Annika Chaloff is the lady behind Married & Bright, a line of handmade lingerie designed to make women feel wonderful about their bodies and themselves. Annika currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Alex, and hyper puppy, Bucket. When she's not hand crafting undies in her home studio, she enjoys baking, throwing parties, and drinking rosé.success for Annika is:"Doing something with meaning. Having a life with purpose...I like making things that make other people happy, they make people feel good."
Things we chat about with Annika on this episode:

2014, deciding to shut down her business Expect
how she then opened an etsy shop on a whim
Why her word for 2016 is Purpose
why hiring a model made her nervous
why she chose chutzpah as one of her characteristics
her undying love for murder stories
the book The devil in the White City
the book 7 habits of highly effective people
Why going to therapy is the best non-financial decision she has made


101: Annika Chaloff, Designer + Maker

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Kara is the owner and creator of Kara’s Vineyard Wedding, a handmade boutique that focuses on one-of-a-kind wedding decor such as custom place card holders and Premium DIY supplies. She is also the creator of the Wedding Planning Podcast. After graduating with degree in Mass Communications and English, Kara worked in financial planning, and saw success through the corporate lens of earning promotions & making money. She recognized her passion for entrepreneurship in 2011, & built her handmade business while “on-the-clock”. Two years later, the birth of her daughter was the push she needed to make the leap to self employment, and she hasn’t looked back! Kara treasures the ability to work for herself while providing a second income for her family, AND raising her two children full-time. She also loves spending time with family and friends, drinking wine, & reading US Weekly. In today’s episode Kara shares a definition of success we think so many of our listeners will appreciate and understand. “As long as my family has everything that we need and some of the things that we want I feel successful.” Kara goes into detail about what gave her the nudge to leave her full-time job and take her online shop from a side business to her family’s second income while staying at home with her young children.  She shares the steps she took to feel comfortable and confident about leaving her full-time job including financial financial goals to meet before she walked away from the corporate world! “I became compulsively driven to get this business grown to a point where I could leave that corporate job and have the freedom to be home full time with Stella” Kara also talks about how she had a major shift in her way of thinking.  She was constantly comparing herself to people who were still in the corporate world, or other WAHMs who had a different schedule/situation. She realized she need to stop comparing herself to others and focus on what she was doing. “Success isn’t about material things. It’s about being happy at the end of the day.”

153: Kara Lamerato, Wedding Planning Podcast, Summer Rebroadcast Series

Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for Danielle and I to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. For our summer rebroadcasting series we're sharing episode 66, FOMO, aka fear of missing out! p.s If you would be so kind as to leave us a review on iTunes, we would be forever appreciative.

152: FOMO, Summer Rebroadcast Series, Friday Coffee Talk

As part of our summer rebroadcast series we're sharing with you a few extra shots of fun with some of our 2016 guests! Hear never before questions with Jen Carrington, Jess Connolly, & Rach Wheatley. Listen to Jen Carrington's episode here. Jen Carrington is a content coach and creative mentor who helps purpose-driven creatives make things happen in their creative work and life on their own terms, in their own way, and by their own rules. Jen is based in Manchester, UK where she lives with my better half Alex and their two pesky cats, Marcy and Lila. Jen has a degree in social work, but after graduating she discovered her heart belonged in the online world of content strategy and creative coaching. When she’s not working with her game changing clients or behind the scenes on her business you’ll either find her lost in a good book, spending time with the people she love, or planning her next adventure and travels to come. Listen to Jess Connolly's episode here.  Jess Connolly is a gal passionate about communicating about Jesus. Whether that’s through writing, speaking, or having a coffee date – she loves spurring other women on and wants to leave her generation more in awe of God than she found it. She’s one of the co-founders of SheReadsTruth, the owner of Naptime Diaries, and the co-founder of The Influence Conference and Network. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina where her and her husband have planted Gospel Community Church. They’ve got four wild kiddos and an extroverted dog. Listen to Rach Wheatley's episode here.  Rach Wheatley is a Purpose & Productivity Coach for soulful entrepreneurial women looking to build more intention and meaning into the business they love. Rach is a proud mum and wife who juggles day care drop offs, collecting pretty things and getting sweaty via a range of fun/crazy fitness adventures. She thrives on hearing women’s stories and helping them create a new story for their future that it meaningful, peaceful and happy. Project: Breathe is home to her blog, coaching ad the Intention Setting Method. All of which are designed lovingly to help women to ease their overwhelm, gain clarity around their life and build the future they ache for. Rach’s unique style blends emotional support with practical tools leaving clients feeling empowered to move into a new phase of their lives.  

151: Extra Shots with Jen Carrington, Jess Connolly, & Rach Wheatley

Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about comparison. This is part of our summer rebroadcast series. We were looking back at our first episodes and realized there were some really good topics we wanted to share again. p.s. If you would be so kind as to leave us a review on iTunes, we would be forever appreciative.

150: Comparison, Summer Rebroadcast Series, Friday Coffee Talk

Kim is the creator and designer behind Daisy Faye Designs. Kim has always had a passion for fashion and anything creative and DFD allows her to bring together these two loves. Kim loves coming up with original ideas and combining unexpected fabrics and colors to create something beautiful. Kim graduated from the University of North Texas with a degree in Marketing and worked in retail management and merchandising after college. Six years ago, Kim took a sewing class and and fell in love - DFD was born. She started selling military aviation appliqués because she couldn't find the perfect gift to give her military friends who were having babies. "Those first customers is really what the business has been built on." In today's episode we chat with Kim about being a mom, wife, and small business owner. How she felt like she was working for nothing in her merchandising job because thanks to the military she was living in a smaller town that didn't have the growth she needed. She tells us how her current definition of success is doing the best she can with everything in her life. She knows that in the future, when her son goes to school full time, she will be able to spend more time focusing on DFD, but until then she is happy to focus on being a mom, wife, and then business owner {in that order}. "Success for me right now is doing the best I can with everything in my life, mom, wife, then business. For me being successful is balancing these things the best I can."

101: Annika Chaloff, Designer + Maker

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