Gratitude Geek: Business Education for Gen X Women Solopreneurs

Sleep better, build better. Riley Jarvis, CEO of The Sleep Consultant, reveals why sleep is the missing link in your business success and shares practical strategies to fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and wake up with abundant energy.

Riley recovered from Crohn's disease by discovering sleep optimization techniques that transformed his health. Now he helps high performers unlock their biology through deep sleep and REM sleep cycles, lab testing, and customized sleep strategies.

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Gratitude Geek is the business education podcast for Gen X women solopreneurs who weave gratitude and appreciation into their business strategy. Hosted by metastatic breast cancer thriver, Kandas Rodarte, who co-creates spaces, opportunities, and conversations for women business owners.

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Want to be a guest on Gratitude Geek? Send Kandas Rodarte a message on PodMatch here: https://kandasrodarte.com/podmatch

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Hibby Bartlett is energized, committed, and passionate about leading wellness conversations around life balance, mental wellness, self-care, self-realization, and whole life wellness. Her joy is seeing individuals build healthy communication and wellness methods into their life that reduce stress, reconnect relationships and bring harmonious balance to their lives. She excels providing people from all walks of life, with practical communication advice and strategies that meet today’s struggles with disconnection . Hibby is a professional speaker and Founder of World LOVEbank, a new health and wellness app designed to build and secure emotional health.

Gratitude Geek is the business education podcast for Gen X women solopreneurs who weave gratitude and appreciation into their business strategy. Hosted by metastatic breast cancer thriver, Kandas Rodarte, who co-creates spaces, opportunities, and conversations for women business owners.

• Subscribe to weekly emails: https://kandasrodarte.com/subscribe
• Join the Co-Lab: https://kandasrodarte.com/lab

Gratitude Geek is a member of Marketing Podcasts Network. For network wide advertising options visit: https://marketingpodcasts.net/advertise

Want to be a guest on Gratitude Geek? Send Kandas Rodarte a message on PodMatch here: https://kandasrodarte.com/podmatch

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Brandon runs and operates SEO Optimizers, a digital marketing company helping small and medium-sized businesses rank in Google for hyper-competitive keywords, increasing sales and generating new business. He has over 14 years of digital marketing experience; specializing in SEO and social media marketing.

Gratitude Geek is the business education podcast for Gen X women solopreneurs who weave gratitude and appreciation into their business strategy. Hosted by metastatic breast cancer thriver, Kandas Rodarte, who co-creates spaces, opportunities, and conversations for women business owners.

• Subscribe to weekly emails: https://kandasrodarte.com/subscribe
• Join the Co-Lab: https://kandasrodarte.com/lab

Gratitude Geek is a member of Marketing Podcasts Network. For network wide advertising options visit: https://marketingpodcasts.net/advertise

Want to be a guest on Gratitude Geek? Send Kandas Rodarte a message on PodMatch here: https://kandasrodarte.com/podmatch

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Ryan O’Hara is an entrepreneur, cybersecurity expert and founder of Sphinx Cybersecurity, an IT and Cybersecurity service provider in Dearborn, Michigan. Ryan founded Sphinx in 2009, after working for several years in corporate IT, to bring enterprise-level IT to small and medium-sized businesses. Sphinx has grown from its early service and support roots to become a security first managed service provider (MSP), specializing in keeping businesses throughout the United States secure and ready to handle today’s rapidly evolving world of cybersecurity.

Gratitude Geek is the business education podcast for Gen X women solopreneurs who weave gratitude and appreciation into their business strategy. Hosted by metastatic breast cancer thriver, Kandas Rodarte, who co-creates spaces, opportunities, and conversations for women business owners.

• Subscribe to weekly emails: https://kandasrodarte.com/subscribe
• Join the Co-Lab: https://kandasrodarte.com/lab

Gratitude Geek is a member of Marketing Podcasts Network. For network wide advertising options visit: https://marketingpodcasts.net/advertise

Want to be a guest on Gratitude Geek? Send Kandas Rodarte a message on PodMatch here: https://kandasrodarte.com/podmatch

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Harrison Baron explains backlinking in plain English, why Google treats links like votes of confidence, and how small businesses can build authority ethically. We also dig into meta descriptions, title tags, and using guest podcasting as a practical backlink strategy.

00:00 Introduction
01:58 Unethical marketing practices in digital agencies
02:24 Leaving IT to found an ethical digital firm
03:17 From struggle to SEO mastery
06:20 Knowing your limits as an entrepreneur
06:51 Why representing competing clients hurts results
07:11 Using social media and SEO to represent brands well
21:24 Writing killer meta descriptions and title tags
33:59 Backlinking explained + guest podcasting as a strategy
46:14 Can podcasting actually grow your business?
49:29 A house fire, loss, and protecting what matters most

Backlinking is one of the few SEO fundamentals that hasn’t changed — and in episode 124, Harrison Baron (Growth Generators) breaks down what backlinks are, why some links carry more weight than others, and how to build them without shady tactics.

We also cover the on-page basics many DIY business owners miss (title tags and meta descriptions), plus how guest podcasting can function as an authority builder and backlink engine when show notes live on a real website.

In episode 124, we cover:

Ethical marketing and why integrity matters in SEO

What backlinks are and how Google interprets them

Title tags + meta descriptions that improve clicks and rankings

DIY backlink strategies (and when to hire it out)

Guest podcasting as a backlinking and visibility play

A real-life reminder to protect what matters most after a house fire

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https://kandasrodarte.com/124

Gratitude Geek is the business education podcast for Gen X women solopreneurs who weave gratitude and appreciation into their business strategy. Hosted by metastatic breast cancer thriver, Kandas Rodarte, who co-creates spaces, opportunities, and conversations for women business owners.

• Subscribe to weekly emails: https://kandasrodarte.com/subscribe
• Join the Co-Lab: https://kandasrodarte.com/lab

Gratitude Geek is a member of Marketing Podcasts Network. For network wide advertising options visit: https://marketingpodcasts.net/advertise

Want to be a guest on Gratitude Geek? Send Kandas Rodarte a message on PodMatch here: https://kandasrodarte.com/podmatch

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This is a rebroadcast of Episode 5, originally published on January 28, 2014.

Welcome to Gratitude Geek, the relationship marketing podcast helping micropreneurs find your micro-influencer magic. I’m your host, Kandas Rodarte and this week we have a replay of a classic episode.

Last week, we shared my conversation with Melinda Russell, founder of the Women's Motorsports Network. Her son, the late Ben Beeler, was one of my very first podcast interviewees. In fact, it's episode 5. It's an intriguing and heart-felt discussion with awesome lessons to be gleaned about selling cars, overcoming adversity and being a decent human. So much so, that 8 years after it was recorded, I'm compelled to share it here again.

In the over 150 interviews I've done, less than a handful have moved me to tears. This is one of them.

Gratitude Geek is the business education podcast for Gen X women solopreneurs who weave gratitude and appreciation into their business strategy. Hosted by metastatic breast cancer thriver, Kandas Rodarte, who co-creates spaces, opportunities, and conversations for women business owners.

• Subscribe to weekly emails: https://kandasrodarte.com/subscribe
• Join the Co-Lab: https://kandasrodarte.com/lab

Gratitude Geek is a member of Marketing Podcasts Network. For network wide advertising options visit: https://marketingpodcasts.net/advertise

Want to be a guest on Gratitude Geek? Send Kandas Rodarte a message on PodMatch here: https://kandasrodarte.com/podmatch

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.