Earn Your Happy

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Why Lite Pink is only using female investors
• How investing can make you big money
• Believing in your own dreams
• Educating others on investing

Resources:

• instagram.com/drinklitepink

Show Notes:

While raising capital for Lite Pink, I have made it a priority to only raise money with women investors. It’s so important to create the space for women to invest in other women, to learn about investing and participating in each others’ businesses. And it’s important that when you are building your business you stay true to your values and build it the right way instead of the fast way.

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Pursuing your interests
• Building up your business on the side
• How to know when to go all in and what to do when it’s time
• Staying organized when self-employed
• Getting comfortable with networking
• How to handle social media marketing

Resources:

• thebigkidproblems.com
• Instagram: @bigkidproblems

Show Notes:

Sarah Merrill is the kind of girlfriend who you can’t wait to hang out with again because she’s just so much fun. She’s the hilarious comedy writer and creator of “BigKidProblems,” where she pokes fun at the absurdities and struggles of growing up. She shares how she went about starting her blog and website, how she narrowed in on the parts she loved doing the most, and how she pivoted from running it on the side to going full time with it.

Question Highlights:

• Tell me all about BigKidProblems
• Why did you stay so long at a temporary job?
• What did you focus on to grow BigKidProblems?
• What would you say for someone who is working from home and needs to feel organized?
• How do you network when you’re not comfortable with it?
• What do you see people doing wrong on social media?

Guest Bio:

Sarah Merrill is the comedy writer and creator of "BigKidProblems," a wildly popular Instagram account turned Blog and Podcast all about the daily struggles of growing up and navigating through the adult world. From tiny apartments to living on tinier paychecks and (ugh) the dating, Sarah uses a mixture of wry wit, pop culture references, and relatable experience to connect to and help her half-million followers navigate through the ups and downs of contemporary adulting. Whether you are twenty-two or sixty-two, there is no use in fighting it; we all have Big Kid Problems.

Through her social media fame, Sarah has appeared three times on the Emmy Award-winning Steve Harvey Show and spoken at various conferences and Universities about growing a business through Social Media. A collection of her original jokes were published by Andrews McMeel in 2020. 

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• How being comfortable with uncertainty leads to success
• Surrendering to your circumstances
• Experiencing the feelings of the life that you want

Resources:

• instagram.com/drinklitepink

Show Notes:

I’m the kind of person who likes certainty. I can eat the same thing every day, I can do the same workouts, and take the same walks—even if I know that’s not great for me. There are of course benefits to having routines and habits, but when you start feeling like you can’t survive without those rituals, it can start to force you into a rut. If you’re feeling stuck or not creative enough, it could be that you just need to switch up the energy.

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Handling silent rejection or ghosting
• Having empathy
• Leaning in
• Expecting opportunities

Resources:

• instagram.com/drinklitepink

Show Notes:

Welcome back to Questionably Awesome! Today, Evans and I are going to be answering your questions around transitions and rejection.

Question #1:

@kylie_loran

How do you handle silent rejection? Like people stop talking or don't make an effort?

Question #2:

@marissa.hamon

How to face imposter syndrome when experiencing good transitions?

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Being productive in the right way
• Prioritizing what moves you forward
• Living and dying by your calendar
• Doing the things that give you energy
• Delegating effectively
• Saying “no” more often

Resources:

• fortheloveofmoney.com/free

Show Notes:

We always get questions about how we get so much done. Right now, we’re traveling on the road and we’re still showing up for business, for podcasts, for masterminds. Don’t get stuck comparing yourselves to us, though—we still fall short of our to-do lists and our goals for the day. But we still manage to do the most important things every day, and that’s the key. We’re going to outline what we do to make sure we’re getting the right things done to move our businesses and our lives forward.

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Building a business while living your life
• Prioritizing the actions that get you the most results
• Focus days and push days
• Hiring the right people for the right tasks
• Role players vs growth players

Resources:

• mauimastermind.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/davidfinkel

Show Notes:

You know that I am so into talking about business while also being able to preserve your life. If you have big dreams about business but you’re scared because you may not be able to manage being fulfilled and taking care of yourself, you have to listen to this conversation with David Finkel. As someone who has helped entrepreneurs and CEOs scale their businesses while simultaneously scaling back their involvement in the company, he is an expert on optimizing your business AND your life.

Question Highlights:

• How did you begin to focus on scaling businesses without sacrificing your life?
• How do you know what to take action on first?
• Can you talk about the importance of recharging?
• How to manage hiring people when it first feels like more work?

Guest Bio:

David Finkel is author of The Freedom Formula and co-author of, SCALE: 7 Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back (written with Priceline.com co-founder Jeff Hoffman), and one of the nation’s most respected business thinkers. A Wall Street Journal and Business Week bestselling author of 12 business books, David’s a regular columnist for Inc.com, FastCompany.com, and Forbes.com reaching over 1M readers each year.    

Over the past 20 years, David and the Maui coaching and advisor team have scaled and sold over $62 billion of businesses.       

Maui Mastermind helps business owners build companies they love owning again--for the value they create, the lives they touch, the profits they earn, the team they employ, and the freedom they enjoy.  Their clients have enjoyed an average annual growth rate five times higher than the average privately held company, while at the same time reducing their companies’ reliance on them as the owners by an average of 191% percent.

An ex-Olympic-level athlete turned business multi-millionaire, David and his wife Heather, and their three sons live a very simple life in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Believing that you can’t make a bad decision
• Why you shouldn’t regret your decisions
• The lessons you can learn from past decisions

Resources:

• instagram.com/drinklitepink

Show Notes:

Whenever we’re making decisions, we tend to get stuck on one big fear: Making the wrong decision. You have to train yourself to believe that you can’t make a wrong decision, as crazy as it sounds. You won’t always make perfect decisions, but looking back you can always find value in whatever decision you’ve made, so don’t put so much pressure on yourself to have the perfect outcome when you can’t control the outcome.

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Finding a middle ground in marriage
• Deciding what flaws you can accept and not fighting them
• Not overburdening your relationships
• Making peace with where people are after your transition

Resources:

• instagram.com/drinklitepink

Show Notes:

Welcome back to Questionably Awesome! Today, Evans and I are going to be answering your questions around transitions.

Question #1:

@amandaibarkley

Just got married, seriously, today! Evans and Lori, what is your best marriage advice?

Question #2:

@micknicknackpattywack

Do I have to leave behind those who don't want/wish to transition with me?

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Surrendering perfection
• Being adaptable
• Asking better questions
• Being patient and accepting

Resources:

• instagram.com/drinklitepink

Show Notes:

When you pack everything up to live on the road for a month, there’s a few things you quickly learn about yourself and the world. We’re visiting friends, doing some business, and seeing some friends. We’re going to share the lessons that we’ve learned while on the road and how they’re helping us in business and life.

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

• Figuring out why people behave the way they do
• Listening to your intuition
• The brand archetypes
• Finding your confidence
• Being multi-passionate

Resources:

• jenniferkem.com
• masterbrand.me/happy
• confidently.me
• instagram.com/jennifer.kem

Show Notes:

Jennifer Kem is all about confidence. She knows that confidence comes from clarity and knowing exactly what your brand and message are all about. Branding has helped me so much in my business, and there is no one better to learn it from than her. You’re going to learn so much from this conversation.

Question Highlights:

• How did you get into doing what you do today?
• How do you help people listen to their intuition?
• What is a brand archetype?
• How can people find their archetypes?
• Why are you obsessed with confidence right now?
• What do you say to people who have too many ideas?

Guest Bio:

Jennifer Kem is a San Francisco Bay Area-based brand building and leadership expert who gets entrepreneurs seen, heard, and paid for being themselves. She’s the creator of the Master Brand Method: a framework to develop powerful brand archetypes that win customers’ hearts, leveraging Jennifer’s 20 years of corporate experience and her launching of multiple companies.

She uses the Master Brand method in strategic consulting for emerging entrepreneurs, celebrity brands like Oprah Winfrey Network and Steve Harvey, and major corporations including Verizon, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Bank of Hawaii. What she is most passionate about in her work today is her legacy project: Femmefluence, a platform that supports women leaders to fully rise into their influence and affluence, so they can make an even greater impact in the world.

Jennifer serves up straight talk wrapped in love because she understands entrepreneurs’ challenges: She built a retail business and became a millionaire at 32, only to lose it all in the recession two years later. She is now the successful owner of three million-dollar brand-building businesses and the mother of three children.