Girlfriends Business

We Talk About:

• Highlights and lowlights
• Finding creative solutions to mentorship
• Creating mentors for different things
• Peer-to-peer mentorship

Resources:

• Follow Alli: @alliwebb
• Follow Lori: @loriharder
• Follow Brittany: @britdrisc

Show Notes:

There are so many entrepreneurs out there who are interested in finding mentorship. They're hungry to find a guiding figure that can help them grow their business fast with the right guidance. The problem is that most of the people you'd want to be your mentor tend to be very busy. They probably have people reaching out for mentorship constantly, so what can you do? Get creative! Your mentors don't have to be people you know. You can be inspired from afar and you can even become your own mentor by selectively deciding what information to follow.

We Talk About:

• Building relationships
• Making yourself available
• Letting people help you

Resources:

• Follow Alli: @alliwebb
• Follow Lori: @loriharder
• Follow Brittany: @britdrisc

Show Notes:

In the process of working on several businesses, one thing that keeps coming up is the throughline of kindness, networking, and how the two have helped me make relationships that have been instrumental in building my businesses. One part of that is trying hard not to burn bridges. The other part is making yourself available to other people – being willing to say "yes" and to help people.

We Talk About:

• The inspiration behind Skin Pharm
• Growing pains of building a business
• Applying skincare and botox tastefully
• Productivity hacks
• Using technology responsibly

Resources:

• skinpharm.com
• Follow Skin Pharm: @skin_pharm
• Follow Maegan: @maegangrifffin
• Follow Alli: @alliwebb
• Follow Lori: @loriharder
• Follow Brittany: @britdrisc

Show Notes:

Maegan Griffin is a total badass. She's the founder and CEO of Skin Pharm, a nurse practitioner, and mother of three of the cutest kids you've ever seen. She brings more than eight years of aesthetic medicine experience to her company, which offers in-clinic and at-home skin treatments. Her goal was to create a clinic environment and product line that she couldn't find anywhere else, but knew she'd love as a patient herself. The success of her clinics led to the launch of a skincare product line in 2018. This modern entrepreneur and badass boss babe is going to share how to start the company you wish was out there and all of the bumps that come with starting a business.

Question Highlights:

• What is your background and what led to founding Skin Pharm?
• What was your inspiration for Skin Pharm?
• What has been your biggest learning as you've grown?
• How is your skincare line structured and set up?
• What do you do to accomplish your goals?
• What are you doing to build a great company culture?

Guest Bio:

Founder, CEO, nurse practitioner and mother of three Maegan Griffin brings more than eight years of aesthetic medicine experience to Skin Pharm, a modern cosmetic dermatology practice offering in-clinic treatments and at-home skin care.

Griffin founded Skin Pharm in 2017, aiming to create a clinic environment and product line she couldn't find (and knew she would love) as a patient herself. As one of the first woman-founded cosmetic dermatology clinics available to consumers, the success of Skin Pharm's Nashville flagship site led to the launch of an eponymous skin care line in 2018, with clinics in Atlanta (2020) and Dallas (2021) following soon after.

Griffin is known for her innovative work in cosmetic dermatology, aesthetic medicine and modern facial rejuvenation techniques. As an early adopter of injectables and cutting-edge skin laser technologies, Griffin's artful work has secured her reputation as a provider who helps patients create meaningful changes – both internal and external – in their own lives, while finding a balanced approach to anti-aging and beauty, too.

Griffin and her team focus on promoting skin health, empowering individuals by building confidence and fostering a community around a common interest of looking as good as you feel.

We Talk About:

• Highlights and lowlights
• What we think of side hustles
• Setting your expectations
• Being smart about your goals

Resources:

• Follow Alli: @alliwebb
• Follow Lori: @loriharder
• Follow Brittany: @britdrisc

Show Notes:

It seems like nowadays everyone either wants or has a side hustle, but what makes a side project successful and how do you know if starting one is a good idea for you or not? There are so many considerations to take into account, so we're going to dive into them to give you some clarity and confidence that you can bring to the process.

We Talk About:

• How The Mixx started
• What you need to know to build your own business
• How to be at your best
• Adapting during the pandemic
• Taking on social issues

Resources:

• themixxnyc.com
• titaniumww.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/robynstreisand
• Instagram: @robynstreisand
• Follow Alli: @alliwebb
• Follow Lori: @loriharder
• Follow Brittany: @britdrisc

Show Notes:

Robin Streisand is the perfect blend of business savvy and creative prowess. In March 2021, her creative agency, The Mixx, celebrated its 25th anniversary of delivering visionary, creative ideas that ignite emotion and generate action at Fortune 500 companies across the world. She's a recognized figure in the LGBTQ+ community and was recently featured in OutMagazine as one of the top 100 most influential OUT people in the United States. Her commitment to working with diverse-owned businesses has been a lifelong passion and she continues to focus on leveraging the potential of independent and diverse companies, which led to the founding of Titanium Worldwide, the first collective of certified, diverse agencies in the marketing, media, and communications landscape. Her energy is infectious and her expertise obvious in this incredible interview.

Question Highlights:

• What do you do today?
• What is your advice for someone wanting to start a boutique business?
• What do you do to be the best version of you?
• How do you incorporate equity and inclusion into your business?

Guest Bio:

A 30-year marketing veteran, Robyn Streisand is the perfect blend of business savvy and creative prowess. In March 2021, her agency, The Mixx, celebrated its 25th anniversary of delivering visionary creative ideas that ignite emotion and generate action across the Fortune 500. She works with industry leaders who appreciate the key insight she brings to the table, along with the top-level strategy, creative, and execution her team provides. Her clients have her number on speed-dial and appreciate that they can count on her for solutions that get to the heart of their business goals. Clients include Mercedes-Benz USA, Disney, and Deloitte, amongst many others.

Robyn is a recognized figure in the LGBT community. She recently featured in OutMagazine 2016's 100 most influential out people in the United States, and is a co-founder of the NGLCC NY in Manhattan. Her commitment to working with diverse-owned businesses has always been a point of passion, where she continues to focus on leveraging the business potential of independent, diverse companies.

This same entrepreneurial instinct and passion for diversity led her to launch a second venture, Titanium Worldwide. The world's first collective of certified-diverse agencies in the marketing, media, and communications space launched in 2014, and offers integrated solutions for today's business needs. Her knack for connecting the right people, and her strong belief in finding ways to work better together paid off when the collective landed contracts with Fortune 500 companies within its first year.

Robyn and her wife Linda have raised two beautiful girls together and reside in New York City.

We Talk About:

• Highlights and lowlights
• The dangers of burnout and hustle
• When to partner with someone
• What to look for in a business partnership
• How to prioritize your different ideas

Resources:

• Follow Alli: @alliwebb
• Follow Lori: @loriharder
• Follow Brittany: @britdrisc

Show Notes:

In this roundtable episode, Alli and Lori are going to be answering your questions that you've sent in to our text list! First, we talk about how to decide when to partner with someone or if that's just an excuse for your fear. Then, we discuss how to prioritize when you have so many different ideas or things that need to get done.

We Talk About:

• The difference between urgent and important
• What happens when we respond to what's important
• How preparation can cut down on urgent and important tasks
• The decision-making matrix

Resources:

• Read: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Follow Alli: @alliwebb
• Follow Lori: @loriharder
• Follow Brittany: @britdrisc

Show Notes:

When you're trying to start a business while also making the most of your life, it can feel like every single second counts. You have to find the discipline to focus on what matters most – but how do you know what that is? We're going to break down how to differentiate the urgent from the important so that you can make the most of your most important resource: time.

We Talk About:

• Highlights and lowlights
• Dealing with high expectations
• Leaving space in your life for joy
• Why playing at a high level brings more challenge

Resources:

• Follow Jessica: @jessicazweig
• Follow Alli: @alliwebb
• Follow Lori: @loriharder
• Follow Brittany: @britdrisc

Show Notes:

Jessica Zweig is CEO of the SimplyBe. agency, a premier personal branding firm based in Chicago, and serving clients across the globe. Named a "personal branding expert" by Forbes, a "top digital marketer to watch" by INC, and honored with the gold and silver Stevie® Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018 and 2019, Jessica facilitates sold-out workshops and speaks on the power of personal branding to corporations including Google, Salesforce, Virgin, Nike, Motorola, Red Bull, and Bank of America. She also hosts the top-ranked marketing podcast, The SimplyBe. Podcast. Jessica's debut book, Be: A No-Bullsh*t Guide to Increasing Your Self Worth and Net Worth by Simply Being Yourself, launched in February 2021 with Sounds True, an imprint of Macmillan.

After growing up in Highland Park, IL and attending The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Jessica co-founded CheekyChicago, one of Chicago's premier lifestyle magazines. The website was a huge success and, although Jessica was known as a top ten Chicago "it girl," behind the scenes, her life was far from perfect. The website began to lose money, and Jessica's relationship with her co-founder turned toxic, but she still strove to maintain the façade of success. After overdrafting her checking account and becoming unable to pay her cell phone bill, Jessica realized she wasn't being her authentic self. Instead, she was operating from a place of fear which prevented her from true success. This revelation led Jessica to found her own company, SimplyBe. Agency, in 2014.

At SimplyBe., Jessica and her team work with corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and creatives to become recognized industry experts and thought leaders. SimplyBe. works with clients including Heineken, Morningstar, Blackstone, Mars, Vishen Lakhiani, Jason Rosenthal, Andrea Levoff, Larry Jordan, and many more to successfully develop their personal brands while highlighting their greatest business asset: their authenticity. Her business provides customized branding, marketing, and creative services with an emphasis on core values like kindness, truth, service, and, of course, authenticity.

Jessica believes authenticity is the key to true success, and that being yourself opens up a new world of empowerment that's not just about how much money you're making. She's also on a mission to debunk the perception that personal branding is an act of vanity; instead, when done right, personal branding is an act of service, social responsibility, and a positive investment toward a positive future.

Jessica has brought her life-changing and trademarked methodology to clients around the world, taking many from unknown expert to recognized thought leader. In her free time, she loves traveling, meditating, journaling, working out, and reading. She is involved with multiple charities including The Humane Society, The Human Rights Campaign, I Grow Chicago, Black Lives Matter, and more. Jessica currently lives in Chicago with her husband and two dogs.

We Talk About:

• Understanding the value of therapy
• Providing therapy to the world
• What Okay Humans is doing
• Making therapy less scary

Resources:

• okayhumans.com
• Instagram: @okayhumans
• Follow Christy: @okay_christy
• Follow Alli: @alliwebb
• Follow Lori: @loriharder
• Follow Brittany: @britdrisc

Show Notes:

Everyone deserves to get the help they need to feel healthy and happy. Mental health may be entering the discussion more and more these days, but finding a therapist you feel comfortable with is still a scary process. Christy Desai, of Okay Humans, is hoping to change that by making therapy more accessible than ever before. Christy has a unique story that's sure to help a lot of people.

Question Highlights:

• What is your career path and how did you get to where you are today?

Guest Bio:

After unsuccessfully trying to outrun the stress of life, Christy finally looked for a therapist in hopes of catching her breath. What started as "3-5 sessions" turned into years of deep, inner work – work she didn't even know she needed. And it freed her! She learned how to be okay with things like conflict, curveballs, and growth – just to name a few. Her own experience turned into a personal mission to help other people feel better, stronger, and more alive. There's no reason why talking to a trained professional shouldn't be as acceptable as going to the dentist, the hair salon, or seeking out a personal trainer. She started Okay Humans to normalize seeking support, to rethink the outdated therapy model, and to open up the conversation about getting to okay.

We Talk About:

• Constantly learning
• Setting expectations
• Dealing with peaks and valleys

Resources:

• Follow Alli: @alliwebb
• Follow Lori: @loriharder
• Follow Brittany: @britdrisc

Show Notes:

Entrepreneurship is a ride, but it can be the best ride of your life. It's going to have peaks and valleys, it's going to push you to your limits, but at the end of the day, you're going to figure out what your potential is and we bet that it's going to be higher than you ever imagined.