She Reaches Podcast

What if you could handle your finances in 10-15 minutes during your lunch break? In this episode, Erica Gellerman discusses some financial hacks and shortcuts that you can fit into your busy schedule. She talks about how to be mindful about your money - including spending on the things that make you happy. Her "lunch break list" will allow you to make progress even with the smallest amount of time.

Highlights:

• Why you should consider having financial goals for fun and dream vacations
• Setting up your savings accounts
• How to automate your savings
• Spending on the things that make you the happiest
• Using a "lunch break list" to tackle your financial to do's in 10-15 minutes
• Handling variable income
• How you can be influenced by the spending habits of those around you

Today's Guest:

Erica Gellerman is a CPA, MBA, personal finance writer, and founder of The Worth Project: a weekly money newsletter you actually want to read. Her work has been featured on Forbes, Money, Business Insider, The Everygirl, The Everymom, and Lifehacker. Originally from California, she's spent the last 4 years living in London and exploring Europe with her husband and now with her new son, Henry.

Resources:

theworthproject.co

Instagram: @theworthproject.co

Twitter: @ericagellerman

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Do you struggle to find time for friendship?

In this episode, Becca Marco is back to chat about specific things you can do to make time and effort to cultivate close friendships. We share the story about how we became friends and the secret we kept from the She Reaches audience about our relationship at our corporate jobs.

We also share how we use technology to maintain friendships when we have little time and we give you tips on handling situations where you enter a different life stage or circumstance like having a baby or moving.

If you want to have close friends, but have struggled to make time or find those friends, this is your episode!

Highlights:

• How Becca and Tiffany became friends
• The three things you need to have in a friendship
• Handling it when you feel like you're growing apart from a friend
• If there's something wrong when you're the person always reaching out
• Keeping friendships when you move
• Fitting in friendship when you have little time
• Using technology to create closer friendships
• Saying yes to invitations when you want to make new friends

Today's Guest:

Becca is currently a Director in Sales at a technology company. She is responsible for managing the account relationship with top media clients and assisting them with their cross-platform strategy. She started her career in media research over 13 years ago, and since then has run three marathons, spent time on an avocado orchard in New Zealand, and became a wife, step-mom to three boys (21, 16 and 15) and a mom to one daughter.

She is passionate about people and building communities to support individuals as they navigate through their lives. At work she founded a young professionals group to provide them with opportunities for professional development through learning and social events, as well as a women's group to provide support and guidance to assist in career and personal development; while outside of work she co-founded She Reaches. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband Alan and daughter Isabella.

Resources:

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Could you use some hacks for being healthy?

You're cramming enough stuff into your schedule and I'm sure you have health goals just like I do. In comes my guest in this episode of the podcast, Lindsay Young. She gets you in the right mindset for living a healthy life while also providing down to earth and realistic hacks that you can add to your life right now. And, if you want to know why everyone on Instagram seems to be juicing celery right now, Lindsay tackles this topic too!

Highlights:

• Lindsay shares how she struggled with health and her weight until college
• Why she's passionate about both physical activity and nutrition
• The importance of health for moms
• How to find something that will really help you make changes for your health
• Lindsay shares some realistic hacks to tweak your health right now
• The truth about the latest trend - celery juice

Today's Guest:

Lindsay Young is a Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach and Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist living in sunny Southern California. She's a wife, mama of 3, food enthusiast, and embracer of imperfection.

Lindsay specializes in helping moms develop a simple nutrition and lifestyle plan to create optimal health and energy so that they can confidently rock their ideal body. Her approach to wellness focuses on real food in a real-life context, helping her clients develop a modern approach to a healthy lifestyle that is simple and joyful, in their homes and out in the real world.

Lindsay is hot on a mission to empower and educate moms to create a body they love with real food nutrition. She believes living well can mean eating chocolate and enjoying happy hour, learning to trust your body, and embracing food freedom.

Resources:

Lindsay on Instagram www.lindsayliveswell.com Lindsay's Facebook group Food scale Free meal plan

Do you have a gameplan for the holidays?

If you think your schedule is busy right now, think about how much the holidays can add to it. The holiday season adds even more to your plate than you already have. In order to prevent it from becoming a stressful season, I'm sharing shortcuts to plan ahead to make it a simple and meaningful season this year.

Highlights:

• Why you should think about preparing for the holidays before they happen
• Reflecting on what you'd like out of the holiday season
• Deciding what you can let go of for your holiday season to reduce stress
• What memories do you have from your childhood?
• Feeling more confident about what you say yes or no to during this season
• How to make space in your life - both physical and virtual space before the holidays pile on
• Planning ahead to make sure you don't spend too much

Resources:

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How would it feel to go from chaos in your home and life to organized with systems in place?

If anyone has the answers about how to do this, it's my guests on the latest podcast episode Joni Weiss and Kitt Fife from Practically Perfect. Not only are they professional organizers, they each have three kids and very full schedules to maintain.

In this episode, they share tips on how to create systems that work in your home taking into account the stage your kids are in and your own lifestyle. They give encouragement and examples for how to get the whole family involved in contributing to maintaining your household.

Joni and Kitt also handle some listener questions about hot topics such as handling all those school papers, storing seasonal items, and keeping your kids' toys from taking over your home.

Finally, they give some encouragement to working parents about acknowledging that you're doing your best instead of beating yourself up about what you didn't do.

Highlights:

• Joni & Kitt reveal whether professional organizers have perfectly neat homes or not
• How to know if an organizing system is going to work in your own home
• Why it can be important to get the kids involved in putting things away and maintaining the systems you have
• Tricks for organizing your lifestyle when you have full schedules and kids
• Being kind to yourself as a working parent
• Thoughts on setting limits on social media
• The trick for handling all those papers your kids bring home
• How to store your seasonal items
• Systems for handling your kids' toys

Today's Guest:

Joni and Kitt are Certified Professional Organizers®, working moms and co-founders of a successful professional organizing company in Los Angeles. Since 2014, Practically Perfect has completed more than 250 client projects and has grown to a team of 9 organizers.

Joni and Kitt, close friends with undeniable professional synergy, created Practically Perfect with a mission to help clients achieve tranquility in their lives through organizational systems that are realistic and maintainable.

Prior to the inception of Practically Perfect, Joni was an award-winning early childhood educator. She has always believed that there is a deep connection between an organized environment and productive, successful engagement. Joni remains passionate about helping families create spaces that foster age-appropriate independence, connection and harmony.

As a highly-regarded event planner in Washington, D.C., Kitt's knack for organizing professionally was abundantly clear. Upon moving to Los Angeles, she recognized a personal need for organization in her life to counterbalance the burgeoning clutter that accompanies a growing family.

Joni and Kitt's partnership harmoniously combines their distinct perspectives on organizing to produce innovative and unparalleled results. The Practically Perfect team is distinguished for using client-specific criteria, including attention to household functionality and design preferences, to ensure that solutions are both practical and perfect.

Resources:

www.practicallyperfectla.com Practically Perfect Instagram Practically Perfect Facebook Practically Perfect Twitter Practically Perfect Pinterest Artkive Practically Perfect Episode

Should you follow your passion or that idea in your head? What does it take to make your own opportunity to follow it?

You don't have to take a big leap to follow that idea in your head. We've had it completely wrong that you'll have a magic opportunity to do the thing that you've been thinking about at some point down the road. The secret is that you make your own opportunity.

Not only that, but you can start right now - without changing your entire life. I give you all the details on how to do exactly that in this episode.

Highlights:

• Why following that idea or passion is not just luck
• The dreams coworkers shared with me when I left my corporate job
• Why you may not be ready to follow your passion yet
• What it might take to follow your passion or make your own opportunity
• Ideas for how you can get started right now without changing your entire life

What if you believed in yourself regardless of past missteps or failures?

Jen Hatzung is my guest in this episode sharing her own career journey with all of its twists and turns. She's the first person to own her so-called failures and recognize why each step was meant to be a part of her journey.

In the second part of the episode, we talk about affirmations - what they are and how they can help you on your own path. Jen recently started a company, Abundant Affirmations, that provides affirmation cards to encourage women to believe they are worthy of success, happiness, wealth, and abundance.

If you've ever wondered what you were meant to do, but weren't sure if you were on the right path, you won't want to miss this episode.

Highlights:

• Jen shares her career journey and the twists and turns it has taken
• The self-described failures in her path and what she learned from them
• Her two successful podcasts and why she stepped away from both
• Why she started her company Abundant Affirmations
• What affirmations are and why they might have an impact on your life

Today's Guest:

Jen Hatzung recently decided to embrace the idea that she is a serial entrepreneur and that failing is a part of her story. She is the founder of Abundant Affirmations. She makes affirmation cards to empower women to change the mean girl inner voice they have to one that encourages and empowers them all while helping them dip their toes in the woo-woo waters. Whether you drink the woo-woo kool-aid or you're only ready to test the waters, Abundant Affirmations is for you.

Jen is on a mission to help women believe they are worthy of success, happiness, wealth, and abundance. She lives in Norfolk, VA with her naval officer husband, toddler and dachshund. She can be found drinking copious amounts of coffee or wine (depending on the time of day) while making lists and strategizing when she can fit in her next run.

Resources:

AbundantAffirmations.com Abundant Affirmations instagram Abundant Affirmations Facebook Enneagram test

Do you want to set goals that actually move the needle in your life?

I've spent years setting goals and achieving them, but I've learned a few things along the way about how to set the right goals. Goals that actually impact your life instead of being another task you've checked off the list. It starts with setting the right goals.

In this episode, I talk about how to set the right goals and tips to prevent the mistakes you can make along the way to setting your goals. I also talk about what to do after you set your goals to ensure you are on track to achieving them.

Highlights:

• The most important part of achieving goals
• The difference between meaningful goals and meaningless goals
• Why your goals should be unique to you
• The mistake people make in not addressing the real needs in their lives
• Tips for how to actually achieve the goals once you've set them
• My favorite tool for setting and tracking goals

Resources:

Powersheets (affiliate link)

Would you sell 90% of your possessions and travel?

My guest today, Hannah Sutor, did exactly that and has been living with her family out of an RV for the last year. We discuss why she made this choice, how she handled other people's opinions, and the mindset it took to actually take this leap.

She also shares the reality behind this life - how they were able to keep an income coming in, what it's been like to raise a child on the road, and the challenges that come with the RV lifestyle. If you're curious about living an unconventional lifestyle, you aren't going to want to miss this episode!

Highlights:

• Why Hannah came up with the idea to live in an RV
• What reactions they got from those around them when they made this decision
• The mindset it took to to take the leap
• The challenges that come with the RV lifestyle
• How they've created an income while on the road
• What it's been like doing this while raising a child

Today's Guest:

Hannah Sutor is living life on the road in a 36 foot RV with her 2 year old daughter and husband. After selling their home and 90% of their possessions, they set out for full-time RV life in August 2017 and have been in pursuit of new experiences across the USA ever since. Hannah prides herself on being a woman of her word, getting things done, and staying true to herself.

Resources:

Follow Hannah on Instagram www.rollingonawhim.com

What's it been like for me to be a full-time entrepreneur for the last two years?

There seems to be a trend right now in talking about how going out on your own is the goal or the only way to be happy without all the constraints of a 9-to-5 or corporate job. I don't agree that it's the path for everyone or even that it should be the goal.

It's now been 2 years since I left my corporate job as a VP of sales to a tech company to become a full-time entrepreneur. In this episode, I'm sharing the good, bad, and ugly of what I've learned about full-time entrepreneurship.

Highlights:

• Why I left my corporate job to become an entrepeneur
• The reasons why this shift has been fulfilling
• Why setting my own schedule is both a positive and negative
• The disadvantages of being a solo entrepreneur
• Two big things I've struggled with since leaving my corporate job