Episode 111: Stacey Harris

Introducing Stacey Harris

Stacey Harris is marketing strategist working with entrepreneurs who are tired of spending hours online with no results. Through her podcast, membership community, and agency she supports frustrated leaders in getting results online by building connection.

Show Notes

Website | thestaceyharris.com

Podcast | hitthemicbackstage.com

Twitter | thestaceyharris

Facebook | thestaceyharris

Instagram | thestaceyharris

Linked In | thestaceyharris

Preferred Pronouns | She/Her

Episode Transcript

Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress.

Liam: We ask questions, and our guests share their stories, ideas, and perspectives.

Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 111.

Tara: Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Tara Claeys.

Liam: And I’m Liam Dempsey. Today, we’re joined by Stacey Harris. Stacy is a marketing strategist working with entrepreneurs who are tired of spending hours online with no results. Through her own podcast, membership, community, and agency, she supports frustrated leaders in getting results online by building connections. Welcome, Stacy.

Stacey: Hi, thanks for having me.

Tara: Hi, Stacy, we’re really glad to meet you. Thanks for joining us. Can you please tell us more about yourself?

Stacey: Sure. In addition to running my business, I’m also a mom and a wife, and I live in Southern California. I generally can be found either in the office at Disneyland or at the beach. And that’s pretty much the entirety of my world.

Tara: Wow. So Southern California is a good place to be for you then.

Stacey: It is. It is a good place. I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, which is quite hot. So we spend just about as much time as possible not inside. Kind of always out somewhere.

Tara: That’s great. You spend a lot of time with entrepreneurs, and so you are also an entrepreneur. Can you tell us a little bit about your journey to becoming that? Have you always work for yourself or what’s your path?

Stacey: I’ve worked for myself for about eight years. I do not come from entrepreneurial stock. My parents are both in law enforcement, and before that my grandparents worked for school districts and telecom companies. Very much so like you work 25 years, you get a pension kind of people. However, I am a terrible employee. I don’t respond well to being bossed around, and I don’t like to follow a bad plan, which corporate is full of.

It’s funny, I tell my team regularly, the one answer we do not accept is we do this because it’s always been done that way. It is the one answer you’re not allowed to give me. I don’t care how long we’ve done it some way. If there’s a better way, let’s do it that way. I’ve owned my company for about eight years. It’s gone through quite the journey.

I actually started as a virtual assistant, mostly because I’d had my son, who was about two years old. I had been staying at home. I’m not built to be a stay at home mom, it takes somebody way cooler than me. I missed the part of my brain that functioned independent of a child but I didn’t really have any desire to go back to work. My degree is in audio engineering. I had worked for a record label in Phoenix before I had my son, and I didn’t really want to go back to doing any of that long hours and late nights in studios and wha...