It’s just us besties again today and we’re catching up on all the bestie chat, from potty training to uninvited trash rats and everything in between! We’re checking in on what’s going on in our businesses this summer before jumping into bestie banter. If you’re looking for new shows to binge or a hack for traveling with babies, we’ve got you covered!

Interested in rolling an ad for your business in our episodes? Send us an email to [email protected] and we can chat about it!

Today’s Banter Includes: 

• Rebecca’s new house update 
• Tackling potty training
• The struggle of postpartum hair loss
• What shows we’re loving right now
• Mom activities that should be considered Olympic sports
• The snack hack that’s saving our sanity 
• What we’ve noticed by cutting out social media 
• Why Lauren is loving the Trolls soundtrack
• What’s the big deal about dresses with pockets?
• The trash rat that’s triggering Rebecca
• Business Banter: How Lauren is working around her own schedule and a hiring update and how moving has impacted Rebecca’s goals this summer
• Bestie Banter: gotta gab about it, what’s saving our lives right now, little luxuries, unpopular opinions, & blood boilers

Links You Might Be Looking For:

• Rebecca's Instagram: @themomfluencer
• Lauren's Instagram: @counselorclique
• Rebecca's Amazon Storefront
• Lauren's Amazon Storefront
• Barefaced Tinted Protection SPF 50+

It’s just us besties today and we are sharing our quarter 2 business updates before diving into a whole lot of bestie banter! Tune in for our current blood boilers, unpopular opinions, and millennial memories. Plus we’re sharing our lifesavers that are helping us get through this summer!

Interested in rolling an ad for your business in our episodes? Send us an email to [email protected] and we can chat about it!

Today’s Banter Includes: 

• Why we don’t like Visa gift cards
• The frustrations that come with building a new house
• Daily Time Hop therapy
• The importance of having friends nearby
• How meal swaps and responsibility charts are going to help us get through the summer
• Our unfiltered thoughts on chickens and stopping to pick up animals 
• Business Banter includes: How Lauren is balancing business and motherhood and why Rebecca is revamping her course.
• Bestie Banter includes: Blood boilers, 30 second therapy, our current lifesavers, unpopular opinions, and millennial memories

Links You Might Be Looking For:

• Rebecca's Instagram: @themomfluencer
• Lauren's Instagram: @counselorclique
• Rebecca's Amazon Storefront
• Lauren's Amazon Storefront
• Made for People by Justin Whitmel Earley
• The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
• Risen Motherhood podcast episode: “A Big Announcement from Risen Motherhood”
• Naptime Kitchen's Responsibilities Chart

We are so excited to have someone we are so grateful for on the Bestie Business Banter podcast! Kacie Barnes is a registered dietitian nutritionist, mom of 2, and is the mama behind Mama Knows Nutrition on Instagram where she shares low-stress nutrition tips and hacks for littles and tips for picky eating. 

Kacie is chatting with us about how she got started with Mama Knows Nutrition, how she balances family and business, and how she handles the negative comments on social media. Plus, you’ll hear our recent mom fails and what’s saving our lives right now.

Today’s Banter Includes: 

• Handling picky eating with littles
• How a blog turned into a business
• Knowing what feels good for you in your business 
• The inconsistency of blueberries
• Prioritizing a work-life balance
• Accepting help when it’s offered
• Our recent mom fails
• Business Banter: Why Kacie started Mama Knows Nutrition, handling online criticism, and why she doesn’t want to grow a huge business
• Bestie Banter: 30-second therapy, what’s saving our lives right now, and mom fails of the week

Links You Might Be Looking For:

• Kacie's website 
• Kacie's Instagram: @mamaknowsnutrition 
• Kacie's TikTok:@mamaknowsnutrition
• Rebecca's Instagram: @themomfluencer
• Lauren's Instagram: @counselorclique
• Rebecca's Amazon Storefront
• Lauren's Amazon Storefront

We absolutely love having business owners we love on the pod! So today, we're we have Lindsey Myers of Created Colorful joining us and we are so excited to chat!

Lindsey Myers is a virtual color analyst who was looking for a way to feel more confident after having her second baby. She came across color analysis, did a deep dive to learn everything she could about it, and was able to turn it into an incredibly successful business.

In this episode, you'll hear all the details behind how Created Colorful got started and how it's grown, our thoughts on owning guinea pigs, 90s music nostalgia, and more!

Highlights From Today's Banter:

• Feeling confident postpartum
• How Lindsey got started in color analysis
• Moving to New York
• Struggles of accidental entrepreneurs
• Looking back on our fashion choices
• Guinea Pigs in New York
• Reminiscing on 90s and early 2000s music
• Middle school and high school dances
• Business Banter includes: How Lindsey started color analysis as a creative outlet postpartum and what her business looks like now
• Bestie Banter includes: rodents as pets, our mom's fashion growing up, and millennial nostalgia

Links You Might Be Looking For:

• The Created Colorful website
• Lindsey's Instagram: @createdcolorful
• $20 off with Lauren’s Code: HSCOUNSELOR
• $20 with Rebecca’s Code: MOMFLUENCED
• Rebecca's Instagram: @themomfluencer
• Lauren's Instagram: @counselorclique
• Rebecca's Amazon Storefront
• Lauren's Amazon Storefront

It’s been a few months, but we’re back! In case you haven’t noticed, we’re a little all over the place with our recording schedule. But Lauren has a newborn, so life is a bit unpredictable right now! We're pumped to bring you this new “just besties” episode where we’ll give you all the updates among other things, including an introduction to two new segments. And don't worry, there will be blood boilers!

Interested in rolling an ad for your business in our episodes? Send us an email to [email protected] and we can chat about it!

Today’s Banter Includes: 

• Postpartum sucks our brain cells
• Micro-decisions are draining
• The challenges of staying in touch with core friend groups during this season
• Parenting feels hard because it is
• The joy of having events planned to look forward to
• Is The Masters worth the hype?
• Our curly girl hair journey
• Business Banter: Lauren’s transition back into work after maternity leave and Rebecca’s status after finishing her new Chemistry curriculum
• Bestie Banter: blood boilers, 30-second therapy, what’s saving our lives right now, little luxuries, unpopular opinions, journeys, & gotta gab about

Links You Might Be Looking For:

• Rebecca's Instagram: @themomfluencer
• Lauren's Instagram: @counselorclique
• Rebecca's Amazon Storefront
• Lauren's Amazon Storefront
• Beach Reads and Bubbly Insta: @beachreadsandbubbly
• Rebecca's GoodReads account

We're baaaack! It’s our first episode of 2024 AND at the time this is airing, Lauren has just had her third baby girl! 

It’s just us besties today. We’re talking through some business highlights (and possible regrets) of 2023 before jumping into bestie banter. Most importantly, if you've been wondering where in the world people buy underwear they love, we have answers for you today. 

With Lauren on maternity leave, who knows when we’ll be back again, so stay tuned!

Today’s Banter:

• Wrapping up 2023
• A PSA to show your face on Christmas cards!
• We’ve got some issues with Old Navy super cash
• Hot tip: wrap presents at the kitchen counter
• Don’t sleep on smoothies
• Business Banter includes: what went well in 2023, what we’re proud of, business regrets, and 2024 goals
• Bestie banter includes: blood boilers, what’s saving our lives right now, mom fail of the week, questions that need answers, what we’ve “decided once” on

Links You May Be Looking For:

• Rebecca's Instagram: @themomfluencer
• Lauren's Instagram: @counselorclique
• Rebecca's Amazon Storefront
• Lauren's Amazon Storefront
• Rebecca’s Created Colorful affiliate link to use with code MOMFLUENCED
• Lauren’s Created Colorful affiliate link to use with code HSCOUNSELOR
• Least sexy but most comfy Amazon underwear
• Set up your Facebook ads consult call with Numbers Drive!
• Leave us your review on Apple Podcasts

We all have our favorite influencers online and today’s guest, Val, is someone that we love to follow. Not only is she so funny, but she’s super authentic in what she recommends and shares with her audience.

Val has a background in journalism and digital marketing, which are skills that she’s carried over to her current business. She started a motherhood blog in 2015, which over the years progressed into her brand today, Lovely Lucky Life.

In today’s episode, we’re asking Val all the questions we want to know about the influencer life. She shares how she makes money online, boundaries she sets between work and family, celebrations from her business journey, and more.

Today's Banter:

• Big emotions with our three-nagers
• Let’s not only live for vacations
• Doing more of what’s important
• Do we really need to post matching family PJ pictures?
• Lauren’s shocking opinion of Thanksgiving food
• Don’t hate on Taylor Swift!
• Business Banter includes: Val’s business origin story, when she started landing brand deals, pressures and challenges that come with social media, her team, and more.
• Bestie Banter includes: blood boilers, 30-second therapy, what’s saving our lives right now, and unpopular opinions

Links You May Be Looking For:

• Rebecca's Instagram: @themomfluencer
• Lauren's Instagram: @counselorclique
• Rebecca's Amazon Storefront
• Lauren's Amazon Storefront
• Set up your Facebook ads consult call with Numbers Drive!
• Lovely Lucky Life website
• Val's Instagram: @lovelyluckylife
• Gift Tracker
• Leave us your review on Apple Podcasts

It’s just us besties today! Join us as we catch up on all the bestie chat, from reality TV to bra and underwear shopping, and beyond. Oh and we have a new segment inspired by the one and only Kendra Adachi, aka, The Lazy Genius! 

Then we’ll squeeze in a little business talk as we share what some of our best business deicions have been over the years. If you love listening to this podcast and feel like you want to jump right into the conversation, it’s time for YOU to write your reivew on Apple Podcasts!!

Highlights From Today’s Banter:

• Tip culture
• Old Navy shipping and returns policies need to change
• The 9:00 pm - 6:00 am sleep schedule
• Mini quiches are back at Costco!
• The Bachelor franchise 
• Where are we buying underwear?
• Bestie Banter includes: blood boilers, what’s saving our lives right now, little luxuries, unpopular opinion, questions that need answers 
• Business Banter includes:  our best business decisions

Links You May Be Looking For:

• Rebecca's Instagram: @themomfluencer
• Lauren's Instagram: @counselorclique
• Rebecca's Amazon Storefront
• Lauren's Amazon Storefront
• Set up your Facebook ads consult call with Numbers Drive!
• Leave us your review on Apple Podcasts

We love featuring guests on the pod who have all different types of businesses, and today is no exception. We’re welcoming Courtney Malone of Courtney Malone Photography. 

Courtney Malone is a lifestyle family, newborn, and portrait photographer based in Greenville, SC. Her own journey into motherhood inspires her work and dedication to documenting the beauty of family.

We’re switching things up by starting with business banter and ending with bestie banter. Inside the episode, you’ll hear all the details of how Courtney Malone Photography came to be, our true feelings about Halloween decorations, Spice Girl nostalgia, and so much more! 

Highlights From Today’s Banter:

• Outsourcing personal tasks
• What business “regrets” have taught Courtney
• Taking action and doing the ugly work
• Excessive Halloween decorations
• Which Spice Girl were you?
• Mean Girl quotes that will always live on
• Business Banter includes: how Courtney’s side hustle turned into a full-time business, what goes into pricing her services and digital products, and what her work week looks like
• Bestie Banter includes: unpopular opions, millenial memories, and mom fails

Links You May Be Looking For:

• Rebecca's Instagram: @themomfluencer
• Lauren's Instagram: @counselorclique
• Rebecca's Amazon Storefront
• Lauren's Amazon Storefront
• Website: Courtney Malone Photography
• Courtney’s Instagram: @courtneymalonephoto
• Set up your Facebook ads consult call with Numbers Drive!

Who else is holding on to their skinny jeans for dear life?! Some of us over here aren’t ready to give them up, including today's guest, Sara Whittaker of Podcasting for Educators.

We’re getting into all the millennial memories - emo music, burning the perfect CD, TRL, choreographed dances…the list goes on. Plus, you’ll hear how Sara went from a classroom teacher to virtual assistant to podcast manager.

Sara Whittaker is a teacher turned podcast strategist. She helps educators leverage the power of podcasting in order to scale their business and connect with their audience. Sara is also the host of the podcast, Podcasting for Educators, where she shares weekly tips on how to start, manage, and grow a podcast.

Today's Banter:

• Finding the PERFECT water bottle
• The battlefield that is the Aldie egg section
• The way that songs hit back in the day (and the memories that still come back when we hear them)
• Exploiting our family computers to viruses via Limewire
• Can we get a pulse check on Brittany Spears?
• Rebecca gets broken up with before prom
• Bestie Banter includes: blood boilers, little luxuries, and millennial memories
• Business Banter: Transitioning from teaching to entrepreneurship, niching down to a specific client, growing a team, and more

Links You May Be Looking For:

• Rebecca's Instagram: @themomfluencer
• Lauren's Instagram: @counselorclique
• Rebecca's Amazon Storefront
• Lauren's Amazon Storefront
• $20 off your first Nuuly box!
• Set up your Facebook ads consult call with Numbers Drive!
• Sara’s Instagram: @podcastingforeducators
• PFE website
• Podcasting for Educators podcast
• Angsty Millennial Mom Music
• Pre-Prom Pump Up Playlist
• Gel eye patches
• Owala water bottle
• The Podcasting for Educators Prep-School - use code BESTIE for $50 off!
• The Live Free Academy - start your freelance business!
• Read about the Trader Joes Fertile eggs (yes, it's true!)