Make Yourself

This week we end our season with our fiduciary friend, Chad Willardson from Pacific Capital. Chad joins the show to share on his new and first book, Stress Free Money! As always, Chad enlightens us with his financial wisdom around investing and getting yourself set-up for any financial goals you have set for yourself. Chad covers his top topics around his book, in addition to some helpful tips on where to begin when it comes to investing! We all get sucked into our day-to-day with our businesses, but these important steps will make a world of a difference with your finances. You don't want to miss this episode!

This week we welcome the CEO and Founder of Boulo Solution, Delphine Carter. Delphine has found her purpose in helping stay-at-home parents join the workforce by matching them with flexible job opportunities.

 

Women with large gaps in their resumes are finding it difficult to get hired. Boulo builds a 360º profile for each woman, encouraging potential employers to get hooked on the person, not the resume. In addition to job placement, Boulo also offers career mobility advice. They provide women with resources, coaches, and mentors for support. Boulo has now helped over 1,000 women on their platform and has generated over $1M in revenue.

 

Delphine has over 10 years of experience in product development roles. She was able to fund Boulo’s $500,000 seed stage while working and raising children during the pandemic.

This week we welcome Anne Gannon from the Largo Group!

 

Anne Gannon is the Principal at The Largo Group. The Largo Group offers innovative accounting and bookkeeping solutions to businesses and individuals. In 2016 The Largo Group’s revenue has grown 75% year-over-year for the last 5 years. The Largo Group has over 500+ customers from Alaska to Maine and a team size of 8.Anne is often tapped by press as an expert in PPP loans for business. The Largo Group is perfect for those looking for specialized monthly bookkeeping, tax services, and business consulting focused on improving efficiencies and the bottom line.

 

Anne shares her wonderful tips around the world of accounting and what you need to do to keep your business thriving.

No adult intimate relationship comes without challenges, but when you throw an entrepreneur into the mix, there’s a whole other set of logistics and hurdles to consider. Mike Frazier M.D., founder of Strong Men Strong Marriages, is a licensed psychologist and marriage coach dedicated to helping couples achieve the relationships they want and deserve. 

Mike joins the show full of professional expertise, but also with personal experience. Married for over 15 years (and raising five children!) Mike has weathered many relationship ups and downs and spent years learning how to build and maintain a great relationship. Additionally he and his wife are both entrepreneurs;  Mike will cover general relationship advice and maintenance along with tips to navigate the unique challenges that business ownership can bring to a marriage or union. 

Even if you’re not currently in a relationship, today’s show offers great insight on effective communication, prioritizing people, keeping our own egos in check, and working through differences all while meeting the demands of entrepreneurship. It’s a great episode and we know you’re going to love it!

Public Relations is a tricky field to navigate. Getting attention isn’t always easy. Getting the right attention is even harder. And we think attention is good, until it’s not. Then what? How much can we, as business owners, do ourselves, and when is it best to work with professionals?  We have so many questions and are so excited to get some answers from PR powerhouse, Shana Frahm. 

 

Shana is a global media and marketing expert, and founder of Spokeswoman Says, which offers women and business owners media training to ensure positive and constructive public messaging. Her 30 year career has covered music, sports, entertainment, film, fashion, hospitality, tourism, technology, agriculture, politics, and philanthropy. Shana has helmed the global brand media and communications functions in c-suite and executive level posts, along with serving in an agency capacity in support of game-changing leaders and entrepreneurs.

 From two U.S. presidential campaigns to three Winter Olympics; from the runways of Paris to the skateboard shops of Tokyo; and from Las Vegas music venues to Hollywood red carpets, Shana Frahm credits a long and storied career with the ability to remain agile, open and teachable. Crossing over to new industries to share best practices, as traditional media and communications gave rise to the digital age. Shana will be sharing some of those stories with us today along with tips on media training, best practices in public relations, and how to recover from negative publicity - and probably much more! Let’s hear from Shana!

Being a great entrepreneur doesn’t mean you’ll naturally be a great boss. Leading people requires its own set of skills.   

 

Ben Ward joins us today to talk about his new bestselling book, Sellership, that walks readers through the process of successfully becoming great leaders.   Ben’s insights come from extensive research as well as personal experience. He got his start as a door-to-door salesman while studying management, professional sales, and organizational psychology in college. Today Ben is a sales and leadership master with over 20 years of experience in executive leadership training and development. He’s an experienced and successful entrepreneur as well as a sought after key-note speaker, mentor, and strategic advisor. He founded Forward Leadership as a result of his personal obsession for continuous improvement  and passion for helping others grow and achieve. 

 

On today’s show Ben will share tired-and-true approaches to becoming an effective salesperson while outlining the qualities of successful leaders. He’ll identify potential roadblocks and offer instruction on how one might overcome them en route to becoming a great leader. Can’t wait for you to listen!

These days, organic and clean products are all the rage, but that wasn’t always the case. Someone had to get the ball rolling. One of those people was today’s guest, Nicola Elliott. 

 

In the early 2000s, Nicola Elliott was burning the candle at both ends as a hard working journalist when her physical and emotional health started to suffer. She eventually turned to nutrition and aromatherapy for healing and realized natural products were often more effective and pleasant to use. Her personal wellness journey fostered a love for quality, clean products and led to her founding the leading organic wellness brand, NEOM where she is currently the Creative Director.  

 

Nicola was awarded the title of “Entrepreneur of the Future'' in Britain’s prestigious Woman of the Future Awards. Today her company NEOM Organics is a top-selling wellness brand in the U.K. -  and recently became available in the U.S! 

 

Today’s episode we chat about the ways entrepreneurs neglect their health and forgo necessary self care along with healthy ways that can deal with stress, anxiety, and fatigue.Nicola shares the challenges of developing unconventional (for  the time) product and bringing it to market as well as the challenges of introducing products into new markets and countries. She’s committed to helping people achieve wellness through small moments of well being and we are excited to share today’s show!

Remember that scene in Wizard of Oz, where you finally got to see behind the curtain and get a glimpse at the Great and Powerful Oz?  Well our society's fascination with “behind the scenes” has only grown with the advent of social media.

Today’s guest, Jacob Zander, unlike the Wizard of Oz, is the real deal. Jacob essentially launched and grew his business, Feel Your Soul, through offering behind-the-scenes videos of his entrepreneurial journey. You can follow it all, from Jacob pitching the idea in a college class, to researching manufacturing in Vietnam, to building a mini warehouse in his bedroom, to the first day he had to hire help, and so on. 

 

Feel Your Soul is an apparel company that began simply with comfort-boosting insoles (dubbed “footsouls”) for Converse and Vans. The company’s “Smile Fund” helps Jacob and his team do random (and extremely generous) acts of kindness - all of which are filmed and posted (primarily via TikTok) to put a smile on your face, too. Personally, Jacob is dynamic, fun, super positive, and a great story teller. You can’t help but become a huge fan as you watch Feel Your Soul grow. We know you’ll enjoy today’s show!

This week we welcome the amazing Natalie Alcala. Natalie is a proud Mexican-Spanish woman and passionate connector. Following a whirlwind career as a freelance fashion writer, featured in noteworthy publications such as: Vogue, Racked, Elle, Refinery 29, and more! Natalie had seen such great success she became a successful fashion editor at Racked LA. 

Midway through her journalism journey, her career completely changed when she married and became pregnant. When her son was just three months old, in 2014 she launched Fashion Mamas, to celebrate and support working mothers. Natalie joins the show to share how she created a flourishing organization and how she put that mom-guilt to the side.

There’s a different approach and mindset involved when starting a business out of necessity and when everything is riding on it. 

 

It was in that position that then 17-year-old Michael Nemeroff and his siblings found themselves launching RushOrderTees, a technology-driven eCommerce custom apparel company. Their parents’ business was failing and the family was losing their home. Entrepreneurial by nature and with a good background in technology, Michael, who was still just in highschool, founded the company to help his family weather the hardship and to hopefully never find himself in that sort of vulnerable position again. 

 

For 18 years, Michael has lived and breathed his business, growing it into an industry leader by streamlining processes, integrating new technologies, and focusing on the customer which includes everyone from local teams to small business to Fortune 500 companies. 

 

Michael is just starting to come up for air and joins us to share his experience along with lessons learned along the way. It’s an interesting contrast to those whose businesses were born out of hobby or whose side-hustles grew to main gigs. There’s lots to learn and we’re excited for you to listen along!