Girls Who Do Stuff

In This Episode:  

• Jane is creating really great software for photographers, called Picsello, which sets out to help photographers manage, market, and monetize their business on one intuitive platform. 
• Despite the common understanding, photography is actually really hard to do and very expensive and time-consuming. 
• Picsello launched in January to a small group of paid subscribers.
• We talk about the difference between being a photographer, and a business owner whose business is photography. 
• Jane breaks down how she went from photographer to software designer, to help solve common problems for photographers.
• Photography is a service that is very difficult to price, Picsello has built-in a price calculator.
• We discuss how crowdsourcing answers from Facebook can be terrible for your business.
• She discusses her experiences trying to get venture capital. 
• Jane shares some funny stories from working as a photographer.

Episode Sponsor: 

This episode of Girls Who Do Stuff is brought to you by Sarah Madras Coaching. We build brave leaders who create contagious cultures. Are you a boss or a leader? Join the Free Facebook group, Hire us to facilitate workshops, or do one on one coaching and development. Most business leaders won't get it, but I know you will if you learn to trust your team. Trust is money. 

Help Your Friends come as they are with the courage to speak up and tell a better story.

If you like The Girls Who Do Stuff, visit our website to subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like The Girls Who Do Stuff we'd appreciate you telling a friend (maybe even two). 

We talk about Jessica's new book, "I Almost Cancelled: Showing Up When Fear Tells You to Stay Home." Jessica Bettencourt knows what it’s like to face rejection, feel like she doesn’t belong, and second-guess big decisions. But she also knows that we have to face fear and risk failure to live out our calling. In I Almost Cancelled, Jessica shares how one scary decision after another led to a life she couldn’t even imagine. Her storytelling and southern charm will have you laughing at times and crying at others. She shows you step by step how to overcome self-doubt and build the life you’ve always wanted-not the life others tell you to want.

We get to hear Jessica's love story of meeting her future husband on a spring break trip. She was raised in a strict Christian home and would not have been allowed to go to spring break in Florida to galavant around the beach in a bikini, but her friend heard of an evangelist who was holding revival services. So they would spend the afternoons on the beach and evenings in the church. During the trip, she met her future husband on the beach, dated long distance for a long time, and eventually, they got married.

"Thankfully, I kept showing up, so I wanted to cancel. There are days I still want to cancel, but I have a no-cancellation policy in my life, and I show up." - Jessica Bettencourt

By having a no-cancellation policy you will train yourself to not put things on your calendar that you will dread.

We talk through how to say "no" even to things that are good things but may not align with your goals at this time.

"Everything is figureoutable and most things are fixable." - Jessica Bettencourt

We spend time talking about the difference between leadership and management. And how Jessica grew her first business and eventually handed over the reins to her husband who had a much different approach to leadership than her and the lessons she learned along the way.

Find out more about Jessica, her book, and connect with her on social media on her website. 

In This Episode:  

• The rules for this episode are simple. Sarah and Jenny pick their top five shows to binge. Do they pick just five? Probably not...
• We answer the hard-hitting questions that really make a difference... Like what to watch next. 
• Jenny talks about watching Arrow on the CW and the research she did before committing, she didn't realize with the other shows in the universe she committed to over 300 hours and made a spreadsheet to watch them in order. 

TOP FIVE-ish (in no specific order)

• Vampire Diaries
• Last Kingdom
• Outlander
• Bridgerton
• Cobra Kai
• Gilmore Girls
• Orange Is the New Black
• The Office
• Schitt's Creek
• Supernatural
• Lucifer
• This is Us 
• Ted Lasso 
• Yellowstone 
• 1883

Episode Sponsor: 

This episode of Girls Who Do Stuff is brought to you by Sarah Madras Coaching. We build brave leaders who create contagious cultures. Are you a boss or a leader? Join the Free Facebook group, Hire us to facilitate workshops, or do one on one coaching and development. Most business leaders won't get it, but I know you will if you learn to trust your team. Trust is money. 

Help Your Friends come as they are with the courage to speak up and tell a better story.

If you like The Girls Who Do Stuff, visit our website to subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like The Girls Who Do Stuff we'd appreciate you telling a friend (maybe even two). 

As a teenager in the buckle of the Bible Belt, Zack Hunt was convinced the rapture would happen at any moment. Being ready meant never missing church, never sinning, and always listening to Christian radio. But when the rapture didn't happen, Hunt's tightly wound faith began to fray. If he had been wrong about the rapture, what else about his faith might not hold water?
 

Part memoir, part tour of the apocalypse, and part call to action, Unraptured traces how the church's focus on escaping to heaven has it mired in decay. Teetering on the brink of irrelevancy in a world rocked by refugee crises, climate change, war, and rumors of war, the church cannot afford to focus on the end times instead of following Jesus in the here and now. Unraptured uses these signs of the times to help readers reorient their understanding of the gospel around loving and caring for the least of these.

We talk about how Zach grew up in the bubble and how he grew in college. Now Zach still finds the way of Jesus as attractive although he feels less excited by many aspects of organized religion.

Fundamentalism is a lot like racism. It's not something you're born with, it is something you're taught.

Zach talks about meeting his wife in college who wasn't afraid to call him on his way of thinking. He also describes meeting with a college professor to talk about his views on theology where he thought his hardline approach would be rewarded his professor challenged him to start with an understanding that we are living in the end times now.

After initially getting angry and rebelling for a couple of years in what Zach calls a pretty typical rebellion for a Christian kid (trying alcohol, listening to rock music, and getting a tattoo) he began to understand what his professor was saying. Zach felt that when you look at the Bible and need to interpret it you should begin from the standpoint of love and not fear. If your interpretation doesn't cause you to love God and your neighbor then your interpretation is wrong.

You can follow Zack on social and check out his book on Amazon.

In This Episode:  

• Darnell shares about what he does and how he mentors young business owners on how to save time and impact lives.
• Darnell tells about his journey of how he got into this line of work, starting with drawing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• He has learned that his mission is to create the straightest line possible between what a person's goal is, whether that is to get new clients, get sales, or become a better person in life to that path.
• We talk about how do you define empathy? 
• What are blockages for empathy?
• Is curiosity a skill or a gifting?
• We talk about how difficult it can be to meditate and practice that discipline.
• We talk about the importance of finding things that work for you and not feeling bad when something doesn't fit your lifestyle right now.
• Building empathy is a muscle.   

Episode Sponsor: 

This episode of Girls Who Do Stuff is brought to you by Sarah Madras Coaching. We build brave leaders who create contagious cultures. Are you a boss or a leader? Join the Free Facebook group, Hire us to facilitate workshops, or do one on one coaching and development. Most business leaders won't get it, but I know you will if you learn to trust your team. Trust is money. 

Help Your Friends come as they are with the courage to speak up and tell a better story.

If you like The Girls Who Do Stuff, visit our website to subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like The Girls Who Do Stuff we'd appreciate you telling a friend (maybe even two). 

In this episode, the guest is Katie Brinkley from a boutique digital marketing agency based just outside Denver in Littleton, Colorado. In today’s saturated digital world, she takes a creative approach to make your brand stand out – and get results.

Katie talks about where her favorite place to buy clothes is from a local apparel store, Ohana.

Katie gives a background about her and what her background is and the things that she has done. Her expertise in social media and history as a post-game reporter for the Broncos, the Rockies, and Nuggets. She moved into marketing during the time Sirus XM came out and started to change the radio industry.

Many people feel like they are not the type of people to think to take a picture of something that is happening in their life to post on social media, but there are rising numbers of experts to help those people.

Katie talks about how the different types of services provided by social media managers, some teach people how to use social media, and others just run their social media for them. She works with a lot of realtors to help teach them to maximize their social media.

Katie talks about how she was able to get her dream job out of college and the reason that she eventually quit that job.

Sarah talks about the importance of networking and Katie adds that it is important to never say goodbye to people and to always leave the conversation open.

Katie talks about how it makes sense that she has her own business because from a young age she was always driven to work and started some of her own businesses when she was young.

Brinkley talks about how she really struggles with comparing herself to others and where they are on their social media journeys and tips she has learned to overcome that mentality.

Katie talks about how she doesn't know if this will be her job forever because when she had her first dream job she thought that was it and now she thinks that the job she has now is her dream job. But life changes and it goes through seasons.

Katie gives 3 quick tips that you listeners can use to help push your social media to the next level.

Katie's socials are:
Instagram: iamkatiebrinkley
LinkedIn: Katie brinkley
Website: Nextstepsocialcommunications.com 

In This Episode:  

• Jo talks about her new merch store that's online now. 
• We learn that country songs don't translate to Canadian.
• Jo invite the girls who do stuff onto her podcast 
• Jo talks about how she really loves communicating to people in person, the podcast and TikTok is great but she really is energized by teaching and speaking to groups.
• When asked how she looks on social media she is quick to tell people that she carries a ring light and filter everywhere she goes. Lighting makes the difference.
• Jo talks about how her school's production has been asking her to be in the play for the past 20 years but she finally said yes. She actually got a pretty major role and she talks about how she is terrified.
• We talk about how when it comes to issues of gender, identity, and discrimination most of the time the unhealthy conflict comes from parents/teachers and how kid's don't struggle with it nearly as much as adults until puberty when they start to understand they "should" have an opinion.
• Jo walks us through the life lessons of her politics 12 class experiment that feels a lot like a reality television show.

Episode Sponsor: 

This episode of Girls Who Do Stuff is brought to you by Sarah Madras Coaching. We build brave leaders who create contagious cultures. Are you a boss or a leader? Join the Free Facebook group, Hire us to facilitate workshops, or do one on one coaching and development. Most business leaders won't get it, but I know you will if you learn to trust your team. Trust is money. 

Help Your Friends come as they are with the courage to speak up and tell a better story.

If you like The Girls Who Do Stuff, visit our website to subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like The Girls Who Do Stuff we'd appreciate you telling a friend (maybe even two). 

The kids are in the studio! It was a bit crazy. We took the opportunity to talk about expectations, work-life balance, and giving yourself grace as a "MOM-BOSS."

Hear clips from our kid's adorable and sometimes challenging answers to our questions.

Like when asked what questions they have for us, we got "Why do you spend so much time at work?"

Parenting is tough and you are not alone.

Work-life balance may be the wrong word. We like work-life harmony. You can fall in and out of harmony and it allows for each person to set their own harmony. Some people may like to work 4 or 5 hours a day while others may find their harmony at 8-10. Also, life is seasonal and there are times when you may need to put in more work and you have to find ways to keep harmony in those seasons. 

Work-life harmony can also apply to your family life. What does harmony look like with your spouse and with your kids. People are individuals and individuals have individual needs. 

In This Episode:  

• We talk about boundaries by joining Sarah and Jenny mid conflict about a scheduling issue.
• We discuss using your personal cell phone as your business phone, the good the bad and the ugly.
• We discuss the differences of boundaries for men and women in our society.
• We talk about social media marketing and people who have been "told" to be on a certain platform. Is this a boundary issue? Are you posting for you or doing it to appease other people? 
• We share tips on how to set expectations for the people in your life.  

Quotes from Today's Episode:

• "The introvert is strong in this one." ~Sarah Madras
• "No is a complete sentence." ~ Jenny Midgley

Talked about on Today's Episode:

• Google Voice

Episode Sponsor: 

This episode of Girls Who Do Stuff is brought to you by Sarah Madras Coaching. We build brave leaders who create contagious cultures. Are you a boss or a leader? Join the Free Facebook group, Hire us to facilitate workshops, or do one on one coaching and development. Most business leaders won't get it, but I know you will if you learn to trust your team. Trust is money. 

Help Your Friends come as they are with the courage to speak up and tell a better story.

If you like The Girls Who Do Stuff, visit our website to subscribe for free and you'll never miss an episode. And if you really like The Girls Who Do Stuff we'd appreciate you telling a friend (maybe even two). 

More about Katelyn from her website KatelynScottPhotography.com: 

Hi All! My name is Katelyn, and I am the boss lady behind Katelyn Scott Photography, once formally known as Kali Klicks.  If you are curious about the name change and rebrand hop into the blog and read all about it.  

I am based in Raleigh, NC, and have traveled as far as Australia to capture the perfect moment.  I have been shooting since 2012 and full-time since 2016.  In that time I have come to learn that photography is incredibly important to document the little moments in life.  I have a very strong belief that no matter who you are or where you are in life, you are worthy of getting in front of a lens.  I specialize in body-positive photography and encourage women to lean into the vulnerability of getting in front of a camera.  Your story matters and I am here to walk with you through that journey.  My passion sits firmly in the belief that the female form needs to be celebrated just the way it is, not to be altered, manipulated, or changed.  

Women deserve to be unapologetically seen and I am here to help in that journey.  Embrace all stories, especially yours.  

Transformative change starts with a spark. For many dealing with body images, it can start with being sick and tired of being sick and tired. 

We discuss the culture of an unhealthy body image perpetuated by marketing and people selling products designed for healthy living.

"With boudoir specifically, all I'm trying to do is hold up a mirror to who you are and how beautiful you are in the body that you currently reside in because it is a shock. When you see it the way somebody else sees it, it's a shock. We stand in the mirror, we never see ourselves joyful. We never see ourselves in an intimate setting. We never see that sparkle. So that's what the world sees." - Katelyn

We have a blast talking about our body image journeys in classic raw and authentic "Girls Who Do Stuff" style. We talk about living without a scale and the benefits it could have in your home.