In Episode #34 of BusyBee Refinishing with MelDidItHerself, I walk you through the five biggest lessons I’ve learned so far in my furniture painting and refinishing business– however, these lessons are relevant to entrepreneurs and business owners in any industry! Tune in to hear my lessons learned on staying organized and well-planned, focusing on my learning and development, paying attention to the  numbers, ensuring I keep good customer service and reaching past what feels comfortable and easy. If you are self-employed, run your own business or are hoping to do so one day, you won’t want to miss this episode.

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In Episode #33 of Busybee Refinishing with MelDidItHerself, I give you an overview of everything you need to know about mineral paint. If you have ever wondered: 

then this episode is for you! I walk you through everything you need to know about mineral paint when you're painting your furniture flips. I discuss my favourite brand, Fusion Mineral Paint, and provide a promo code for you to try out as well as recommending my favourite colours. 

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In Episode #32 of Busybee Refinishing with MelDidItHerself, I discuss something I hope everyone is doing as we start a new year: setting expectations for themselves & their businesses. Since we have a clean slate to start from, setting up your expectations and checking yourself and your outputs, your perspective, and your thoughts surrounding your goals and intentions is super important. We’ll discuss being ambitious but not shaming ourselves, setting up simple systems to help us, avoiding the pesky comparison game and revisiting these expectations and goals often. Let’s make 2023 the best year yet!

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In Episode #31 of BusyBee Refinishing with MelDidItHerself, I take a beat to look back on the year that was 2022– a pretty crazy one for me and my business! In the spirit of transparency, I dive into the analytics to give you an idea of the back end of my business and data that I track including social media following, my email list, and milestones of things I started and accomplished throughout the year.

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In Episode #30 of Busybee Refinishing with MelDidItHerself, I provide strategies for finding a way to get your butt into the workshop to work on your furniture makeovers, whatever your excuse is! Whether you’re too busy with other life commitments, have lost your motivation to push your pieces forward, keep forgetting to get out there to work on your projects or are feeling low on yourself and your work because you can’t keep up with the outputs you’re seeing from other creators online, I’ve got a solution for you! With these mindset shifts, action plans and approaches to ensuring you’re optimizing whatever time you have in your day or week, you will find yourself completing more projects and enjoying the process while you’re at it.

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In Episode #29 of BusyBee Refinishing with MelDidItHerself, I walk you through 5 ways to make offering custom furniture refinishing services easier in your furniture flipping business! These tools and approaches to custom furniture makeover projects will save you time and effort and keep you organized in your business so you can spend more time doing what you love- upcycling furniture!

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In Episode #28 of BusyBee Refinishing with MelDidItHerself, I dive into part 2 of my approach to goal setting– in your personal life, business, or wherever else you want to set some intentions and see some improvement for 2023. I don’t necessarily set “new year’s resolutions”, rather I intentionally set goals and plan for the new year in order to break habits that are no longer serving me, maintain things that have been working for me, and set up new systems in my life in order to grow and improve. These approaches to goal setting will ensure you avoid mistakes made in the past, help you get clear on your vision for the year, and keep these goals top of mind so you don’t fall off after a month into the new year. I hope it helps!!

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In Episode #27 of Busybee Refinishing with MelDidItHerself, I dive into my approach to setting goals for the new year that I have followed for the last 7 years. This approach helped me make more intentional, holistic goals for myself and next week’s part 2 episode will be all about how we will ensure we achieve those results without holding ourselves back from success. If you are looking for a way to get accountable and consistent with moving towards your new year’s resolution in 2023, then check out this goal setting method.

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In Episode #26 of Busybee Refinishing with MelDidItHerself, I am laying out the best holiday gift guide for the furniture painter and refinisher in your life– and if that refinisher is you, then get ready to stock up your Holiday Wishlist! If you have ever wondered what are good gifts to give someone who does furniture refurbishing, furniture makeovers, furniture flipping and furniture painting, you will be able to find a gift from this list that will save them time, energy, or money during the process of transforming their furniture pieces. These are items that range in price from stocking stuffers to great gifts to go in on with a group of friends, and are items that someone may not splurge on for themself but would absolutely get great use out of.

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In Episode #25 of Busybee Refinishing with MelDidItHerself, I outline some of the many ways you can add a fun pop of creativity to your furniture makeovers by giving some lovin’ to the drawers of your furniture flips. This is a large part of the real estate of your refinished furniture and it often goes under-addressed or forgotten altogether, so this episode reviews some of your options: adding furniture salve to your furniture drawers, how to add a drawer liner and where to get drawer liners for your furniture makeovers, and different options for adding a stencil to the drawers of your painted pieces. If you have ever wondered “how do I make my furniture makeovers stand out against the competition” or “what would be an unexpected creative pop to add to my upcycled furniture”, this episode is for you!

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