She Built This®

To research her books, films, and articles, Sy Montgomery has been chased by a silverback gorilla, embraced by a Giant Pacific Octopus and undressed by an orangutan. She's perhaps best known for her 14-year love affair with Christopher Hogwood, a runt piglet, who grew to a 750-pound great Buddha master.

She's been deftly undressed by an orangutan in Borneo, hunted by a tiger in India, and swum with piranhas, electric eels, and dolphins in the Amazon.

Sy has searched the Altai Mountains of Mongolia’s Gobi for snow leopards, hiked into the trackless cloud forest of Papua New Guinea to radio-collar tree kangaroos, and learned to SCUBA dive in order to commune with octopuses. 

In this interview, we talk about: 

• Sy's childhood and how that played a role in her decision to write books, especially the genre of books she does

Website: 

https://symontgomery.com/

On Social Media: 

Instagram

Facebook 

Twitter

Touching base this week, with a little heart-to-heart from me, your hostess!

I believe that managing our time comes from making it our friend first and keeping commitments to ourselves when it comes to what we spend our time doing. 

In this week's episode, I'm sharing some of the strategies I've learned this past year in my efforts to:

• Turn down the volume on some of the stress and overwhelm in my life

This is a compilation of the lessons learned over the past two years in running three businesses, managing two Facebook groups, social media for multiple clients, freelance projects, event planning, the podcast, a personal life, and more. 

I share tips you can try out for yourself and experiment with around: 

• Time auditing

I welcome your feedback and thoughts! Email me: [email protected] 

Links Mentioned in Episode: 

Learn more about the VIP group: www.shebuiltthis.org 

DEI Workshop: https://www.shebuiltthis.org/events/cultivatingequity

Recommendation for Professional Organizer: www.joannkrall.com

Thank you to the reviewer of the week: Mia and Steven! 

Mia and Steven shared that the She Built This podcast is "inspiring". They stumbled on it not too long ago and are happy they did! "Great conversations, vibe, and mission."

In this week's episode, we have the opportunity to hear from Ivor Edmonds, MHA of Sága. Ivor is a trauma-informed systems builder and master practitioner who has dedicated his career to addressing wellness and trauma healing in oppressed and marginalized populations. He has 20 years of experience working with gangs and troubled youth, homeless populations, victims of violent crime, survivors of trauma and rape, addicts, the mentally ill, and seniors.

Ivor's definition of “wellness” involves trauma healing, racial justice, and respect for the harmonious dialogue of energies in nature. 

In this conversation, Ivor paints a picture of the current landscape of his work around social justice, racial justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

We discuss: 

• Collaborations - what can come from teaming up with others and surrounding ourselves with the right people?

Learn more about Saga Healing and Ivor's work HERE 

Register for the upcoming workshop, "Cultivating an Equitable Environment: HERE 

Learn more and sign up to be a VIP (and get the workshop series with VIP and get the workshop series with Ivor at no additional cost HERE 

Join Host, Emily Aborn in an interview with Vicki Mellon and Carly Storro, co-owners and the collaborative partnership behind Look Up LLC. 

The mission and values of Look Up LLC closely align with She Built This. Look Up LLC seeks to celebrate the fullness of human diversity. Vicki and Carly highlight and opens up conversations around the different human qualities that are visible as well as those that are not visible. Their project is based on the fact that we are all very complex, often having many different and sometimes changing qualities.

We are all unique and we all deserve to be seen, heard, treated ,and represented equally and with full respect and dignity.  Listening and learning and sharing…education is powerful. Look up, look around, and celebrate our differences!

In this episode, we cover: 

• How Look Up LLC came to be

Look Up LLC Website 

Look Up LLC Instagram 

Look Up LLC Facebook Page

She Built This website and more info about upcoming workshops and the VIP group. 

I completely forgot to sing "Ice Ice Baby" in this episode, but it would've been entirely appropriate because today we're going to be talking about... 

Collaborations in business and how to stop, look and listen prior to taking the plunge. 

In this episode, I cover: 

• Why choosing collaborations is to be taken seriously for your business, brand, and your community members

Link to Learn More about VIP: www.shebuiltthis.org 

Link to Upcoming SBT Events: https://www.shebuiltthis.org/calendar-view

Do you consider yourself to be sensitive or an empath? 

Growing a successful business, setting boundaries, and negotiations can be challenging for those who are empaths or sensitive individuals. In this episode, host Emily Aborn speaks with Hollis McGuire and Tammy Jordan who share their own experiences of being empaths, sensitive, and hypervigilant. 

We talk about: 

• Some of the unique challenges that business owners face when feeling the energy of others and their surroundings

About Hollis McGuire: 

Hollis McGuire is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Business Advisor with a Master’s degree in Finance.

 She’s worked with over 1000 businesses in every stage of development from idea to capital raise to maturity to exit, from pre-revenue to $150 million in annual sales.  She has assisted clients in debt and capital raises of over $150 million dollars. 

She is also an empath and a business intuitive. 

About Tammy Jordan: 

Tammy Jordan is the Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of Leader Consulting Group. She’s an author, speaker, coach, and consultant in many things from HR, Organization Development, and personal development. 

She works with business owners and executives in defining their unique culture, hiring and promoting the best talent, developing and training agile and authentic leaders and teams, and managing growth and change.

Links Mentioned: www.shebuiltthis.org (Learn more about and join us in the VIP group) 

I met today's guest through VIP member, Sarah Guilliot. I began listening to her podcast and LOVE the content she puts on Instagram. One day, I shared in my Instagram stories about Jasmin's show and we were off to the races connecting!

In this episode, we’re talking all about vision, leaving a legacy, and determining what’s most important to YOU. What do YOU value? We all have to decide what's important to us and then live it. Right away! 

In this episode, we cover: 

• Focusing on long-term success and not just our current circumstances to push us towards our purpose

Connect with Jasmin:

Jasmin Website

Jasmin's Instagram 

Jasmin's Facebook

Jasmin's LinkedIn

Resources Mentioned: 

She Built This group info

Mike Clark - ClarkCreative Recording Studios info 

Thanks to this week's She Built This podcast review of the week from Applesauce345:

“Quick-Witted and voice like buttah” "Relevant and uplifting topics sprinkling in light-hearted humor.” 

Storytelling in Business is Essential Now More than Ever! 

No matter what you do and what your position is in your company, storytelling in business will make you more compelling, engaging, and more persuasive.

Storytelling will make you better.

Join me in this week's She Built This podcast, featuring speaker, professional storyteller and author, Kindra Hall where we talk about: 

• Why stories and storytelling are so important

Today’s guest is Kindra Hall, a professional storyteller who teaches leaders, executives and entrepreneurs across countless industries to harness and leverage the power of their stories. 

Her book, Stories that Stick debuted at #2 on the Wall Street Journal Bestseller List and Forbes said it “may be the most valuable business book you read." In 2020, she became the Chief Storytelling Officer of SUCCESS Magazine where she interviews icons like Deepak Chopra and Misty Copeland in an effort to hear and share their stories of success. 

Kindra’s NEW book Choose Your Story Change Your Life is now available - which she talks about in this episode. 

Find Kindra and Connect with Her Online: 

Kindra's Website 

Kindra's Instagram 

Kindra's Facebook Page 

Now is the time to focus on email and using it to reach your ideal clients! 

Email is more intimate and allows you to get cozy, share compelling stories, and can also be a foundation for the rest of your content strategy. 

In this week's conversation with copy and email marketing expert, Christy Cegelski, we get into: 

• Our lack of hobbies and mutual love for all things boring

And... you guessed it! MORE!

Christy Cegelski is a connection-driven copy and email marketing expert  for coaches and creative business owners in the online space. She’s also host of the Captivate + Convert Podcast which is all things copywriting, marketing, and branding. 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christycegelski/

Christy's Podcast

Website - Download her FREE "How to Write Emails that Sell" guide! 

For my 100th episode, I thought it would be fun to hear from another She Built This original- my husband Jason Aborn as we close this first chapter of the podcast. Join us in a fun and lively husband-wife conversation. 

We get into: 

• Our story and how we met 

Jason’s been my number one listener - and is probably the only one that’s heard them all (plus episodes NOT aired), besides me!

He's my third ever male guest and is She Built This' and my biggest cheerleader.

I could not ask for a better person standing by my side.