Let's Get Bossy

How To Stay Consistent

So you want to grow your business, but are struggling to gain momentum? You may have an issue with being consistent! Follow these tips to help get on track to show up for your audience!

✨Determine your highest and best use of time

✨ Get your priorities in check

✨ Put it on paper or find an accountability partner

✨ Ask for help and create habits

✨ Don’t bite off more than you can chew! Have a goal list, but scale back to what you can handle RIGHT NOW!

Commit to your audience and consistency will come! Now get out thread do the things 👏

Ah, marriage! The joys of committing yourself to one person for life, and then possibly raising a tiny human together, while trying to run a household, manage your careers, and keep the spark alive… *swoon* 😍

But really, marriage is hard and rewarding, and we wanted to share our thoughts 🙌

In this episode, we shook things up a bit! We recorded LIVE in our private facebook community and opened the conversation to our listeners👏 There is no guest this week, as we wanted to get real about our own marriages. We talk about each of our marriage stories, our biggest hurdles and wins, favorite things to do with our spouses, and how marriage has changed since having children.

Though we are no experts, we have a combined 15 years of marriage under our belt! We share some of our personal tips that have worked in keeping our marriages healthy and happy. The episode rounds out with a Marriage Myth Busters segment… and you guessed it… we share our own Hot Mess Moments. This episode has a few awkward moments, and will definitely leave you with some laughs, and hopefully some fresh ideas to bring into your own marriage 💖

We are excited to announce that LIVE recordings of our episode will now be happening monthly in our private facebook community! Thank you to everyone who tuned in, we had so much fun!

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

We talk a lot about things you can do to connect and provide value to your audience, but how do you determine WHO your audience is? Check out these foolproof tips to find your crew 🙌

👀 Use analytic tools to learn who your audience is and when they are watching

👀 Know your insights and how to read them

👀 Identify your top performing posts and post types

👀 Keep an eye on your page growth and what type of content is bringing the most likes/followers

👉 Once you have an idea of who your audience is, you want to determine if this is the audience you want! Does this audience fit into your branding words? Your mission statement? You niche?

Find your crew and work smarter by gearing your content towards them!

October is national Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and in honor of so many women who have lost a child during pregnancy or in infancy, we wanted to share an open conversation about an important and, unfortunately, “taboo” topic. This is a topic that women need to continue to normalize being open about, because we are not grieving these losses alone💕 In this episode the Boss Ladies are joined by -Andrea Thayer- who shares her story, and offers hope and help for finding peace in life after loss.

Andrea shares what her life is like now, and how her loss has impacted her view on motherhood and relationships. Andrea is open about what gifts she has found through her suffering, how to handle triggers, and ways that friends and family can support their loved one suffering loss.

This is the kind of loss that no woman should have to suffer, but 1 in 4 of us do, and we don’t need to suffer alone! If you or someone you care about has lost a child to stillbirth, miscarriage, SIDS, or any other cause at any point during pregnancy or infancy, please join us in raising awareness this October.

We are so thankful to Andrea for being so open, and for extending such a big hand of love and support out to our community by sharing her story. We will continue the conversation and never let these sweet babies be forgotten. Andrea has invited anyone suffering this type of loss to reach out to her if you need support, or to talk it through. Please find ways to spread awareness and more ways to support bereaved parents below:

Star Legacy’s October #NeverBeStill campaign seeks to break the silence surrounding stillbirth and other pregnancy/infant losses by not only educating the public about ways to support bereaved families but also empowering expectant mothers to have a healthy pregnancy.

OCTOBER 15TH – WORLD PREGNANCY & INFANT LOSS REMEMBRANCE DAY

On October 15th, participate in the International Wave of Light by lighting a candle at 7 pm local time to honor all babies gone too soon. Keep your candle lit for at least one hour to create a continuous “wave of light” across all time zones covering the entire globe!

SUPPORT BEREAVED PARENTS

There are many ways to support the bereaved parents in your life/community, including: https://starlegacyfoundation.org/awareness-month/

🗣 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

#howtheheckdoiusehashtags?!?!

Hashtags are a super useful tool to build your audience and increase your visibility on social 🙌 As silly as they may seem, getting strategic with your hashtags is a quick and fool proof way to grow your presence. In this episode we dive into our tricks for Instagram hashtags! Just stay consistent and follow the formula!

#️⃣ Instagram has a Hashtag Limit of 30

#️⃣ Always use at least 15- 20 hashtags to increase your chances of being found

#️⃣ Use as many hashtags as you can, while being strategic and in reference to your business

#️⃣ Hashtags over a million are too diluted with posts. Don’t use them! Your posts will get lost and only seen by spam bots

✨HASHTAG FORMULA✨

Create your go to list of hashtags using this formula:

#️⃣ 3-5 Popular hashtags- 300,000 to 1 Million

#️⃣ 3-5 Moderately Popular hashtags- 80,000 - 300,000

#️⃣ 3-5 Niche-specific hashtags

#️⃣ 1-2 Branded hashtags

#️⃣ Stay consistent and change your last few hashtags to relate to your post. Be sure to engage with potential clients and audiences from hashtags depending on types of postings 👏

Let’s talk about sex baby….but not how you think. We are talking Gender and the “traditional” roles that come along with it. In this episode the Boss Ladies are joined by the incredible boss babe and mom to be -Jessica Hickman- 🙌👏

Jessica and her husband are total couple goals and breaking the mold of the typical gender roles! We dive into everything from our stance on gender reveals (and how to not start wildfires), to what roles we each carry in our households vs. the roles modeled in our childhood. As a career driven and full time working mom to be, Jessica has some big changes to adjust to, and shares her plan on handling parenting roles - she will continue to be the main earner for their family while hubby becomes the main caregiver-, values and traditions that are important to instill on her child, how she may want to parent differently than she was raised, and the internal struggle that many of us woman feels when we are split between the desire to grow our careers and become a mother. The conversation hits many hot topics as we discuss the challenges of raising boys and girls, what changes we can make within ourselves to break the modeling of “traditional” gender roles, and how heavy and important the responsibility of teaching consent and consideration for others is. This episode is full of “girl power”, and though women's rights have come so far, 2020 has made things a little uncertain for the progression of our rights moving forward. The topic of gender roles and identity is not something we should ever stop talking about, and we are so thankful to have had the opportunity to share this necessary conversation with Jessica!

Follow along with Jessica’s journey into motherhood (narrated by her fur baby Leo) at @leotheforestcat on Insta

🗣 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

We see you Boss Ladies out there killing it. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, an employee, or running your household like a boss, you are setting an amazing example for your children on what it’s like to be bossy🤩 In this episode, the Boss Ladies and joined by the incredibly inspiring -Brian Weisfeld- to talk all about the Startup Squad and growing entrepreneurs 🙌

The Start Up Squad is a book about girlpreneurs and was inspired by Brian’s two daughters. It’s something he wanted them to have and it didn’t exist so he created it for them. Brian strongly believes that girls with an entrepreneurial mindset – who are comfortable with risk, who see opportunities instead of problems, who know how to sell something (be it a cup of lemonade or one of their ideas), and who know that failure isn’t what happens when you don’t succeed, it’s what happens when you don’t try in the first place – will be more successful in life regardless of the path they choose 👏

We talk to Brian about tips and tools we can provide our children with to pursue their dreams, and how we can support them even if it’s scary. The episode rounds out with TWO hilariously messy Hot Mess Moments, and some great resources that Brian is offering to our listeners!

✨Big shout out to Brian (our first Boss Dad) for spending time chatting with us about something we don’t talk about enough! This episode will leave you feeling inspired and ready to tackle the world, with your little Boss in tow!

Find the Start Up Squad books, and more from Brian at www.thestartupsquad.com

Offer – If you purchase a book, email [email protected] with the name of your child and address and Brian will send you a signed bookplate and SWAG.

🗣 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

We can’t turn back time, but we can learn from other’s mistakes and success. Here are some of our favorite tips from super successful people: ✨Begin working on your personal brand early ✨Learn what you’re good at ✨Get to know how other people live ✨Work won’t remember that weekend you didn’t give up, but your friends will ✨Learn as much as you can ✨Read the books

Health is at the front of everyone’s minds these days, and nutrition can be an extremely overwhelming and confusing topic. In this episode the Boss Ladies has the honor of talking with nutritionist and nature-foods advocate -Jamie Truppi- 🙌 Jamie holds a Master of Science & Nutrition in Integrative Health and a post-masters board certification as a Certified Nutrition Specialist. She let us pick her brain about Whole Foods, food values, how to handle picky eaters, and so so much more! We just skim the surface, but Jamie provides so many tips and ideas to start trying right away 👏 Jamie has an amazing offer for our listeners- a free 1-week family "back to school" lunch & snack plan! Check out Jamie and all the knowledge she has to offer in her Facebook Group "Conscious Family Food Community" , on Facebook at Integrative Nutrition, on Instagram @jamietruppi, or at her website https://www.jamietruppinutrition.com/mealplanfreebie

🗣 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

Let’s talk about YOU! How do you write that clever, stand about “about me” section? We have some tips 👏 🤩Pick a Photo- friendly and professional

🤩Intro- who, what, why

🤩Share your story- how you got to where you are now

🤩It’s time to be the hero- showcase your success and how you can help others

🤩Mission Statement- share one main goal with your business

🤩What’s in it for me- explain clearly how you can help your customers achieve their desired goals

🤩Call to action- choose the main thing you would like your potential customer to do and call it to action

🤩Closing- show your personality and leave them wanting more