Sick and Successful Podcast

Recently, I spoke at a wonderful virtual event hosted by Dora Rankin. It was in her Facebook group, "The Women Who Soar, Women Making $$$ Collective." I spoke about social media marketing strategies for business, which was amazing. So I am sharing that talk with you today. 

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Alongside that interview, I created a 40-page e-book with absolutely everything you need to know about social media. I give away our secret sauce on a proven method for creating a hashtag strategy that will boost your engagement, go in-depth on profile optimization, how to know where your target audience is, and so much more. If you are a business owner, you will get value from this book. You can get it here: http://sandscreative.ck.page/optimizesocial

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I also urge you to join Dora’s Facebook group, The Women Who Soar, Women Making $$$ Collective, because Dora really pours herself into that group, and there are many amazing speakers that can bring value to you and your business. Join the group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/888815824981819/?ref=share

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Did this episode bring value to you regarding social media strategy and optimization?

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Connect with Dora through these links:

Website: https://www.gypsysoulcoaching.com/

Sales & Lead Generation Workshop: https://www.gypsysoulcoaching.com/masterclass

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00:03:18 - Welcome to The Women Who Soar!

00:04:02 - Who is Natalie Suppes?

00:08:57 - What is the definition of Social Media Strategy?

00:09:54 - Where do we all miss the mark the most?

00:10:41 - What does a Social Media Plan consist of?

00:11:36 - How do entrepreneurs start thinking about their target audience?

00:13:32 - What do you mean by analytics?

00:14:39 - Why build a social media strategy?

00:16:03 - Do you recommend having the same strategy?

00:17:10 - How do you engage with your audience and the audience you want to grow?

00:19:58 - What’s inside the S&S Social Media Workbook?

00:27:38 - Why are hashtags important, and what do they actually do?

00:29:29 - How can people work with S&S Creative?

00:32:59 - Why did Natalie start S&S Creative?

00:33:45 - How would you start a strategy for a B2B?

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Let’s stay connected through these links:

Our website: http://www.sandscreative.ca

Podcast Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/sickandsuccessful_

Our business Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/s.and.s.creative

Natalie's personal Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/for.the.success

Lately, my chronic illness has been scaring me more than it has in a long time. In this episode, I share with you why and how that is affecting my business.

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People who are sick and successful are just made differently. Do you agree?

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It takes a lot out of a person to do regular everyday things. On top of that, being a mom, wife, and an entrepreneur while dealing with a Crohn’s flare, I am finding myself constantly fatigued, burnt out, and ultimately just tired. I love what I do, and I’m very passionate about my business. The illness doesn’t change that, but it does make it much harder to run than when I was in remission.

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December 2022 was plagued with illness for us. We had a fever for what lasted about 2 weeks. Thankfully, we were healthy during the holidays but eventually got sick again. I feel like I haven’t given any updates about my Crohn’s disease in a while, especially about this most recent flare, so that is what this episode is about.

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I will share with you what’s going on in my mind daily, why I’m so scared of my Crohn’s disease, and how it’s affecting my business.

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Being sick and successful doesn’t mean that every day is easy or glamorous. There are many extremely tough times and battles to be fought too. I want to share both sides of that with you authentically.

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00:01:11 - Quick rundown of what happened in December

00:01:46 - What I will share with you today

00:01:59 - Here’s how you can show your love for the podcast!

00:02:33 - My words for 2023

00:03:04 - I made a sick and successful Tiktok! Follow me there!

00:03:10 - Should I continue with Youtube? Help me decide!

00:03:23 - What it’s like to have a Crohn’s disease flare, with many other side effects like erythema nodosum, and extreme anemia

00:04:29 - Going from multiple years of flare to many years in remission, and then a flare again -  “When you do that for years, you forget that there’s normal. Then, when you have normal for a little, you hit remission.”

00:05:20 - My Crohn’s Disease now

00:06:28 - Why the future of my Crohn’s is scaring me

00:08:19 - How my Crohn’s disease is affecting my business

00:11:06 - What I plan to do this 2023

00:11:47 - I’d appreciate if you do this

00:12:32 - We are a completely different breed

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Let’s stay connected through these links:

Our website: http://www.sandscreative.ca

Podcast Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/sickandsuccessful_

Our business Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/s.and.s.creative

Natalie's personal Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/for.the.success

Happy New year, everyone! I hope you had a lot of fun celebrating!

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I’m excited about today’s episode, which will be slightly different from previous podcast episodes.

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I was interviewed by Molly, one of our Ready, Set, Record alumnae. Without spoiling too much, she shared her feedback from my course and how it helped and motivated her to start her podcast and even become a podcast manager in the future!

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She shared 5 highlights or 5 things she learned from the course and asked me 5 excellent questions considering that this is her first podcast interview! I’m so proud of her.

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Listen as we share our insights about my Ready, Set, Record program!

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Are you interested in taking the course and building your podcast with me?

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00:00:55 - What we're doing for this episode

00:01:00 - Meet Molly, a Ready, Set, Record (RSR) alumnae

00:02:36 - Molly's Feedback for RSR

00:03:19 - Celebrating Natalie's 100 episodes!

00:03:38 - Question 1: Why do you think it’s important that we consider how we conserve our community, how we serve the audience listening to our podcast?

00:07:25 - What Molly learned from Module 2 of RSR

00:09:26 - Question 2: What is your pre-recording ritual today and how has that changed from when you started your Sick and Successful Podcast?

00:13:08 - Your cover art can make or break your show

00:14:12 - Question 3: What’s the worst cover art you’ve seen and why?

00:17:14 - Do we have to love our cover art?

00:18:17 - What makes your podcast unique is YOU

00:19:12 - Question 4: What if I have weird quirks or if I’m insecure about things and those come out? What will people think?

00:20:42 - What Modules 5 and 6 are about

00:21:35 - Question 5: What is your first successful pitch?

00:24:38 - The future of Ready, Set, Record

00:31:09 - What's next for Molly and where to find her

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Connect with Molly on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nextflighttospain/ 

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Let’s stay connected through these links:

Our website: http://www.sandscreative.ca

Podcast Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/sickandsuccessful_

Our business Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/s.and.s.creative

Natalie's personal Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/for.the.success

We’re a few days away from 2023! Can you believe it!?

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A lot of things happened in 2022, and it went by so fast! I’m really grateful for the challenges, milestones, and lessons I learned this year. Aside from looking back and being grateful for the year that has been, we also have to prepare for the year to come.

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So, for this episode, I will share with you how I manifested where I am now and how you can manifest your dream life in 2023!

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So, have you made your own vision board? How are you manifesting your dream life in 2023? I’d love to know!

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00:01:33 - My goal for 2023

00:02:22 - Something I really struggle with

00:04:49 - Happy Holidays!

00:05:37 - What "manifest" means to me

00:08:48 - One of the first things I did as an entrepreneur

00:09:48 - Visualizing your dream life is very powerful

00:10:19 - I urge you to do this

00:13:06 - What you need to do after visualizing

00:15:09 - Take a moment to do this every single day and watch your life transform

00:15:46 - Have this mindset heading into 2023!

00:16:58 - Making 2023 the best year you've ever had is all up to you

00:17:35 - I'd love to hear from you!

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Let’s stay connected through these links:

Our website: http://www.sandscreative.ca

Podcast Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/sickandsuccessful_

Our business Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/s.and.s.creative

Natalie's personal Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/for.the.success

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way~ 🎶🎅🎁🎄

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I feel like Christmas is the holiday I am most excited about because I get to see my family, and the overall vibe is full of joy, even when it’s freezing outside.

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Speaking of the holidays, today’s episode is just about that.

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I will share with you my Christmas memories as a kid and as an only child, how the holidays looked like when I was chronically ill in uni, and how excited I am for Christmas now as a mother.

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Are you excited about the holidays as much as I am?

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00:00:58 - My daughter's bedtime routine

00:01:34 - What this episode is all about

00:01:57 - My childhood memories of Christmas

00:03:45 - I don't mind being an only child

00:04:35 - The reason why I love the holidays as a kid

00:04:45 - Our Polish Christmas traditions

00:05:57 - Giving gifts as a love language

00:06:13 - The holidays as an adult and as a mother

00:07:06 -What it's like to be chronically ill during the holidays

00:09:49 - A few reasons why I love the holidays

00:10:46 - Spread the holiday joy with me by doing this

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Let’s stay connected through these links:

Our website: http://www.sandscreative.ca

Podcast Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/sickandsuccessful_

Our business Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/s.and.s.creative

Natalie's personal Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/for.the.success

I am so obsessed with our brand. Every part of our logo has a meaning, and if you’re watching on Youtube, I’m even wearing our merch!

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It’s been an interesting journey for me as an entrepreneur because I started this business without setting my eyes on offering a virtual assistant service, and yet, here I am!

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For this episode, I will talk about my company, S & S Creative, our Support Specialist Service, how much we’ve grown in that area, and how phenomenal we are in what we do.

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Have you ever thought of hiring a virtual assistant to help you in your business?

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00:01:53 - What this episode is about

00:02:05 - Let's talk about TikTok for a bit

00:03:31 - "I never got into this business to have a virtual assistance agency."

00:04:12 - What S & S Creative can do for your business

00:04:31 - Our target market

00:05:04 - Why I started S & S Creative

00:05:38 -How our Support Specialist Service started

00:07:56 - Our screening process

00:08:18 - How well our Support Specialists are doing

00:08:40 - Why I want to talk about our Support Specialist Service

00:10:49 - How much our Support Specialist Service has grown

00:11:33 - Our business is global!

00:11:48 - Why our team has grown quickly

00:12:09 - What I urge you to do

00:12:40 - Our zone of genius

00:13:06 - "The way that I run this company is different than any other company that I've seen."

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Let’s stay connected through these links:

Our website: http://www.sandscreative.ca

Podcast Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/sickandsuccessful_

Our business Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/s.and.s.creative

Natalie's personal Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/for.the.success

As I’ve mentioned in the past episodes, our company has put a lot of effort into creating a Request for Proposal (RFP).

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Fortunately, all the hard work paid off, and we won! We got the business and started working with our new client.

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Off the bat, I’ve already noticed some red flags but didn’t mind until a particular incident happened, and I realized that working with them isn’t worth all the stress and all the space they’re taking up in my mind.

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I want to tell this story and bring this up because no matter what industry you’re in, there will always be toxic clients.

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This episode is not about them. This episode is for you to audit your life and/or business and share the best advice on what you can do to toxic people.

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Do you have toxic people around you or toxic clients?

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00:01:10 - How it all started

00:01:52 - Why I want to bring this up

00:02:30 - Toxic clients? I urge you to do this.

00:03:03 - THE STORY: Always beware of the red flags!

00:10:20 - "Racism is not something I will allow in my company."

00:11:02 - The final cherry on top

00:14:18 - This is not about them. This is about not being afraid to speak up for what you stand for.

00:15:13 - What firing toxic clients can do for you

00:16:47 - Who's toxic for you or your business?

00:16:59 - Energy is like a cup of water

00:17:20 - It is important to create a culture that aligns with you.

00:17:58 - "There are times when you have to let go of a toxic client just because they're draining you."

00:18:58 - This is your sign!

00:19:11 - We have a Youtube channel!

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Let’s stay connected through these links:

Our website: http://www.sandscreative.ca

Podcast Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/sickandsuccessful_

Our business Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/s.and.s.creative

Natalie's personal Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/for.the.success

There are a lot of Social Media Gurus or Instagram Professionals that tell us a bunch of stuff to grow our following, increase engagements, and all that social media jazz.

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So who’s right, and who are we going to listen to?

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For today’s quick episode, I’ll share with you a hack or a tip that I used to grow my Instagram following, which you can do too!

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So, did this episode give you an idea of what to do to your Instagram account? I’d love to know!

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00:00:55 - This will help you show up and grow your followers on Instagram

00:01:12 - What social media gurus tell you

00:01:48 - A trick I want to share with you

00:03:00 - What’s the point?

00:04:12 - We should name the sick and successful community! Any suggestions?

00:04:24 - We’re back on Instagram!

00:04:58 - What our clients do that you can do too

00:06:00 - "Do what makes you feel best and do what's going to make you show up.

00:06:22 - Do this if you resonate with me

00:06:43 - It’s freezing cold in Canada!

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Let’s stay connected through these links:

Our website: http://www.sandscreative.ca

Podcast Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/sickandsuccessful_

Our business Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/s.and.s.creative

Natalie's personal Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/for.the.success

This is episode 100!

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From Natalie:

First of all, I want to thank you for listening to and supporting this podcast. I wouldn’t be here without YOU! So, thank you for celebrating this milestone with me.

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In divine timing, I just got a Facebook memory the day before I recorded this episode that it has been 3 years since starting this podcast.

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It’s crazy how much can change in 3 years.

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But what didn’t change is how passionate I am for sharing the message of #SickandSuccessful ever since I was diagnosed in 2007, the summer before university. I knew my illness would not stop me from being successful. I want you to know it's not only possible for me. It's possible for you!

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If you’ve been my podcast listener for a while now, you might have heard me say “sick and successful” several times.

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But do you know what that truly means to me?

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Well, that’s what we’re going to talk about today!

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Since it’s the 100th episode of the Sick and Successful Podcast, I will share with you what it truly means to me and how important it is in my life.

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What does sick and successful mean to you? Does it resonate with you? I’d love to know!

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Listen to Episode 2 on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3UUHw46

Listen to Episode 2 on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3hZFBwP

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00:01:02 - 3-year anniversary of having this podcast!

00:01:15 - “It’s crazy what happens when you put your mind to something, and you do it consistently.”

00:02:16 - A lot can change in 3 years

00:03:06 - What does sick and successful mean to you?

00:03:40 - Why I’m passionate about “sick and successful

00:05:16 - You’re not alone!

00:07:03 - This will make you appreciate life more

00:07:12 - My last hospital stay

00:08:04 - My passion and mission in life

00:09:00 - What keeps me going despite being chronically ill

00:09:13 - What sick and successful truly means to me

00:09:53 - What it means to be successful for me today

00:11:55 - My big ask for you

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Let’s stay connected through these links:

Our website: http://www.sandscreative.ca

Podcast Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/sickandsuccessful_

Our business Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/s.and.s.creative

Natalie's personal Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/for.the.success

It’s the 99th episode of the Sick and Successful Podcast. Yay! How amazing is that??

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I just want to share how great it feels that I’ve been posting for 19 weeks straight on Youtube, and I can’t thank my editor, Anastasiia, enough. She’s doing such a fantastic job. If you haven’t subscribed to our Youtube account yet, please do! I will really appreciate it.

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Now, back to this episode.

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If you’ve always wished to have someone to tell you how hard something (owning a business, to be specific) is really going to be, this is it!

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Today, I will share with you some of the things I wish I had known when I started my business, so you can figure things out before you start your business or while you’re in the early months of your business.

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If you’re a new entrepreneur or if you’re already in the beginning stages of your business, this is for you!

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So, did you relate to this episode, or did it provide you with things to think about before starting your business? Send me a DM on Instagram (@for.the.success) or email me ([email protected])!

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Watch this on Youtube: https://youtu.be/fDVpLVHR19Q

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Let’s stay connected through these links:

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www.instagram.com/s.and.s.creative

www.instagram.com/for.the.success

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