Being Boss: Mindset, Habits, Tactics, and Lifestyle for Creative Entrepreneurs

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Being Boss is a podcast for creative entrepreneurs, freelancers, and side-hustlers, whether you're wanting to quit your day job or have been your own boss for a while now. Authors and "business besties" Emily Thompson and Kathleen Shannon dig into the mindset, habits, routines, boundaries, branding, marketing tactics, business strategies, systems, and processes that help you make money doing what you love. Join us as we interview bosses such as Brené Brown, Brooke Castillo, Marie Forleo, Ramit Sethi, Danielle LaPorte, Chalene Johnson, Mike Michalowicz of Profit First, Melissa Hartwig of Whole30, and more! Subscribe, rate, and review wherever you listen to good podcasts.

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#263 - Simplifying Your Bus...

07.20.2021

Running a business that generates revenue for years to come requires a strong yet simple business model. When a creative business has too many offers in place or cannot operate effectively, valuable time and resources get wasted. In this episode, ...

Being Boss: Mindset, Habits, Tactics, and Lifestyle for Creative Entrepreneurs episodes:

07.20.2021 #263 - Simplifying Your Business Model with Tara McMullin Running a business that generates revenue for years to come requires a strong yet simple business model. When a creative business has too many offers in place or cannot operate effectively, valuable time and resources get wasted. In this episode, ...
07.06.2021 #262 - Taking Time Off as a Business Owner with Dana Kaye While boss life allows the benefits of personal freedom, deciding when and how to take a vacation from your business can be challenging. In this episode, Dana Kaye of Kaye Publicity, Inc. shares how she learned to balance responsibility and ...
06.22.2021 #261 - Planning a Successful Rebrand with Gabrielle Blades What is a rebrand? When is it time for rebranding and company change? How can your business launch a rebrand that lasts? Figuring out a rebrand strategy is essential, but so is the meaning behind it. In this episode, Emily ...
06.08.2021 #260 - Selling with Testimonials with Eman Ismail As a creative entrepreneur or small business owner, making the sale can be the most intimidating part of the job. But with one addition to your process, it can be a whole lot easier. That addition is client testimonials. In ...
05.25.2021 #259 - Building Your Business to Scale with Alicia Butler Pierre Building a strong business is likely a high priority for you, whether you're a solopreneur or an entrepreneur looking to scale. You want your business operations to run efficiently and effectively so you can be ready to grow. But what ...
05.11.2021 #258 - 4 Mindset Shifts Entrepreneurs Must Make to Achieve Success When it comes to pursuing the path of an entrepreneur, the positions that we put ourselves in as decision-makers, creators, community leaders and change-makers can be a breeding ground for mindset challenges. Finding success requires business mindset shifts and having ...
04.27.2021 #257 - Project Management and Building Systems for Creatives and Freelancers with Mary Williams Project management is an important skillset for entrepreneurs – it's the work that will allow you to take a big idea and turn it into reality. But as business owners in the modern age, we tend to think of project ...
04.13.2021 #256 - E + K: How to Improve Focus as a Multi-Passionate Creative Kathleen Shannon joins to share a conversation on handling distractions and finding focus as a multi-passionate creative. From dealing with shiny object syndrome to narrowing in on your core genius and dedicating yourself to becoming great at something, we discuss ...
03.30.2021 #255 - Manifesting Money with Pamela Chen Expand your capacity for success and manifest the money you want to make with your business. In this episode, join in to hear from Pamela Chen, a spiritual entrepreneur who's talking about manifesting, and not the watered-down platitudes of practicing ...
03.16.2021 #254 - How to Build a Life that Supports Your Business with Megan Flatt Most business owners want to build their business to support their life, crafting the ideal work/life balance. But as we go along this entrepreneurial journey, things often begin revolving entirely around our work. In this episode, join Emily and her ...
03.02.2021 #253 - Being an Influencer with Vivian Kaye To explore the topic of influence and how we, as business owners, wield influence in our life and work, Vivian Kaye returns to give a look inside how to stay authentic when you have attention of tens of thousands of ...
02.16.2021 #252 - How to Grow Your Business Like a Boss with Autumn Witt Boyd Our go-to boss lawyer, Autumn Witt Boyd, rejoins the podcast today to talk about growing your business. She goes into detail about all of the methods and tactics that she used herself to expand her own business over the past ...
02.02.2021 #251 - How to Cultivate Hobbies as a Creative Entrepreneur When you're a creative, there's often a whole heap of overlap between your work and what you do for fun. But making time for doing things that you enjoy that have NOTHING to do with work is important, even if ...
01.19.2021 #250 - Being a Multi-Passionate Creative Entrepreneur with D'ana Joi Spencer and Dana Kaye Two multi-passionate creatives, D'ana Joi Spencer and Dana Kaye, join Emily in a conversation that navigates through the definition of being a multi-passionate creative entrepreneur, whether or not you should be focusing your endeavors, and the pros and cons of ...
01.05.2021 #249 - 7 Habits of a Successful CEO 2020 did a number on our basic structures: our boundaries, habits, and routines that we've been creating over the years, which means that now is the perfect time to get back to the basics. To help you start making that ...
12.22.2020 #248 - What Worked in 2020 with Tara McMullin Surely 2020 wasn’t ALL bad, right? Podcast guest regular Tara McMullin joins Emily to talk about what worked in 2020, what the year taught us about business and what we can carry into 2021, backing away from goal setting, and ...
12.08.2020 #247 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Check-In with Erica Courdae Erica Courdae joins Emily to discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion in business in the six months following the murder of George Floyd. They also check-in on the DEI commitments made by businesses, the difference between being explicit and implicit with ...
11.24.2020 #246 - Time Management for Business Owners According to our annual listener survey, year after year, time management is the biggest struggle for bosses. In a year where all of the rules of normal business operations have been thrown out the window, Emily is revisiting what it ...
11.10.2020 #245 - Get + Give Support Through Leadership with Sally Netherwood Leadership expert Sally Netherwood joins the show today to talk about how business owners can give and receive new levels of support by focusing on being leaders. Sally and Emily discuss how leadership fits into the Being Boss mantra, how ...
10.27.2020 #244 - Astrology, Luck, and Divine Timing in Business with Mecca Woods Mecca Woods joins Emily to explore the vast world of astrology and discern the most important pieces for using it to plan for business. Recorded live at the Gathering: Guided by Intuition online event. Get full show notes for this ...
10.13.2020 #243 - E+K: Build Your Business with Intuition + Magic A special, surprise guest joins Emily as she gives an inside look at how and when she used her intuition and – in some cases – magic to grow Indie Shopography, Being Boss, and Almanac Supply Co. Get full show ...
09.29.2020 #242 - Edit Your Words and Your Brand with Tasha Harrison + Tara Street Tara Street and Tasha Harrison join the podcast today to talk about editing... your words, your brand, your offering... and why you need to embrace the ever-evolving nature of growing as a human and as a business. Get full show ...
09.15.2020 #241 - Own Who You Are with Michelle Khouri Michelle Khouri is back again, this time to talk with Emily about the importance of sharing your story, why own who you are, and how you can let your story fuel your business. Get full show notes for this episode ...
09.01.2020 #240 - How to Thrive When You Work Alone In this all new era of Being Boss, Emily is all alone and she's focused on making sure she continues to thrive. She's going over how to control your negative self-talk, setting yourself up for success, creating proof of your ...
08.18.2020 #239 - PART 2: The Future of Being Boss In this final part of the biggest conversation we've ever shared at Being Boss, Michelle Khouri wraps up her interview of Emily and Kathleen by covering how they'll share content that they created together, what support systems they leaned on ...
08.04.2020 #238 - PART 1: The Being Boss Partnership In this landmark Being Boss episode, Emily and Kathleen are interviewed by Michelle Khouri about their burnout and how it led Kathleen to make the decision to sell her ownership stake of Being Boss. Listen to Part 2 of this ...
07.21.2020 #237 - Authenticity in Marketing with Vivian Kaye of KinkyCurlyYaki Live from the "Make Time to Shine" Being Boss Conference, Vivian Kaye of KinkyCurlyYaki joins Emily and Kathleen to explore the topics of personal branding and marketing with authenticity. The three of them also talk about finding gaps in the ...
07.07.2020 #236 - Make Time to Shine Emily is taking this special episode to recap the wisdom that was dropped during the virtual Being Boss Conference back in April. You’ll hear from Tara McMullin on why you should still promote your business in uncertain times, Autumn Witt ...
06.30.2020 #235 - Creating a Business Plan How do you make sure that the business you start will be everything you want it to be? A business plan can help put you on the right path. Being Boss has partnered with Freshbooks to create a Business Plan ...
06.23.2020 #234 - The Power of Conversation Live from the "Make Time to Shine" Being Boss Conference, Emily and Kathleen discuss the most powerful tool of Being Boss: conversation. They dive into ways in which conversation can elevate creativity and how to have conversations with yourself, your ...
06.16.2020 #233 - Find Your Business Bestie with Megan Flatt Connections are an important part of growing as a business owner, so Emily's business bestie Megan Flatt is on this episode to talk about networking, how to share resources and knowledge, recognizing when relationships aren't a good fit, and how ...
06.09.2020 #232 - Building a Mindful + Responsible Business Business owners don't always know how to react to the world around us, so Emily is diving into the steps that you can take to build a mindful and responsible business, touching on the themes of values, how to uncover ...
05.26.2020 #231 - Business as Creative Expression with Maia Toll of Herbiary Author and business owner Maia Toll joins us today to talk about using your business as an outlet for your creative expression, how to use intuition in your business, and how you can stay motivated for the long haul. Maia ...
05.12.2020 #230 - Being a Creative Putting aside the strict business talk, Emily and Kathleen discuss the importance of being a creative, the difference between a creative process and a business process, what being creative actually looks like, cooking, and how to keep going when you ...
04.28.2020 #229 - Healthy Money Habits with Danetha Doe Finance expert Danetha Doe joins Emily in this episode to talk about addressing your money stories, combating scarcity mindset, tips for building a solid financial foundation, how the shifting economy is changing our relationships with money, and so much more. ...
04.14.2020 #228 - Sustainable Business Practices Ebbs and flows are inevitable, so having sustainable business practices is key for long-term success. Kathleen joins Emily today to talk about those basic practices, which include starting small and bootstrapping, leveraging what you already have, marketing tactics, not over-committing ...
04.07.2020 #227 - Q+A Part 2: Scaling, Seasons, and Sales Funnels Emily recently hosted a Q&A; session in the Being Boss Community, and now we're publishing her answers in a two-part series. In this second episode, Emily answers questions about scaling a business based on highly personalized services, dealing with the ...
03.31.2020 #226 - Q+A Part 1: Contractors, Company Culture, and Cold Calls Emily recently hosted a Q&A; session in the Being Boss Community, and now we're publishing her answers in a two-part series. In this first episode, Emily tackles navigating uneasy feelings around onboarding a contractor into your top-secret processes, how to ...
03.25.2020 Make Time to Shine: A Virtual Conference by Being Boss The Being Boss Conference is a 3-day virtual conference for business owners, creatives, and entrepreneurs filled with speaker sessions, panels, live podcast recordings, creative workshops, and more. All enjoyed from the comfort and safety of your own home! Find out ...
03.17.2020 #225 - Pandemic ready? Coronavirus and Your Business In this special episode, Emily and Kathleen take some time to talk about the Coronavirus pandemic, the lessons you can learn from it, the opportunities you can find in it as a creative business owners, and our top tips for ...
03.03.2020 #224 - Brand Strategies for Growing Your Business Kathleen joins Emily today to discuss the ever-evolving nature of business branding, defining what exactly branding is, what to do with your brand when your business becomes more complex, and what to do when your ideas outgrow the business and ...
02.18.2020 #223 - Social Media Marketing for Online and Local Business with Ellen Matis Boss friend Ellen Matis joins Emily in this episode to talk about creating boundaries for social media, the impact that local community involvement can have on your life and business, and why it's important to invest in your community and ...
02.04.2020 #222 - Productivity Hacks Being productive can be a challenge. In fact, a majority of Being Boss subscribers admit that time management is their biggest struggle. Emily and Kathleen team up in this episode to share their tips, resources, and hacks they use to ...
01.21.2020 #221 - Plan a Happy Life with Stephanie Fleming of Happy Planner A happy life doesn’t just fall in your lap, so we’ve brought in Stephanie Fleming of Happy Planner to talk about how to plan out your happy life. We’re also talking about navigating pivotal life moments, cultivating happiness and creative ...
01.07.2020 #220 - Plan Out Your Year with 20/20 Vision Whether it's once a quarter or once a year, there's never a bad time to do some business planning. To get 2020 off to a great start, Emily and Kathleen discuss the different methods for creating a plan, what types ...
12.10.2019 #219 - Burnout + Buyout This time last year, Emily and Kathleen felt burnout that prompted them to scale back their workload. One year removed from that fatigue, they're looking back at what caused the burnout and how it affected their businesses, personal health, and ...
11.19.2019 NOW OPEN: Being Boss Conference and Community After years of testing and changing, chatting with you, listening to you, traveling with you, and growing with you, we’re showing up for the next phase of Being Boss, and… it’s all about you. Today, we have two big announcements! ...
11.12.2019 #218 - Gratitude Practices for Abundance Practicing gratitude is essential for being a boss, so Emily and Kathleen are using this episode to talk about why gratitude is so important, how and why to implement gratitude into your relationships, and practices for showing appreciation in your ...
10.08.2019 #217 - Your Wolfpack Friendships and connections are important when you're running a business, so Kathleen and Emily are taking some time to talk about cultivating a community, finding your wolfpack, nurturing relationships with business besties, and more. This episode is sponsored by Freshbooks ...
09.10.2019 #216 - Own Your Weird with Jason Zook Our long-time boss boyfriend, Jason Zook, is back on the podcast today to talk with us about the tangle of work + identity, the things you learn from sticking to your entrepreneur path, and owning your weird. This episode is ...

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