productivity, no matter what we do. It happens to all of us, sometimes multiple times a day. I have good news, ladies. There’s a way to move through our stuckness faster so that we don’t lose too much time.
But first we have to figure what kind of stuck we are.
What are the 4 reasons we get stuck and how do we move through each of them?
In this episode, we talk about how to get unstuck and how to move through our stuckness with greater ease.
Verbalizing is like giving your emotions a shower. It’s out of your system and it’s no longer festering inside. -Dana Malstaff
Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-How to know you’re stuck
What are the telltale signs that something is keeping us from moving forward?
-Straight up overwhelm
When everything feels like it’s….a lot, why do we need to do emotionless tasks?
-When you just feel a little dead inside
What’s the best way we can move through stuckness due to hormones?
-How to move through decision paralysis
If you’ve done all the research on something, you’ve definitely got enough information. How do you get out of feeling stuck and make a decision?
Infertility is a struggle so many women deal with privately, and even though medical protocols can help, they aren’t the solution for everyone. Modern medicine has made us forget that our bodies are made to heal themselves. We’re taught to normalize dis-regulation in our bodies and then use Band-Aid solutions instead of getting to the root cause.
How do we tune into our bodies and advocate for ourselves? How did our guest heal her body and go from a 1% chance of getting pregnant to a mom of 4 kids?
In this episode, Infertility Coach, Author and Publisher, Erica Hoke shares her journey to motherhood, and why the medical route isn’t always the best way to solve infertility.
You have to tune into not just pushing through what you’re feeling. -Erica Hoke
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-Your body is made to mend itself
Modern medicine’s approach to infertility is manipulating your body to get you pregnant. Why is it critical to get to the root cause of infertility?
-Advocate for yourself
How do we confidently take charge of what’s in our control and what we’re responsible for when it comes to our health?
-Learning to listen to your pain, discomfort and dis-regulation
How has Erica built a movement of doing what works for our own health according to what our bodies are telling us?
Guest Bio
Erica Hoke is an Author, Publisher, Infertility Mentor & Empowerment Coach who's on a mission to empower infertility patients and disrupt the reproductive medical system.
At 35, Erica was told she had less than a 1% chance of ever conceiving naturally after struggling for years with endometriosis, uterine fibroids, PCOS, thyroid disease, factor 5 Leiden and MTHFR - so she refused to participate in traditional IVF or IUI methods and instead committed to getting to the bottom of her infertility issues via diet, lifestyle changes and traditional Chinese medicine. Today this fierce mom of four shares her inspiring story as a means to give hope to those still seeking a family through alternate paths. Through her free support group, group coaching opportunities and one-on-one sessions Erica mentors’ others through their own journeys while teaching them how to collaborate with their doctors in order to systematically address their obstacles before pursuing invasive and expensive treatments.
For those who have battled and overcome infertility, Erica offers an opportunity to heal through book collaborations and the sharing of their stories - all in the hopes of helping others on their journeys.
For more information, head to https://ericahoke.com/ and also check out her free resources.
Being surrounded by people who genuinely care about us is so important for human beings, but sadly, it’s rare. Far too many people walk around feeling unsupported, unseen and broken.
Creating connection and building communities where they feel cared for, rooted for and seen makes such a huge impact on how they show up in the world.
How do we build communities where people feel at home right off the bat? Why do we have to shift from being the teachers to being the facilitators?
In this episode, Certified Life Coach, and the Connections Director at Nurture to Convert®, Nicole Terrell joins me to talk about the importance of community, and how to go about building it.
We are so busy all the time that we also don’t recognize the power of someone just seeing you. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-An individual isn’t scalable, but a community is
When we step away from being the teacher and the center of our community, how does that multiply our reach?
-Being stuck is a rite of passage
How do we see being stuck as a set up for something awesome, not a setback?
-You get to be the person that heals people
How do we help people feel less judged, broken, unseen and lonely?
Guest Bio
Nicole Terrell is a Certified Life Coach, and the Connections Director at Nurture to Convert®. She helps single women find themselves while they're in between relationships, so they don't lose themselves in their future relationships. For more information, head to https://www.wildlyworthywomen.com/.
A few years ago, the answer to growing a business was adding a bunch of value and doing all the teaching and training yourself. Today, if we want our audience to hang around, fall in love with us, share us, have loyalty and buy from us, we have to build communities.
How do we make people validated, valued and also create connection with shared beliefs and a vision for the future?
In this episode, I talk about the easiest way to grow our businesses and build a loyal audience.
If you want to grow your business nowadays, the name of the game isn’t to create a bunch of value, it’s to facilitate people feeling valued. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-The power of a shared vision
How do we make people feel good about being a part of what we’re building?
-You can’t have a business without a community
How do we grow without constantly teaching, training and adding value?
-You’re not alone, you’re not crazy
How do we build communities that foster a sense of belonging?
The journey of growing our businesses is anything but a straight line. We evolve, change our minds, and things shift in our worlds. We’ll go through stages of figuring things out, reworking things and pivoting and that’s totally okay! That journey builds up a toolkit that makes our communities stronger.
How do we figure out if we’re in the right niche and talking to the right people? How do we stop feeling bad about pivoting and moving into new ideas?
In this episode, returning guest and founder of Motherhood Simplified, Krista Lockwood returns to give us a peek into her evolution and share why it’s okay for our ideas to change.
A teacher doesn’t share with you as they are learning. The teacher takes the best lessons from everything they’ve learned -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-Creating a results framework
How can we reverse engineer what we’re good at so we can succinctly explain why it works?
-It’s hard to build a community on celebration
Why is it so powerful to create a space where people can share their struggles without judgment?
-Sharing from our wounds vs. our scars
How do we know if it’s too early to start teaching something even if we’re passionate about it?
Guest Bio
Krista Lockwood is the Founder of Motherhood Simplified, where she teaches decluttering for moms who don’t want to be full blown minimalists. In 2013, she and her husband moved from Alaska to Florida with only one suitcase each. While she doesn't believe you need to go that extreme, she has been able to master the balance of having enough, but not too much. Krista strongly believes we all have what it takes to create the lives and homes we want, no matter what that looks like. On top of her courses offered on decluttering, Krista is the host of the Motherhood Simplified Podcast.
Visit http://motherhoodsimplified.com/
Join Krista’s Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2010014145929427/
Listen to Krista’s podcast http://motherhoodsimplified.com/podcast/
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As Boss Moms with kids returning to school, getting back into old routines and figuring out new ones, feeling unfocused and stressed out is inevitable.
How do we bring ourselves back to center after feeling out of alignment? Is it normal to feel unfocused? Are we spending our time in the right places?
In this episode, I talk about how to reign our focus back in, and why we should give ourselves grace.
You are not unfocused. This moment is unfocused and if we recognize that, it’s fixable. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-What we need to focus on
How do we bring ourselves into a space where we feel good about what we’re doing?
-How to recognize when you’re not focused
How do we get to the bottom of why we’re not focused?
-Closing out things one at a time
There is no way we can get everything done at once. How do we close things out and get tasks done one at a time?
There’s a lot of energy in this world. That’s why we can feel drained by certain people but energized by others.
Understanding what energy makes us feel good and finding more of it allows us to build the lives we want. Also knowing what’s low vibration for us steers away from things that zap our energy.
How can we understand the different energy around us and how it connects to our lives?
In this episode, serial entrepreneur and mom of 3, Nicole Brodie joins me to talk about understanding vibrations, manifesting the life you want and how affirmations and gratitude connect to a happy life.
I really believe that the universe is there for us. It will bring us what we want but we need to make efforts, take action and get out of our comfort zone. -Nicole Brodie
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
-What do we expose ourselves to?
How do we pinpoint things that create a low vibration so that we can avoid it?
-How limiting beliefs affect energy
Negative self-talk is something that everyone deals with, but can we manifest what we want if we don’t believe we deserve it?
-Committing to happiness
Changing things in our lives takes work, how do we do it?
Guest Bio
Nicole is a serial entrepreneur and juggles a very unique lifestyle around 3 active children. Nicole is not your ordinary coach. She swears a little when passionate, uses a non cookie-cutter approach, tunes into the guidance from strong intuition, uses healing and at the same time doing it whilst smiling and having fun. Nicole essentially helps driven women manifest their dream life using meditation.
Visit https://nicolebrodie.com/
Join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenmanifestingdreamlife
Link to high vibe program: https://nicolebrodie.com/funnel/5-day-high-vibe-tribe/start/
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New high vibe tribe program - 5 day program that is a blueprint to raising vibrations - includes daily meditations, videos, workbooks and a lot more. https://nicolebrodie.com/funnel/5-day-high-vibe-tribe/start/
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Find Nicole Brodie on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-brodie-04585450/
Follow Nicole on Instagram @iamnicolebrodie
Subscribe to Nicole’s YouTube channel @iamnicolebrodie
Summer is over and we’re in the throes of our kids going back to school. That means a return to our routines, which can be overwhelming, but also exciting for our businesses.
We have more space in our schedules to get work done and we can leverage a season where people are in buying mode.
If we want Q4 and the beginning of next year to be powerful, there are 4 things we have to ask ourselves. How do we let go of things that aren’t serving our businesses and key in on what’s working?
In this episode, I share a simple exercise that will set us up for a strong finish this year.
Real success is in consistently testing, tweaking and growing. It’s consistently assessing and letting go of and only keeping the things that are really working and doing more of those. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- A case for not doing all the things
There are so many things we could be doing in our businesses, how do we find what aligns with our energy and goals?
- Permission to let go
How do we sync ourselves up with what’s working and eliminate what’s not without guilt?
- Testing, tweaking and growing
How do we check in with ourselves and our businesses on a regular basis?
As Boss Moms, we are strong, independent and know what we want. We can live our lives and realize how wonderful, unique and dynamic we are but sometimes it's difficult to find a meaningful partnership with somebody.
How do we go about creating new experiences with our partners and figure out who is good for us? As women, how do we stay firm on our feet but also lean back when someone is pursuing us?
World-renowned celebrity love strategist and the founder of Love Strategies Adam LoDolce joins me to talk about understanding how men love, the correlation between business and relationships and how to be happier and more fulfilled in a relationship.
The key to success in both business and love when it comes to dating is to actually be scarce. -Adam LoDolce
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Unfolding things in relationships
How do we create little love hooks without playing games with the other person? How do we keep our partners intrigued?
- Impulse control in your love life
How can we apply discipline when it comes to being unavailable for other people?
- Narrowing down your niche
When it comes to narrowing down our niche, how do we decide who (and what) brings value?
Guest Bio
Adam LoDolce is a world-renowned celebrity love strategist and the founder of Love Strategies™. Over the past ten years, his online courses have helped thousands of women successfully find long-lasting love. He was also the host of "Kate Plus Date" on TLC, helping Kate Gosselin find love. His love strategies are also featured on PBS, Glamour, MTV, Cosmo, Women's Health, and People Magazine for his practical approach to attracting love. He's also lectured at over 300 universities across the country on confidence, dating & relationships.
Visit https://lovestrategies.com/
Find Adam on LinkedIn @Adam LoDolce
Find Adam on Instagram @adamlodolce
Find Love Strategies on TikTok @lovestrategies
Subscribe to the Love Strategies YouTube Channel @LoveStrategies
Find Love Strategies on Facebook @lovestrategiesinc
Language, our vocal pitches and accents are the ultimate marker of identity. The words we speak and how we say them affect how people perceive us and even our ability to build authority.
As parents, there are facets of our kids' vocabulary that we might not get, like why they say ‘sus’ and ‘fire’, but these words actually reveal a lot about history, culture and identity.
How does language evolve over time? What linguistic features are unique to women, and how can we use them to our advantage?
In this episode, I’m joined by professor of linguistics and author of LIKE, LITERALLY, DUDE, Valerie Fridland.
We have a fascinating conversation about interesting things about speech, language and how we communicate.
What we find in language is the unexpected, the novel is always more powerful than the same old, same old, and that is one of the main drivers of change. -Valerie Fridland
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- It’s not bad English, it’s the evolution of English
As parents, we might think our kids using words like ‘sus’ and ‘fire’ are decaying the language, but are these truncations completely normal?
- How to be heard the way you want
Women have developed strategies to be polite and still get themselves heard. How do we take advantage of beliefs people have about vocal pitch?
- Vocal fry and “Valley Girl accents”
Are some of the things that are seen as annoying and negative actually a way for women to have more authority?
Guest Bio
Valerie Fridland is a professor of linguistics in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. She writes a popular language blog on Psychology Today called Language in the Wild, and is also a professor for The Great Courses series. She is the author of LIKE, LITERALLY, DUDE: Arguing for the Good in Bad English. In it, she delivers a lively exploration of the speech habits we love to hate—and why our “likes”s and “literally”s actually make us better communicators. For more information, head to https://www.valeriefridland.com/.
Buy LIKE, LITERALLY, DUDE: Arguing for the Good in Bad English on Amazon, and read her Psychology Today column Language in the Wild here.
As parents, what we do each and every day impacts our children. Even if we have the best intentions, when we have baggage and normalize our own pain, it affects them.
Working on ourselves is a powerful step towards being the parents we want to be, and that starts with unraveling our own trauma and baggage.
How can we work on ourselves without adding a lot more stuff on our plates? How do we become the foundation of how our kids see the world?
In this episode, I’m joined by generational integrity coaches, energy guides for parents and co-founders of The Parent Empowerment Movement, Jenny Murtagh and Felicia Severhill. They share how parents can do the inner work so we raise our children the way we want to.
There’s room for everyone’s needs to be important on the family plate. -Jennifer Murtagh
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Take guilt off your plate
How do we overcome the feeling that working on ourselves takes away from our kids?
- Be the rock and the tether
How do we unravel our own traumas and unhealthy beliefs so we can model the behaviors we actually want to pass onto our kids?
- We can’t teach values, we have to live them
How do we prepare our children to deal with not-to-helpful messages and ideas from the outside world?
Guest Bio
Jenny Murtagh and Felicia Severhill are generational integrity coaches, energy guides for parents, co-founders of The Parent Empowerment Movement and members of the Nurture to Convert Accelerator. We teach passionate parents busy nurturing young children how to give that same level of support and nourishment to themselves, without compromising dedication to their children. Instead of ignoring your own needs, and feeling like you can’t do or be enough to fully meet your kids’ needs, we help you better understand everyone’s needs fully, give you tools that actually work to meet those needs and solve the problems at hand, and help you tap into your own natural parenting manual.
For more information, head to https://www.theparentempowermentmovement.com/, and follow @theparentempowermentmovement on Instagram.
Seeing how we live our lives is how our kids gauge reality and ultimately create the lives they want.
If we make them feel like parenthood means giving up what we love, that’s what they’ll believe. If we show them that we can have things we’re passionate about, they’ll follow that example.
Being mothers, business owners and everything else in our lives certainly isn’t easy, and that’s okay. The more honest we are about that and the less we obsess over balance, the better the journey gets.
In this episode, I’m joined by professional climber, conservation entrepreneur, founder of Legado and the author of “More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood”, Majka Burhardt. We talk about her journey, what she wants to teach her kids and the power of deconstructing and reinventing everything.
Seeking balance means that one day we’ll achieve it and be perfect. Motherhood made me realize that everything exists together and it’s always moving. -Majka Burhardt
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Do it with joy, but also with honesty
We all have different aspects to our identity. How does motherhood color those things and how we show up in all our roles?
- Take yourself on an adventure
How did Majka choose what life, motherhood and entrepreneurship looked like for her without following convention?
- It’s okay if our kids aren’t insanely passionate about anything
There’s a lot of pressure around the idea of having a passion. Does that do a disservice to our children?
Guest Bio
Majka Burhardt is a professional climber, conservation entrepreneur, author, and filmmaker. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Legado and the author of Vertical Ethiopia: Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa, which was short-listed for the Banff Book Award, as well as her latest book, More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood, a Next Big Idea Club must-read.
More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood is an intense and emotional epistolary memoir by one of the world's top ice climbers, born at the confluence of motherhood, adventure, career, and marriage. As leading professional climbers and mountain guides, Majka Burhardt and her husband led globe-trotting, adventure-seeking lives. When she learns that she’s pregnant—with twins—Burhardt at first tries to balance her pursuit of extreme risk with her new reality of maternal responsibility. However, she is ultimately forced to face the avalanche of emotions unleashed by the biggest disruption she’s ever confronted—in the mountains or otherwise. Based on the letters and journals Burhardt diligently kept over the course of her pregnancy and the first five years of her children’s lives, More takes the reader on an around-the-world journey as Burhardt explores the transformative, identity-shifting experience of motherhood and its irreversible impact on career, identity, marriage, and self.
For more information follow @majkaburhardt on Instagram and buy the book here.
Being a parent takes a massive amount of energy, love, time and commitment, but many of us yearn for that not to be the only legacy we have. We yearn to create meaningful things outside of our kids, and writing a book is one of the best ways to do that.
If you have something you want to say to help people, make clear or change about the world, you have what it takes to write something great.
With all we have going on in our lives, how could we possibly make time for writing a book? Can we write something great in a very short time?
In this episode, Bestselling Author of "The Politically Homeless Christian" and Head Publishing Strategist at selfpublishing.com, Aaron Schafer shares how to write that book in a defined sprint.
If we’re able to embrace a little bit of unbalance for a month or two, that can create some pretty amazing things. -Aaron Schafer
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Stop saying “I’ll write that book when…”
With all the things we have on our plates, is it possible to add writing a book to our schedules?
- Crystalizing your idea
How do we turn a bunch of ideas and threads into a full book?
- A book is a powerful marketing tool
How does the process of writing a book help us clarify our messaging?
Guest Bio
Aaron is a blogger, podcaster, motivational speaker and the Bestselling Author of "The Politically Homeless Christian" and Head Publishing Strategist and Vice President of Sales and Business Development at selfpublishing.com. He has been featured on the Christian Television Network, iHeartRadio, Family Life Radio, and numerous podcasts. Aaron lives in Michigan with his wife Naomi and their four children: Elizabeth, Emma, Sophie, and Andrew.
Visit selfpublishing.com/bossmom to register for the training on How to build Instant Legitimacy by writing and publishing a book and how to publish this year no matter where you're at in the writing process.
Being healthy isn’t just about looking good. It’s about feeling good in our bodies, having energy, being around for as long as possible and setting an example for our kids. Food is a huge part of health, and most of the time it feels like achieving it requires us to give up all the foods we love.
What if we could eat whatever we want, just managed intentionally, so we can still reach our goals? What are macros and why are they an easier way to track our nutrition?
In this episode, I’m joined by mother-daughter duo, Hilary Downey and Bridget Shinn. They share how their app Body By Hilary makes nutrition less overwhelming and restrictive so you can have that pizza guilt-free!
As a mom, I don’t want my kids to see me constantly at war with food and my body. -Hilary Downey
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- A personal budget for your calories
How do we use macros to get optimum results?
- Don’t put the progress on a pedestal
Why is it so much easier to achieve our health goals when we focus on the habit, not the outcome?
- Give protein more attention
Why is protein so important as you’re getting older?
Guest Bio
Hilary Downey and Bridget Shinn are a mother-daughter duo that each lost 100 pounds by learning to count macros and creating balanced lifestyle habits. They own Balance by Hilary – a company that teaches women how to stop fad dieting and finally lose weight for good eating the foods they love.
The Balance by Hilary app, where you can access our 28-Day Macro Challenge that teaches you step-by-step our framework for learning to count macros so you can lose weight eating the food you love. Download the app on the Play Store or App Store and follow @balancebyhilary and @bridget_bbh on Instagram.
One of the biggest barriers to more sales is being so passive in our approach, we can’t move people into action.
We fear being too aggressive and pushy so many people we talk to hover at hesitancy.
Can we be more proactive without putting people off? What can we do to make our emails and messaging more proactive?
In this episode, I share tactical tips on being more proactive about sales.
Being aggressive, pushy and in your face is very different to being assertive and proactive. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- How to close the uncertainty gap
There’s a lot of hesitancy in the market, but there are still people who need your help. How do we move them forward?
- Stop having chats
How do we put more intention behind our communication?
- From the passivity of writing to the proactivity of talking
What hacks can we use to engage with people more directly?
When it comes to building great brands, the words we use matter. Good copy shouldn’t just inform people, it should ooze personality and speak directly to our audience.
Whether you write your own copy or hire someone, there are ways we can set ourselves apart with the words people see on our websites and social media.
What’s the secret to personality-filled copy? Is A.I a threat to copywriters?
In this episode, I’m joined by Dietitian, Diabetes Educator, Lactation Consultant, writer and coach, Julie Cunningham. She shares how to craft copy that stands out.
There’s a ridiculous amount of content that’s going out on the internet everyday and all kinds of online publications pay for content. -Julie Cunningham
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- The truth about A.I copy
Should copywriters be worried about A.I replacing them?
- How to turn your expertise into a copywriting service
How do we leverage the topics and subjects we know really well?
- How to make your copy sound like you
How do we make sure our content feels true to our personalities?
Guest Bio
Julie Cunningham is a Dietitian, a Diabetes Educator, and a Board Certified Lactation Consultant. After 20 years in healthcare, Julie became a writer and coach for women in the helping professions. She creates evergreen email sequences designed to highlight expertise, nurture connections, and maximize sales.
For more information, visit https://www.juliecunninghamcoaching.com and https://boss-mom.com/julie/ for her 90-day nurture email sequence.
As parents, our kids are our priority. We want to raise them well and help them grow to be the best version of themselves. We want our kids to grow up to be confident and resilient.
How do we create common language between us and our kids so that we can have meaningful conversations that will instill confidence? How can we show our kids that we respect them and that they are capable?
Founder and CEO of the family mental health and wellness company Mighty + Bright, Sara Olsher joins me for this episode to talk about the different ways we can support and encourage our kids, and how we can teach them valuable skills that will help them grow. Sara also shares her story about her journey into helping families through difficult times.
We treat kids with a different expectation than we have for ourselves. -Sara Olsher
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Building a baseline of trust
How do we build a baseline of trust between us and our kids?
- Don’t avoid talking about the hard stuff
Sometimes we keep the difficult stuff to ourselves as it's painful or hard to talk about it. What can we do to make it easier to talk about, especially to our children?
- Projecting trauma
Everyone has different experiences and we should not project our own trauma onto our kids.
Guest Bio
Sara Olsher is the founder and CEO of the family mental health and wellness company Mighty + Bright, and the author of ten picture books for kids coping with divorce, cancer, change, and big feelings. As a single parent and cancer survivor, Sara has seen firsthand that the universe can deal some pretty harsh blows. Her company, Mighty + Bright, provides tools meant to help overwhelmed parents prioritize mental health for their kids, learning together and incorporating coping skills into day-to-day life.
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If your opt-in isn't working then you will want to listen as I walk Natalie through the process of tweaking the content on her opt-in to get it to convert better.
As Boss Moms, we go through many challenges that lead to us forgetting to take care of ourselves. The truth is, we’re the best version of ourselves and moms and business owners when we dedicate some time to focusing on ourselves.
Why is the self-care component so important, and how does it tie in with mental health? How do we learn and transition into the self-care component?
In this episode, the founder and owner of AK! Fitness brand Amanda Kloots joins me to talk about the life challenges a Boss Mom faces, how to take back control and why self-care is not selfish.
I believe that I am the best version of myself as a mom when I feel fulfilled in myself too. -Amanda Kloots
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Leveraging your time
How can we leverage our time properly so we can spend it with our family and to take care of ourselves?
- Growing your business with self-care in mind
Can we scale our businesses so it can run by itself?
- Find your own outlet
As Boss Moms, it can be difficult to find our own outlets, how do we find what fills our cups?
Guest Bio
An Ohio native, Amanda brings her infectious and inspirational attitude to everything that she does. A former Broadway dancer and Radio City Rockette, Amanda performed on a variety of stage, film and tv productions for over seventeen years.
Amanda’s love of dance and fitness led her to work and lead classes at one of New York’s premiere fitness studios with regularly sold out classes teaching upwards of 12 hours a day. Amanda developed the jump rope method after years of trying different ways to stay in great shape. She fell in love with the jump rope after discovering it's the quickest, most effective way to get a full body workout, and spent years creating ways to use it for more than just jumping. In 2016, Amanda decided to focus full time on her AK! Fitness brand – her signature classes featured jump ropes and dance mixed with cross training to create a unique full body workout.
In addition to the AK! Fitness brand, Amanda and her sister Anna launched the apparel company Hooray For® that celebrates positivity and donates proceeds to non-profit organizations worldwide. Amanda’s first memoir, co-written with her sister, was released in June 2021 and is set to become a movie. The title, “Live Your Life”, tells of her ninety five day struggle and love story with her husband Nick Cordero. Most recently, Amanda wrote, executive produced, and starred in the CBS holiday movie “Fit for Christmas” in December 2022.
Kloots currently resides in Los Angeles with her son, Elvis.
Find Amanda on Instagram @amandakloots
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Marketing and sales is all about making choices. People either excel or fail because of the choices they make, so we have to be sure we make the right ones.
When it comes to marketing, are women generally better at certain aspects of it? Is there a feminine advantage? Can people actually shift our perspective about sales and marketing?
In this episode, international Sales and Marketing Consultant Dorothy Villeneuve, joins me to talk about looking at marketing in a new light, how she got started in sales and the many different ways of doing sales.
The more and longer we have been in the sales, marketing and online space, the more I realize we are part of a revolution. -Dana Malstaff.
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Spending time with the right people
Why should we spend time with people who get us fired up and motivated?
- Timeless training
What things in sales and marketing will never lose their value?
- Clarity, communication and commitment
How do we build clarity on the things that we want for our businesses?
Guest Bio
Dorothy is dedicated to helping women achieve unshakeable confidence and utilize simple, repeatable systems and strategies in their sales so that they can attract ideal clients to their high-ticket offers.
She is an international Sales and Marketing Consultant for online women entrepreneurs and offers DONE WITH YOU consulting to help 6-figure online coaches and experts zero in on their zone of brilliance, simplify and increase their sales and finally get all their fancy funnels and copywriting done even if they dread tech and feel scattered.
High Converting Sales Page Guide learn.dorothyvilleneuve.com/high-converting-sales-page
Visit https://dorothyvilleneuve.com/
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorothy-villeneuve-acc/
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Everyone’s always talking about authenticity, and how we need to be more authentic in our lives and businesses. But what does that really mean? Authenticity is key, but we actually need to know what it looks like to make sure it shines through.
Can we be strategic about authenticity? Are there steps that we can take that may help our authenticity and integrity shine through?
In this episode, I talk all about what being authentic actually means, how to use it to grow our businesses and why we need to be conscious of the things we care about.
Authenticity is what people see. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Authenticity and transparency
People tend to confuse authenticity with transparency. What is the difference between the two?
- How do we show authenticity?
What does authenticity actually look like in action?
- Understanding how humans work
How do we gain better insight into how humans work?
As moms, partners, daughters, sisters, friends and business owners, we only have so much time and energy. Boundaries are how we protect all those valuable resources, and make sure we’re not spread too thin.
It’s not just about time and people. It’s also about the words we use and the cultural messages we let into our own lives.
In this special 600th and birthday episode, I share the boundaries I’ve set up in my life so that I can show up the way I want to.
Let your mind and body feel young. We age faster when we give up hope and wonder. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Why I don’t use the word busy anymore
How do we reframe being busy to having an amazing and full life?
- Bigger isn’t always the goal in business
Why have I built a boundary around how fast and big my business grows?
- Saying yes to the right things
It’s hard to turn down a paying client, but why do we have to set boundaries around who we work with?
When it comes to social media, a lot of the things we’re told to do to get followers, likes and shares don’t work anymore.
Motivational posts, teaching posts, value-add posts and promo posts - none of these are leading to growth, and it makes us hate social media. So what is working? What will get people to like and follow your content?
In this episode, I talk about what isn’t working on social media and what we should be posting instead.
When you can be true about what the world looks like for you, that’s where social media grows for you. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Why we end up hating social media
Are we getting our social media growth advice in all the wrong places?
- The power of truisms
How do we pull people in without posting calls-to-action all the time?
- How to go beyond surface level opinions
Why do we have to know what we wish was different about this world?