If you are a “woman of a certain age,” then this is the podcast episode for you!  Another connection from my Pod Pals experiences, I connected with Daphne at one of Adam’s bi-weekly chats.  Daphne shares her experiences as a podcaster side hustler and as an insurance broker.  And I definitely learned a thing or two about life insurance that is going to help me as that “woman of a certain age.”  

Daphne Jones is a life insurance broker in Houston Texas. After more than 20 years of military service and work in corporate America, she has been helping her clients with their life insurance needs since 2015. She has a passion for making complex topics relatable and understandable, empowering you to make informed and effective decisions with your financial resources.

Her free resources include:

https://thesmartmoneychick.com/

https://www.instagram.com/thesmartmoneychick/

And...WE’RE BACK!  I’m so excited to be back from Summer Break and here to share new episodes and lots of cool stuff!  

Did you hear?  I launched a membership!  And for GOT SIDE HUSTLE listeners, you can get a pretty sweet deal when you join us.  Just go to krismcpeak.com/SSHS and get 50% off your first month PLUS a Podcast Listener ONLY monthly discount!

My guest this week is Julie Butler, from Stock by Jewels.  Julie is a 40-something Canadian wife and mamma of two witty boys and 2 fur babies, and she started her business as a self-taught portrait photographer over 13 years ago.

She's a simple country girl at heart, but has been living in the city for 20+ years! She's a creative being who loves gardening & all things pink. She loves mornings & lattes and is overall a pretty happy and positive person, life is a gift, and she feels incredibly grateful and happy to be living this life … in her yoga pants 😉.

Her mission is to help female entrepreneurs who are in love with what they do, build & grow their business so that they can achieve a level of success that goes above and beyond by creating irresistible high converting brands that let them connect with their dream clients.

https://stockbyjewels.com/resources/

Hey everyone!  Hope you're continuing to enjoy the Greatest Hits!  We are about two weeks away from being back to new content.  Meanwhile...enjoy this oldie but goodie about BURNOUT.

Well, it happened!  The World Health Organization has finally come up with a medical diagnosis for burnout.  In the workplace, at least, not in life. 

Still - this shit is REAL.  Read about the new diagnosis here.  

But meanwhile - we still have to figure out ways to avoid it, right?  So Forbes and I have come up with Five Strategies (that is, Forbes shared the strategies, I'm coming up with some additional tips and resources).

Don't forget that the music for the Elevate Your 8 Podcast comes from Ben Sound.  

 Sleep Smarter, by Shawn Stevenson.

Big Bang Theory

The Odd Couple Restaurant Scene

The Toy Wonder Wheel Scene

Try Masters Swimming Week

SilverPeak Performance

OH MY GOD - I am so honored and excited to share today’s episode of Elevate Your 8 - it’s quite possibly the biggest deal interview to date!

My guest today is Sarah Knight - NY Best Selling Author of books such as “The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck,” “Get Your Shit Together,” “You Do You,” “Calm the Fuck Down,” and the newest, “Fuck No!”  

Before Sarah became an “anti-guru,” she spent fifteen years as a book editor in New York City.  The utterly terrifying decision to quit that career underpins much of the advice in her best-selling No Fucks Given Guides series.

In the NFGG’s, Sarah writes about mental health, setting goals, taking risks,  getting motivated, getting organized, and all the usual self-help stuff...but she does it with profanity and silly charts and long-form analogies involving cartoon chipmunks.  It DOES work. 

It was such a joy to talk with Sarah and realize that we are simpatico with many of our own philosophies - plus she also prefers Diet Coke to Diet Pepsi and Madonna to GaGa. 

MEANWHILE - I'm cooking up some very cool stuff during this Summer Break...including a NEW membership and a FREE Masterclass.  You can register for the masterclass HERE.  it's happening on Saturday, July 24th at 10 am PST.  I'll see you there!

I've got more vacation going on this week - I'm doing a Staycation while some of my teammates from SilverPeak Performance are in North Carolina swimming at Short Course Yards Nationals.  

This week is all about self-care for me.  I'm planning to spend some good quality time alone, with Duke (my dog) and some friends of mine.  It's time to spoil myself, my dog, and get my routine back.  

See, I've had a bit of a tough time coming out of Covid, getting back to work five days a week, AND balancing all this other "stuff," so it's time to get back to basics.  More on that later.

And, of course, I'm launching my membership this week, "The Smart Side Hustle Society."  You can still get on the waitlist, OR register for my Saturday webinar, "How to Run Your Side Hustle in Just One Hour a Day."  Either way, y'all are in for a treat!

See you SOON!!!

It's been almost two years since this episode launched...and in that time, I've come to think of Adam Schaeuble as not only a coach and mentor but as a really amazing friend.  Adam gives so much of himself with every lesson, every podcast episode, and every hilarious Instagram Reel.  

This was my first collaboration with Adam, but it won't be the last.  Adam will likely be providing a masterclass for the Smart Side Hustle Society and he's shared some great material with me that I'll be posting after the summer vacation.  

Meanwhile, enjoy this episode, one of the Greatest Hits of Elevate Your 8.

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I am SO effing excited to publish this show!  I had an absolute blast talking with Adam Schaeuble, the Ph.D. (Previously Heavy Dude) of the Million Pound Mission and Casting the Pod.  Adam shares some of his story on how he lost 100 pounds, opened his own gym and shared his passion for health and fitness around his community in Bloomington, Indiana.  Five years later, Adam has helped the citizens of Bloomington lose over 35,000 pounds and he's not stopping until the nation reaches ONE MILLION!

Adam and I share a love of 90's pop culture (Party Time, Excellent!), letting our passion be our purpose; and, of course, podcasting!  Make sure you listen to the very end of the show to catch the "blooper" cut!  

To learn more about Adam, check out his bio HERE.

And here are ways you can connect with Adam:

Instagram

Million Pound Mission

Casting the Pod

I hope you are having an amazing summer so far.  I thought I would just pop in and give you a quick update on my break!

• Family Vacation
• New Membership and Masterclass

I'm enjoying the downtime and I can't wait to get back to it!  See you soon!

This episode is my most downloaded one to date!  And that makes me giggle because of that whole "shake it off" thing.  

But seriously - it's so easy to let one little insignificant thing wreck your whole day...

That TPS report thing...

The damned copier...

Not enough pieces of flair...

You get the picture.  So rather than let the day tank or destroy the copier, use one of these ten little tricks to shake off the bad day and move on.  

You CAN do it.  And it's super easy...and fun, too.

Meanwhile - while Got Side Hustle is on summer break, I'm gearing up to launch my first membership program, The Smart Side Hustle Society.  You can get on the waitlist today and get all the launch updates...PLUS you'll be eligible for lots of pre-launch goodies!  

I'm really excited to re-release this episode on how your values impact your productivity and vice-versa.  

We go where our values lead us.  If we value getting lots of shit done, our time management will focus entirely on finishing those projects and moving to the next thing.  If we value scrolling and kicking it, then we get very little done, but maybe we feel good about that in the immediate here and now.

Either way - this is a conversation you must have with yourself every time you chose activities and priorities.  

But don't stress about it - ease into it, learn and grow.

You've got this.

Meanwhile - I'm SO excited to be launching my first membership, The Smart Side Hustle Society, and it's time for YOU to get on the waitlist so you get the first shot at all the launch goodies!  CLICK HERE to get on the waitlist today!

SO:  here’s the deal.  Finals are over, summer is officially here, and I’ve come to realize that I have WAY too much on my plate.  Even though the college doesn’t close, there’s still that underlying notion that things should slow down, get a little easier, right?

No fucking way.  I’m busier than I’ve ever been.  And I’ve got to get some stuff off my plate.

In this episode, I’m talking about what I need to do to get my priorities in gear.  How I want to realign my life and get things in order.  And I’ve decided that Got Side Hustle is going on summer break.  

So you’ll be treated to the Greatest Hits of Elevate Your 8 and Got Side Hustle while I realign my shit - and then I’ll be back with new vigor and energy.  Because I deserve it - and you all, especially, y’all deserve it too!

Original Music for GOT SIDE HUSTLE is composed and performed by Chris Corral.

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