Let's Get Bossy

Parenthood is heavy, but get ready to lighten things up a little bit! I’m joined by the very talented Jill Moysiuk of Mom Said Duck to talk all things creativity and entrepreneurship! Jill’s story of losing her corporate job and being forced to pivot will leave you feeling excited for the possibilities that may be ahead for your own career. Mom Said Duck is a series of poems for moms who swear, moms who care, and moms who have messy hair! Mom Said Duck poems are usually saucy, sometimes sweet, but always a 100% honest take on the wild experience of being a mom. Stay tuned to the end to hear Jill share two of her amazing poems, and one of the most epic hot mess moments we have ever had!

Key Points For This Episode:

-The transition from job loss to entrepreneurship

-What it takes to grow your empire and be your own boss

-Handling pushback from friends and family when you make a career change

-How to tap into your own creativity and find your passion

-Ways to look for inspiration in life when things get hard or don’t go as planned

-Live reading of two of Mom Said Duck’s original poems

👉Connect With Jill:

Sign up for Fresh Poem Friday (FPF) today at www.momsaidduck.com and don't miss another poem that is always a 100% honest take on #momlife today.

Podcast: https://feed.podbean.com/momsaidduck/feed.xml

IG: @Jill Moysiuk

Facebook: Mom Said Duck

Website: www.momsaidduck.com

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👉 Are you a Boss Lady with a business? We want to support you! If you’re interested in us promoting your business on our show send us an email! This week’s Boss Lady Business is Women Aware And Prepared 🤩Women Aware and Prepared teaches women self defense so they can feel less vulnerable and more empowered! Owner, Mandy Pratt is a self defense teacher, speaker, author, and advocate that helps women be safer, and empowered with peace to outsmart the bad guys. Snag their Kindle Ebook on Pepper Sray on Amazon and Learn more at:

WomenAwareAndPrepared.com

And @womenawareandprepated on social

Amazon - Kindle Ebook on Pepper Spray

💕For more resources for working moms, check out my book The Millennials' Guide For Working Parents is NOW AVAILABLE! https://bit.ly/MGWorkingParents

The theme for this month seems to be clear, we don’t need to put so much pressure on ourselves. The world is hard right now. Being a mom is hard right now. Owning a business is hard right now. And one of the things that we tend to use to measure our success in both business and motherhood is productivity. Raise your hand if your productivity has determined if you had a good or bad day based off of how many tasks were checked off your to-do list? It’s what we have been groomed to do. The more productive you are, the better partner, mom, entrepreneur you are. So, this week I want to talk about how we can reframe and redefine what productivity means to us. It is time to ditch the toxic ways of our past and move forward with those healthy expectations I keep talking about!

 Remove Productivity From The Success Equation  

Turn Your "To-Do List" Into A "Top 3 List" 

Celebrate At The End Of Each Day

 Rework Your Time Block 

Stop Watching What "She" Is Doing 

 How does productivity effect your life? What makes you feel like you've had the most productive day?  Let me know at [email protected] 

What if you had a place to go where you felt seen, heard, and supported in your business and motherhood with a community of women who GET YOU? Becoming a founding member of BLAB HQ- your personal headquarters for all things business and motherhood!   https://megangillespie.podia.com/boss-ladies-and-babies-headquarters Does this sound too good to be true? It isn’t, I promise! Remember, I’ve been where you are and I created this space with YOU in mind. So here's what you get:  Monthly Training Workshop With Interactive Worksheets  Monthly Ideation Hour and Q&A  Monthly Networking Events  Weekly Accountability  Weekly Inspiration  Unlimited Connection and Interactions With Like Minded Women ... and SO MUCH MORE!  JOIN NOW! https://megangillespie.podia.com/boss-ladies-and-babies-headquarters

In this episode I'm joined by the inspiring and insightful Lia Pinelli. Lia is a life coach who specializes in helping women (particularly professional moms) stop overeating without the use of diets, shakes, or crazy workouts. On her journey to where she is now, she learned to think differently which led her to eat differently and in a simple, sustainable way. That was 30 pounds ago. Today she lives happily with her family in California and maintains her natural weight without counting calories or carbs. She’s on a mission to teach other women how to ditch the diet drama and create the lives they crave, unapologetically.

Key Points From This Episode:

-The cycles we fall into through our upbringings 

-How to think about losing weight in a healthy way and ditch the diets and negative feelings they come along with 

-Eating and living healthy when you're "busy AF"

-Self-Sustance" and how we can truly replenish our energy levels

-Busting common myths on why we think we can't eat healthy

👉Connect With Lia: 

@liapinellicoaching

https://www.liapinelli.com

https://liapinellicoaching.com/eatingwithoutfear /

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-life-you-crave/id1549945529

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👉 Are you a Boss Lady with a business? We want to support you! If you’re interested in us promoting your business on our show send us an email! This week’s Boss Lady Business is Tracy Rodriguez🤩 For all those with pain that won’t quit, you do NOT have to keep living this way. Tracy Rodriguez is a Corrective Exercise Specialist giving women the tools to eliminate chronic pain when no other methods have worked. You can snag your free consultation to find pain relief by DMing her on Instagram @tracyrodriguezces or you can visit www.workpainfreeprogram.com to learn more.

💕For more resources for working moms, check out my book The Millennials' Guide For Working Parents is NOW AVAILABLE! https://bit.ly/MGWorkingParents

Lately, I’ve been very open about the struggles of momprenuership and how it can feel really alone, really isolating, and really hard. Not to mention in the middle of a global pandemic that takes away so much of our village and our social interactions. But, you shouldn't have to do the alone! A big reason why it is so hard to be a working mom is that so many people in your life will not understand. And, no fault to them, it can be tricky to find the type of connection you need when people just don’t get it… get you. I felt this hard when I was pregnant with my daughter, and so I created a community around what I needed! If you’re feeling alone, isolated, and like no one understands you, you just haven’t found your community yet. If you’re feeling like you have to choose between business and motherhood, and your dreams have to be put on hold because you’re a mom… .you just haven’t found the right resources and support yet. The power of the right community can change your life!

In the episode we talked about the things I knew I needed from a community:

Vulnerability

Support

Like-Minded Women

Education/Resources 

Have you found your community yet? How does your community support you? Let me know at [email protected]

What if you had a place to go where you felt seen, heard, and supported in your business and motherhood with a community of women who GET YOU? Becoming a founding member of BLAB HQ- your personal headquarters for all things business and motherhood!  

https://megangillespie.podia.com/boss-ladies-and-babies-headquarters

 Does this sound too good to be true? It isn’t, I promise! Remember, I’ve been where you are and I created this space with YOU in mind. So here's what you get: 

Monthly Training Workshop With Interactive Worksheets

 Monthly Ideation Hour and Q&A

 Monthly Networking Events 

Weekly Accountability 

Weekly Inspiration

 Unlimited Connection and Interactions With Like Minded Women ... and SO MUCH MORE! 

JOIN NOW! https://megangillespie.podia.com/boss-ladies-and-babies-headquarters

In this episode I'm honored to be joined by Reketta P. to bring awareness to the health disparities and the devastating statistics that BIPOC birthing persons are experiencing. Reketta is a mom of 3  and Licensed Professional Counselor located in the state of Alaska. She owns Arise Counseling, LLC where she specializes in perinatal mental health and relationship therapy. Reketta is also a BIPOC Health Equity Consultant. She provides workshops and affinity groups to small and medium-sized organizations looking to reduce the health disparity rates in the BIPOC communities by increasing self-awareness and intentional action.

Key Points From This Episode: 

-Perinatal mental health 

-Insight to statistics of BIPOC birthing persons are 3-4 times more likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth related complications than white women

-Unconscious and implicit bias in health care

-Anti-racism work and the difference between anti-racism vs being not racist

-Allyship and the difference between true allyship and performative allyship

👉Connect With Reketta: www.arisecounselingllc.com (Therapy)

www.rspconsultingllc.com (Consulting for an organization)

@rspconsultingllcboutique 

@arisecounseling

👉Resources From Episode:

National Black Doula Association https://www.blackdoulas.org/

Therapy:

https://www.therapyincolor.org/

https://www.cliniciansofcolor.org/

👉 Become a member of Boss Ladies and Babies Headquarters at a special Founding Members price of $27 (through January 31st)

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🗣 Want to join the conversation? Follow along on social @bossladiesandbabies and join our private community on Facebook in our group Boss Ladies and Babies 💕www.bossladiesandbabies.com

👉 Are you a Boss Lady with a business? We want to support you! If you’re interested in us promoting your business on our show send us an email! This week’s Boss Lady Business is Mama Bear Bookkeeper 🤩 Free 30 minute consultation for anyone mentioning this ad!

CONTACT: 360-633-4404

[email protected]

facebook.com/mamabearbookkeeper

💕For more resources for working moms, check out my book The Millennials' Guide For Working Parents is NOW AVAILABLE! https://bit.ly/MGWorkingParents

Happy 2022…. Boss Ladies and Babies is BAAAACK!

You may have noticed we took a little break back in October to refresh, rejuvenate, and handle some personal things happening behind the scenes. And with the new year comes a new show, full of updates about where we have been (including a huge secret that you don’t want to miss)!!

In this episode we talk about entering the new year with healthy expectations for ourselves and spending time embracing the season of life, business, and motherhood that we are in now. New Years is a time we tend to feel a lot of pressure, from ourselves and others, and it is so important that we don’t get lost in the big expectations. Tune in to hear a refreshing perspective on how to tackle the new year, while not losing what’s important to you!

👉 Become a member of Boss Ladies and Babies Headquarters at a special Founding Members price of $27 (through January 31st)

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🗣 Want to join the conversation? Follow along on social @bossladiesandbabies and join our private community on Facebook in our group Boss Ladies and Babies 💕www.bossladiesandbabies.com

👉 Are you a Boss Lady with a business? We want to support you! If you’re interested in us promoting your business on our show send us an email! This week’s Boss Lady Business is Hello Dahl Baby  🤩 The goal of Hello Dahl Baby is to curate a minimalist, comfortable, collection of clothes and baby items from high quality brands. Hello Dahl Baby will be made up of items that are easy to mix and match to accommodate many outfit changes throughout the day. The Dahlia-tested, parent-approved durability of our products ensure they will be yours to love, wash, and pass down for years. Exclusive Boss Ladies and Babies discount: use code HEYMAMA for a one time offer of 15% off site wide :)

💕For more resources for working moms, check out my book The Millennials' Guide For Working Parents is NOW AVAILABLE! https://bit.ly/MGWorkingParents 

*TRIGGER WARNING* Child/Infant choking and death

Child choking is one of those things that we don't talk about enough. It is scary, and we often think "that won't happen to me". If it does... do you know what to do? In this episode, I am joined by The CPR & Safety Lady - Gail Gould - to talk about how to prevent a horrific event like choking, and what to do if it happens in your home. Gail has a mission to teach as many parent, grandparents, and caregivers as possible about CPR and choking relief, and talks to us about how no parent should ever have to lose a child to choking. Gail is a wealth of knowledge and shares real life stories, the differences between child choking and gagging, and what to do if choking happens. She talks about how prevention is key to avoiding CPR and shares great tips to you can start using today to help prevent a choking incident. Gail has a variety of classes, courses, and education on her social platforms and is passionate about helping spread awareness! 

 👉Learn more from Gail:

Instagram @thecprandsafteylady

Website www.thecprandsafteylady.com

 👉Enroll in The Systemized Social Media Shake Up https://bossladiesandbabies.regfox.com/the-systemized-social-media-shake-up

 🗣 Want to join the conversation? Follow along on social @bossladiesandbabies and join our private community on Facebook in our group Boss Ladies and Babies 💕www.bossladiesandbabies.com  👉 Are you a Boss Lady with a business? We want to support you! If you’re interested in us promoting your business on our show send us an email! This week’s Boss Lady Business is Sweet Indulgence 🤩 Sweet Indulgence is a custom bake shop. They do cakes, cupcakes, macarons, cookies that are as beautiful as they are delicious. The owner Amy loves frosting and hopes to bring smiles to as many people as she can through baking- and she does just that. Check out her amazing creations and contact her to order your own @sweetindulgencepnw or you can find her goodies at Joe's Fine Coffee on Mt. Baker Hwy here in Whatcom County. 

Yesterday will go down as the great Social Media apocalypse of 2021! Were you prepared? It's important to remember that we don't own our Social Media platforms, so having contingencies in place is going to be key to well rounded success… or, at the very least, less panic when a platform goes down! So here are some things you can do TODAY to prep you for the next time something like this happens… because it will happen again! 

Build your email list! You've heard me talk about this before, and today is a perfect example of WHY we need one!

Create a killer lead magnet to grow your email list by offering a freebie or discount to your audience. Also, be sure to create a strategy around all of your content to funnel people to your email list.

Take to Twitter (and other platforms like clubhouse, youtube, linkedin and pinterest). Even FB and Instagram took to Twitter today to address the masses and share what is happening. It may not be your main platform, but it's a good idea to have an account on several other platforms just in case.

Grow real life connections in your community and outside of the digital world! Remember that eal people in the community need your product or services, too.

Schedule your content ahead of time. How good is it going to feel when we are back up and running and you have fresh content ready to go.

Create a Media and PR plan for your business. Appear on podcasts, guest speak at summits and other communities, submit content to large blogs, get your name in front of new people and get exposure anyway you can.

Check out my NEW COURSE The Systemized Social Media Shake Up, which covers all these tips and more around how to make a Social Media strategy that works for your life and business! https://bossladiesandbabies.regfox.com/the-systemized-social-media-shake-up

How did you survive the outage? Were you freaking out? Did you have a backup plan? Take the day off? Let me know at [email protected]