In today’s episode, Brooke speaks with Noemi who was a teen mom, college drop out but now she’s thriving with two 6 figure businesses from the comfort of her home. Her spouse recently retired and now they partnered in the businesses. She earns full time income working part time hours. When Noemi was little, she was in Girl Scouts and she hated selling and she didn’t want to be begging anyone for money. When TikTok came around, she knew she needed an online presence and it started out just for fun at the beginning of the pandemic and then she saw someone post about a day in the life of their business. She got the idea to do that about her own life in little clips. It forced her to get created on what she wanted to share. When her first business video exploded, it created an audience for her because people wanted to follow what she was saying.

In today’s episode, Brooke speaks with Cara Tyrrell, the founder of Core4Parenting. She started out in early childhood education and pivoted to create courses to help set up parents for success in raising school, world-ready kids. She has a Master’s degree in Education and knew it could take her different directions, but she started out in the classroom. She saw year after year that kids came to the classroom less and less ready to learn in every area of the classroom. They lacked social skills, emotional skills and how to control that to respond appropriately. She left the classroom prior to the pandemic and had a nudge that knew this problem started at home and happens between birth and 5 years old. She started creating the courses and curriculum. At the time she had this idea, she went to work as a nanny. She was using strategies that became her courses and saw them work. When the pandemic hit, she saw this as her sign to take her courses to the world.

In today’s episode, Brooke speaks with Jen Liddy, a former high school teacher who left the profession and became an entrepreneur. Today she is a Content Creation Specialist who helps people shift their exact right audience into their ideal clients. In the middle of her teaching career, she realized she was working really hard, was well educated, loved her job, and wasn’t making any money. She wondered what she was doing wrong. She left teaching in 2007 when her son was born and went on to become a college professor. During that time, phones were coming into the classroom and she felt less like an educator and more like someone policing a classroom. It wore her down and she realized she was always looking for an out. She experienced some resistance from her peers as she told them she was leaving education. She was told things like, “you’re just a teacher”, “what about your retirement.” She wants other teachers to know they are smart and creative and can do other things.

In today’s episode, Brooke speaks with David Bennett, the founder of The Metabolic Body Reset. He has mastered the short form video and has over 200k followers. David has not only grown his following but also a community to teach others how to grow their own short form business.

In today’s episode, Brooke speaks with Bob Sparkins, the Sales Marketing Manager at Leadpages. Bob is a former high school history teacher and he teaches business owners around the world how to leverage digital marketing to impact more people with less effort. Bob’s primary role is the public face of Leadpages by speaking on stages and panels in person and virtually. He supports people who want to share Leadpages with their audiences and the education piece is for their affiliates and future customers so they understand how to build a business online.

In today’s episode, Brooke speaks with Crunch Ranjani, a digital nomad since 2018. She is a conversion copywriter and content creator. She is a firm believer we need more diversity, equity and inclusion in our communities. Today, she is located in Singapore where she is originally from. She has a residence in Mexico and says it’s a great place for digital nomads.

Listen as Brooke speaks with Jackie Sunga, a certified master marketer. She has grown her own business to surpass six figures in one year. Jackie is a former educator and in 2017 a music colleague was following her on Instagram and told her she was good at social media and asked her to manage her nonprofit social media. Jackie knew she wanted experience in the digital marketing world and saw this opportunity as her way in. Jackie’s sister saw this and told her email marketing is more effective than social media marketing. This motivated Jackie to research and learn copywriting on her own. She realized how important a skill this was. Fast forward a few years and her husband graduated from medical school in 2020 and she saw this as her opportunity to work full time for herself. That summer she used Instagram to create content and a therapist found one of her reels and reached out to Jackie to help write emails for her course. She had a ROI 7x over. This confirmed to Jackie that she found her niche and pursued this full time.

In today’s episode, Brooke speaks with Hani Anis, founder of Anis Collections and the marketing company Kahani Digital. She started her first company in 2017 while she was still in college at the age of 21. She was doing marketing in corporate investment banking and decided to take 6 months off and work on Anis Collections. Fast forward to 2020, when she got a VC job in corporate marketing. She was approached during Covid by her friends in the freelancing spaces. In Sept/Oct of 2020, the world started working again and she had a corporate job, a company and freelance projects. She knew she didn’t have that much time on her hands. She sat down during the holidays with her family and expressed her struggles and she decided she liked the freelance, small business route. She decided to resign from her corporate job. With Kahani, she had all the work coming in but no name, no branding, no employees. She knew this wasn’t what she planned for. It goes to show that starting a business can go an untraditional route. She was able to get traction by word of mouth.

In today’s episode, Brooke speaks with Cassandra Rosa, a business coaching and award winning speaker and author of Now What: Create the Clarity to Achieve Your Dreams. She also hosts the podcast called Clarity Conversations. Cassandra knew she wanted to make a difference in the world from a very young age. She pursued a degree in psychology and in the middle of it, she did volunteer work in Africa and fell in love with it. When she returned from her trip, she felt like she needed to do things the mainstream way but kept having feelings of doing more. After about 6 months, she decided to follow her dreams and left corporate and worked on personal development. She felt like this is the mentorship she wanted to do in her life. She launched her business in 2019 and in 6 months, she left her full time job and started traveling to mentor people.