Welcome to episode 102 where Lisa talks to Matthew Turner, author, and ghostwriter, who has a new book coming out for millennial entrepreneurs. Matthew’s goal is to help connect people through storytelling and to help entrepreneurs exit the hustle and grind mentality.

Key Takeaways

• comparison culture is a part of human history, but it's an overdrive now

Connect with Matthew:

Website

Facebook

Instagram

In today’s episode, Lisa talks with Megan Dougherty, co-founder of One Stone Creative, a strategic content agency with a focus on helping entrepreneurs, small business owners, and other content creators launch into new platforms, and repurpose existing content.

They discuss many topics related to marketing and podcasts 

Listen in to hear more about online networking, email marketing, and more.

Key Takeaways

• Marketing is multi-channel, it doesn't live in a silo

Where to find Megan: 

LinkedIn

Website

Facebook

Twitter

Celebrate with us! Today is the 100th episode of the It’s Simply Digital Podcast, and Lisa has had the opportunity to speak with some truly amazing people. So many guests have come and shared their knowledge in regards to marketing, leadership, business, entrepreneurship, and so much more. 

Listen in this week as we revisit those times and Lisa shares some of the best knowledge bombs from the past 99 episodes. Don’t forget to share with your friends and rate and review us on iTunes! 

Connect with Lisa

Facebook

LinkedIn

Instagram

Listen in as Lisa talks to Elisabeth Bohlmann of December Labs. In this episode, they discuss the importance of UX, or User Experience, and how even a start-up can benefit greatly from research into their key demographic. 

Elisabeth is VP of Client Strategy at December Labs, a high-touch Design & Development

firm for mobile and web products that are at the frontline of innovation. She drives

December Labs’ expansion strategy and accompanies up-and-coming startups and

enterprise companies towards scalable and continuous growth.

Key Takeaways

• Concerns regarding user experience are still relatively new in the software industry

In this episode, Lisa speaks with former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and business makeover specialist on MSNBC, and popular main stage keynote speaker on innovative entrepreneurial topics; Mike Michalowicz.

Mike is the creator of Profit First, which is used by hundreds of thousands of companies across the globe to drive profit. He is the creator of Clockwork, a powerful method to make any business run on automatic. And his latest, arguably most impactful discovery, is Fix This Next. In Fix This Next, Mike details the strategy businesses can use to determine what to do, in what order, to ensure healthy, fast, permanent growth (and avoid debilitating distractions).

Key Takeaways

• The ultimate contribution to our economy as an entrepreneur is not to do the work but to be the provider of the jobs

Where to find Mike: 

https://mikemichalowicz.com/

In today’s special “Friday Live” episode, Lisa talks with Gary Travis. Gary has had exponential organic growth via LinkedIn over the past year and has created BloomingBound to help other entrepreneurs grow an engaged audience of their own. Gary's program was created after Gary had success growing his B2B SaaS platform that matched employees in Chicago with local volunteering opportunities.

Lisa and Gary discuss organic growth, creating engaged connections, and leveraging those connections to build a thriving business. 

Key Takeaways

• Creating meaningful connections lead to long term success

Learn more about Gary: 

Website

LinkedIn

Instagram

In today’s episode, Lisa speaks with Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting. They discuss the new networking app Clubhouse, stepping off the beaten path, lessons learned in the time of COVID, and of course, Laura’s book, Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life (2019).

Key Takeaways

• How Clubhouse is removing barriers for women, LGBT+, people of color, etc to have a platform where they can speak and actually be heard

About Laura

Today

• Globally touring professional speaker (from colleges to conferences to corporations around the world, to a US Army base in Japan, to a TEDx stage in Boston, to The TODAY Show and Good Morning America).

Previously

• Founder and CEO, NPAG (executive search firm serving nonprofits, foundations, universities, advocacy orgs) 

Take the Limitless Challenge: We can set up a personalized page for your audience to take an assessment and learn what is stopping them to becoming limitless, and what they can do about it.  http://www.LimitlessAssessment.com 

Take the Limitless Course: After a year of audience members asking if they can go deeper in the topics, Laura created an online course with videos and a beautiful workbook of exercises. It’s found at http://www.heyLGO.com/learn and we can provide affiliate links for you if you’d like.

Buy the Book: Limitless is available everywhere April 2, 2019 (with signed copies, bulk buys, and bonuses leading up to that launch date via pre-sale).  Everything can be found at http://www.LauraGassnerOtting.com/limitless. 

Book Laura as a Speaker: For details on how to bring me in as a motivational speaker to help your company, college, community, or cohort become limitless, please see my speaker deck, videos, and other salient details on my website at http://www.LauraGassnerOtting.com. 

In today’s episode, Lisa interviews Andrew - Co-founder at Postaga. They were just featured on Product Hunt as the number #1 product of the day.

Andy Cabasso is a digital marketing professional, speaker, and lawyer. He is the co-founder of Postaga, an all-in-one platform for link building and email outreach. Prior to Postaga, he started, grew, and then successfully sold a digital marketing agency.

His mission is to help make businesses on the internet more successful. Before all these, Andy was a practicing lawyer.

Key Takeaways

• Increase traffic to a website with link-building SEO

Connect with Andy: 

Twitter

LinkedIn

Instagram

In this special episode, Lisa talks with Krista Mollion in a special Friday Live broadcast. Krista is a business coach and consultant; she specializes in content marketing strategy and campaigns. She has worked with multiple national brands in Silicon Valley, and in 2017 she sold her agency and went solo, switching to working with small business owners. 

In this special Friday live chat, Krista tells us about her mindset coaching program, The Sassy Method, and how to harness the power of LinkedIn.

Key Takeaways

• Importance of creating a LinkedIn connection policy

About Krista

Krista Mollion is a seasoned Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and the founder of The SASSY Method™, a business blueprint program for new founders. 

Krista built one of the leading experiential marketing agencies in San Francisco specializing in 3d and virtual reality and worked with leading brands like Apple, HR, Samsung, Google, and Lennar Urban, to launch new cutting-edge products. AdAge called her agency “atmosphere magicians”.

Krista sold her agency shares in 2017 and since then, has been consulting small business owners and startups as an angel advisor, business mentor, and marketing coach. You can find out more about her programs here. Subscribe to her mailing list and podcast, Take Back Mondays, for inspiring advice for entrepreneurs and positive work culture, or, if you prefer video, subscribe to her YouTube channel.

In today’s episode, Lisa talks with Stephanie Heller. Stephanie is a no-nonsense life coach with her business, The Profit Lounge, who helps her clients get focused, stop overthinking, and end the decision drama when it comes to starting and growing their business. Listen as Stephanie and Lisa chat about using the power of mindset and visualization to overcome business fears. 

Key Takeaways

• The three main obstacles that entrepreneurs face when starting a new business

About Stephanie: 

Stephanie Heller has a way of zeroing on your bullshit, showing you how you're creating it, and then pulling a plan together to change. She does this daily for business owners to stop overthinking and make simple decisions so they can add revenue, experience possibility, and feel better quickly.

An early mid-life crisis/career change at 30 years old led her to move across the country from New York City to Scottsdale and enroll in Le Cordon Bleu culinary program. She started Ripe Personal Chef Services an in-home personal chef service cooking daily & weekly meals and boutique dinner parties for discerning guests. Growing the company to mid-six figures, 8 chefs, and cooking for entire baseball teams was an epic experience and huge life learning.

 With a BA in Psychology from Boston University, she's always been obsessed with understanding why people do what they do and what is stopping them from getting what they want. She's an advocate and power partner to her clients and teaches brain and thought management tools that have 100% ROI so they can accomplish anything.

Website: StephanieHeller.com

Community: The Profit Lounge Facebook Group

Business in Balance: Facebook page