Fabulous Fempreneurship

Is 2020 the year you are creating beauty in your living and work spaces?  If we have cluttered spaces, we can't really think straight. An uncluttered work area will help us be more productive. When we create an inviting space,  we can welcome clients into our home office and right away they will feel relaxed and comfortable.  Our expert in creating beauty in living and work spaces is Jill Ackerman from StageRight.  In this podcast she explains how to making your space beautiful doesn't necessarily have to cost a lot of money.  She has some wonderful hacks using items such as river rock that you can purchase from discount dollar stores.  Want new artwork for your office?  Jill has some great ideas of how to achieve this with simple everyday items.

Before and after separation and divorce you might want to look at how to avoid costly housing mistakes.  It's easy during this time period to be in emotional turmoil and make costly housing mistakes.  Don't let that happen to you.  Our podcast guest, Sandy Casella has seen it all.  During her marriage breakup she was faced with how to avoid costing housing mistakes.  As a real estate agent with over 30 years experience, she is skilled at helping both men and women navigate this difficult path of finding the right housing.  Listen to this podcast to learn how to avoid costly housing mistakes.

This is an interesting topic because there probably is no absolutely right time!  For our podcast guest, Sarah Seale, it was taking the leap and going into the cannabis industry.  Sarah has tons of international experience in the food industry and over 15 years experience in the areas of operations, sales, human resources, and franchise development.  She saw a market gap in the "hot" cannabis industry because not only is she handling the HR side for a growing list of clients, Sarah is able to combine this with complete management consulting.  This young industry is still trying to sort out what kind of management structure it needs and what kind of expertise they will require in the short and long term. Sarah's experience makes her ideally suited to jump right in.  Sarah talks about how you can use your ladder of experience to try something completely new or segue into a specific industry using your skillset.

Google looks for content all the time, but not all content is equal!  As Sarah McKenzie. our guest expert in this podcast explains, we need to write with SEO (search engine optimization) in mind.  That means finding the right keywords and how to sprinkle them through the content so the finished copywriting scores well for SEO.  What is a copywriter? A copywriter is a content writer who writes for SEO and social media. That pretty well sums it up.  Listen to all the nuggets of advice from Sarah as to how to write great marketing copy. It can make or break your business.  A copywriter solves the problems of your target audience using words.

Our health expert, Kelly Duffin explains the 6 foundational principles for optimal health in this first podcast for 2020.  Every day we are thinking, breathing and moving, but essential to our health are sleep, nutrition and hydration. More than 90% of any health, wellness or body image challenge stems from an imbalance of one or more of the 6 foundational principles for optimal health.  Learn how you can re-balance and have optimal health.  

Reading people: how understanding the social styles of your customers, your colleagues and yourself can make it possible for you to flex and adapt your style to achieve understanding, motivation and results.   Our podcast guest, Aileen McNabb has spent most of her career making presentations and is an expert at reading the room and adapting to the audience.  She shares the important skill of understanding the social styles of your customers.  Aileen breaks them down into four quadrants for easy recognition and explains these styles in the podcast. And which style is Donald Trump?   Listen to find out, you might be surprised!

You don’t have to be Nike or Apple to develop a great personal brand.  Personal branding is for every small, medium size business.  Our podcast guest, Rita Zietsma, explains personal branding and the top three things that hold people back from being seen.  At the start of this decade, why not listen to how you can launch your business by developing your personal branding.

Entrepreneurship is HARD! If we step into situations, opportunities and challenges then we can overcome our fears and expand your capacity for success. Our podcast guest, Sharon Gilmour-Glover, shares fabulous insights on how people who are stretching are changing the world into a better place. Sharon shares with us the main block to success is FEAR Fear of not being good enough Fear of rejection Fear of being too good Overcoming these fears will expand your capacity for success.

How can we learn the art of working in a feminine way?  Julia Schneider explains in this podcast that we can avoid burnout by learning the art of working in a feminine way.  Using nontraditional ways to heal herself after she experience burnout, Julia has innovative solutions for being successful in business and life.  She shares her secrets in this motivating podcast.

Fast moving companies are adopting agile scrum project management.  Our podcast guest, Tata Garcia from Bogota, Colombia,  is a scrum master and explains how this new project management process works.  The main difference in this style of project management is the team designs the whole process and what steps need to be done and how it's going to be done.  In other words the team is responsible for the project design.  That means they are fully committed to the outcome since it's their own design!

Can you activate ambition?  Our podcast guest, singer, actress, speaker and producer, Shanie Evans, shares her tips on how to activate ambition.  Born in Canada, Shanie went to Los Angeles where she didn't know a soul.  She shares how she was able to activate her ambition to advance her career in the entertainment field.  Shanie believes everyone has ambition, but  success depends on if you activate that ambition.   Do you want to learn how to activate ambition? Listen to our podcast for great tips.

As a renowned Sociologist, author, keynote speaker and frequent guest expert on CTV’s “The Social”, Professor Major is on a mission to change how women feel about themselves. In this inspiring, passionate and funny podcast, Maja talks about how we let the “shitty committee” drain us of all confidence, ruminate on our failures, endlessly apologize and seek unobtainable perfectionism.  You will learn how to stop this from happening and gain the confidence to apply for that new position, launch yourself into a new career or start your own business.

It took some time for Sophie Charlotte to be true to herself.  Born in the Netherlands with a career in teaching, she was miserable, anxious and depressed.  Sophie is passionate, she shares you can only be happy if you are true to yourself. And as a starting point, you have to find this truth.  In this podcast, Sophie shares her journey and helps others how to be true to yourself for a happier and fulfilled life.  As a highly sensitive person (HSP) finding her truth meant uprooting herself and moving to Florence, Italy where she now flourishes.

Your health, emotions, stress & self-leadership go hand in hand.  If we get on the right page with our own self-leadership, we can not only have overall better health but we also empower others. Once we appreciate the power of our emotions and what stress really is, we can connect to our inner power and become better parents, partners, leaders, and more compassionate human beings.  Our podcast guest, Edita Atteck explores how in today's society we struggle with increased chronic illness, stress, anxiety, a toxic workplace atmosphere, an epidemic of mental health issues in kids, and how our search for quick fixes undermines the path to our well-being. There are alternative ways, but first, we need to understand how our bodies and minds work together.  Your health, emotions, stress & self-leadership need to be explored.   Can you Awaken Your Inner Leader?

Most entrepreneurs would say taking risks start at the beginning when you launch your company.  Millennial CEO rising star, Ruthie Schulder from New York City, looks at taking risks, differently. In this podcast, Ruthie takes us down the road of what risk taking means to her as she builds and expands her experiential marketing firm. She is pioneering a new kind of agency, one that builds experiences in live moments with a huge digital focus.  Ruthie talks about saying "no" to clients/partners who are no longer the right fit has been the riskiest move in order to catapult her business to the next level. Taking risks is challenging and scary but Ruthie's grounded approach shows the importance of leadership in guiding her company to the next level.

Social Entrepreneur and Inspirational Training Coach, Andrea Campbell of London, UK talks in this podcast about how to spot the opportunity in your adversity.  Andrea is an inspiration to women facing life challenges and we can all learn from Andrea's fighting spirit and inventive mind.

Global Executive, Leadership & Career Coach, Speaker and Consultant, Kristen Harcourt weighs in on how to stop the busy "hustle" and become more intentional in your business and life.  Kristen  talks about recognizing self sabotaging behaviours and how to slay them.  It's not about "hustle", because "hustle" can cause you anxiety and it really starts with 'being' and not 'doing'....we are human beings not human 'doings'!  Kristen recommends taking a step back getting grounded and centered and then take action.

We all have intuition.  It is natural.  It is a spiderweb of energy.  The secret that our podcast guest, Leanne Babcock shares is we all have the ability to pick up the energy in the surroundings of our environment.  We all need to pay attention to our intuition and develop it.

Our podcast guest is Anne Day, President of Company of Women and Full Circle Publishing.  Anne shares how important it is for new entrepreneurs to seek their own trusted tribe  so they are not alone.  Entrepreneurship is not always easy and Anne explains how she started Company of Women back in 2003 as a way to meet up and connect with other women entrepreneurs.  To-day Company of Women is one of the most respected organizations in southern Ontario for women entrepreneurs to learn and grow.              

Our podcast guest, Carol Schulte has led the BRAV life herself.  Carol's latest personal goal was climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.  But does it mean for all of us?  How does living a brave life contribute to living a full life?  Carol gives female entrepreneurs key strategies to be their bravest in work and in life.  Do you want to be BRAV today?  Tune in to our podcast to learn more from our international keynote speaker, Carol Schulte.