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There’s a difference between posting information, links, and videos on your Facebook page and actually connecting to the person you’re wanting to help and work with.

One of the most powerful ways we can connect with our perfect-fit follower is by sharing our story with them - the stories that make us who we are and drive us to do the work that we do.

In this episode of The Refreshed Life Podcast, Kelly and Deanna are joined by husband and wife creative marketing team Joshua Noonan & Enrika Greathouse of Small Gorilla as they share how our storytelling skills can help us not only build deeper relationships with our people, but also help turn them into faithful, trusting fans and customers.

JOSHUA NOONAN & ENRIKA GREATHOUSE OF SMALL GORILLA

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This challenge is perfect for you if:

• You have or are preparing to start a new business.
• You've been providing content via social media, podcast, blogging, or YouTube but haven't begun selling anything yet.
• You have something to sell, but are not sure if it's a right fit for you or your audience.
• You just want more clarity around your first paid offer.

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Thanksgiving and Christmas are (basically) here, so we’re chatting about ways to save time and money this holiday season as we juggle business and family. 

Dr. Nicki Snyder, Creator of (the former) The Things She Does Podcast,  Nurse Practitioner and hacks master joins us as our guest host. 

It’s a lot of fun and laughs as all three of us share our time-saving tips for the end of the year.

What we talk about:

• Making gift-giving simpler and less hassle.
• Shopping and staying on budget.
• The guilt moms feel around spending different amounts on our kids.
• Getting on top of our December schedule NOW.
• Taking the crazy out of teacher gifts.
• And we’re laughing a whole, whole lot.

Resources mentioned:

My Subscription Addiction: https://www.mysubscriptionaddiction.com/

NICKI SNYDER

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Are you ready to start selling a paid offer for your new business? Take the FREE “Create My Paid Offer” Challenge to start the process.

This challenge is perfect for you if:

• You have or are preparing to start a new business.
• You've been providing content via social media, podcast, blogging, or YouTube but haven't begun selling anything yet.
• You have something to sell, but are not sure if it's a right fit for you or your audience.
• You just want more clarity around your first paid offer.

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It’s Season 3 of The Refreshed Life Podcast and we’re joined by Instagram Marketing Coach Sallie Maupin with an episode dedicated to using Instagram to grow a direct sales/network marketing business.

If you’re:

• Confused on how to move your direct sales business past your family and friends.
• Exhausted by cold calls/messages.
• Wanting to leverage Instagram in a more strategic way.
• New to using online marketing methods to grow your business.

Then this episode is exactly for you.

Quotable:

“When your writing out your content, you have to have your ideal client in mind.” ~Sallie Maupin

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Are you ready to start selling a paid offer for your new business? Take the FREE “Create My Paid Offer” Challenge to start the process.

This challenge is perfect for you if:

• You have or are preparing to start a new business.
• You've been providing content via social media, podcast, blogging, or YouTube but haven't begun selling anything yet.
• You have something to sell, but are not sure if it's a right fit for you or your audience.
• You just want more clarity around your first paid offer.

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In order for busy moms to successfully reach their business goals, planning is a top priority. Quarterly planning is a tool we believe in and use in order to forecast important family events, personal life seasons, and project tasks and deadlines.

And in our Season 2 wrap-up episode, we're chatting about how we do it.

Our discussion includes:

• The purpose and benefits of mompreneurs creating a quarterly plan: how it helps us to push projects forward, manage tasks more easily, track progress, and achieve goals.
• Why it's important to understand the yearly and seasonal rhythms of your family, your business, and yourself.
• The tools for creating an effective quarterly plan, from vision casting to brainstorming to assigning project priorities. 
• Deanna explains how her quarterly planning template informs her weekly workflow - and we offer the template for you to download!

Quotables:

“You gotta take that goal and know that there are a bunch of tiny little things that encompass completing it.”

“You can’t do all the things at the same time, and learning your capacity is how you can target achievement.”

“You have to allow margin and white space. When you are in a season with kids and aging parents, we have accountability in different aspects of our lives - and when something pops up, we have to react.”

“When it changes, just change it. It doesn’t mean you’re wishy-washy. It means you have more clarity.”

Resources Mentioned:
Deanna's Quarterly Planning Template
Do Less, Kate Northrup
Jadah Sellner
Getting Unstuck with Alicia Michele
Artist formerly known as Prince

Shout-out wins:
Caroline Owen
Toni Campbell
Michelle Massey
Carrie Wiwcharuk

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Did you know that the visual presentation of your business and brand plays a big part in communicating with your potential clients? From your graphics, fonts, and colors to pictures of yourself - they all play a part in communicating your message to your client and to the world.

In this episode, Deanna chats with the amazing Brandilyn Davidson of Brandilyn Davidson Photography about the importance of your online visual brand and the steps to take to developing a beautiful and professional look for your business.

Resources Mentioned

Book: Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak up, Create and Lead, by Tara Mohr

Blog Post: How to Prep for a Brand Photo Shoot

QUOTES:
"However someone is feeling when having their picture taken is how they are going to look." ~Brandilyn

"I want to help the women that I work with to feel the way I see them - (beautiful)." ~Brandilyn

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After working on our own podcast for over a year, in this episode, we’re discussing our top lessons learned, favorite resources, and best practices in order to give you the extra push you may need to jump in with two feet and start your own podcast!

Listen to our discussion on important considerations for starting a podcast, including:

• Your availability
• Your equipment
• Your resources
• Your purpose
• How to work with a co-host
• How to use interviews
• How to launch well

Laugh and learn as we candidly discuss what has worked for us, what we’ve had to tweak, what we are still working on with The Refreshed Life Podcast, and how all of this can help you start your own!

Resources Mentioned in Introduction:

IG Marketing Coach Sallie Maupin

Video Editing App: Clips

Content Marketing Coach: Brenna McGowan, The Social Rescue

Equipment: (always check to be sure the equipment is compatible with your computer)
Microphone Kit
USB Adapter
Microphone Cord
https://www.instagram.com/thesocialrescue/

Resources:
Audacity tutorial for podcasters
Zoom (recording)
Pat Flynn’s free tutorials
Audacity (editing)
Garage Band (editing)
Buzzsprout (podcast library / portal to streaming services - Affiliate Link)
Libsyn (podcast library / portal to streaming services)
Refreshed Life sample interview form

Podcasts we mentioned:
Entertainment Weekly: Binge   Best of Shows   The Awardist
Live Awake Podcast with Sarah Blondin
NIckie Snyder
Jadah Selner
Claudia Cometa: Refreshed Life Ep   Minding Wellness
Kate & Mike Show
Sherry & Nancy Show
Donald Miller, Storybrand

Have you ever gotten excited about setting a goal you feel passionately about, only to find yourself falling off the wagon after the first few days of chipping away at it?

We’ve all been there - you start off strong and determined, but then life happens and you find yourself falling back into the oh-so-familiar (and possibly comfortable) rut you’re so desperately trying to climb out of.

Think about it:

• That course you bought but never finished.
• That conference you left feeling hyped and ready to conquer the world, and then you came home and your kids passed the flu to each other for a straight month.
• You and your hubby scheduled date nights each week, but when 7pm rolled around that Friday night you were exhausted, and Netflix and Chill (with the kids in the room) just seemed easier.
• You’ve been meaning to write that thing or start that thing or do that thing in your business… but just haven’t done it yet.
• You joined a gym. (mic drop)

You’re stuck. No forward movement. Just the same ol’ same. Nothing is getting accomplished.

Here’s the thing - will power and determination is not enough to get things going. They can only take you so far.

If you don’t address the mindsets causing your behaviors in the first place, you might as well give up on seeing long term change.

And that’s what this show is about! 

In this episode, Alicia Michelle of Vibrant Christian Living talks about how your mindset plays a huge part in taking small steps towards achieving your goals, and is the secret sauce to getting unstuck in your life, your self-care, and your business.

RESOURCES & LINKS:
Vibrant Christian Living Podcast #29 - Big Change Starts With a Small Shift

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Mompreneurs need love - and so do their partners! On this episode - and in the midst of celebrating our own respective wedding anniversaries - we're sharing some great ideas for date nights, date days, and date mornings. And to add to the fun, these connection-focused escapades can be enjoyed for around $30 or less.

It was so much fun to have our listeners weigh in with their date night experiences,  recommending utilizing local points of interest, a variety of takes on the classic picnic, creative meals, and moving your body as ways to date your spouse with intention, but not a lot of expense.

What you’ll hear:

• Why it's important as a married mompreneur to make consistent time for your spouse.
• “If you have [to choose] to pay a babysitter [or go out with your spouse], pay a babysitter and go on a cheap date.”
• “The most important thing we’re trying to achieve with date night is connection and time.”
• A gazillion takes on "the picnic."
• How exploring local opportunities for play can be both fun and budget-friendly.
• Sometimes less is more - you don't need extravagance to have a fun, meaningful time together. 
• And a fun idea that may or may not include an artichoke.

RESOURCES & LINKS:
Yes! Redbox does stream.
Video: How to Eat an Artichoke

Thanks to all the listeners who contributed ideas to this episode, including:
Michelle Massey
Carrie Wiwcharuk
Kizmat Tention (Book: Broken Little Pieces)

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Deanna is joined by Guest Host Nickie Snyder to chat about 6 things to think about before you make the decision to turn a hobby - that you currently enjoy and love - into a business for profit.

What you’ll hear:

• How to prepare for the learning curve of entrepreneurship
• The decision to take on all of the “unsexy” parts of business that are currently not present as you enjoy your hobby.
• The process of figuring out how much money you’re really trying to make, and if it merits taking on entrepreneurship.
• What to do when the going gets rough in your business.
• When to know you’re ready to take the plunge!

RESOURCES & LINKS:

The Things She Does Podcast Episode 81: What To Do With a Costco Chicken
The Refreshed Life Podcast Episode 109: When to Pivot in Your Business

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Blogger and mom of littles Ashley Conway joins us for a look at how to gracefully back out of commitments, how to weigh whether a commitment is good for you in the first place, and how to decipher most urgent versus most important tasks when pursuing entrepreneurship.

What you’ll hear:

• What we Moms do in order to record podcasts, and shout-outs to the Boss Dads that help make it possible.
• The difference between a busy and a fruitful life.
• How to start a day well and also flex to accommodate the needs of children.
• Tips for new bloggers: setting priority and pace
• “Moms can’t always say, ‘I’m sticking to this schedule.’ It doesn’t work that way.”
• How we women walk around with a lot of “shoulds” - most of them are self-imposed.
• Ashley walks us through the 6 steps to backing out of commitments gracefully.
• The difference between task-oriented and relational personalities, and how this affects our perspective and communication.
• The importance of sincere apologies.
• Why setting boundaries when making a commitment aids with understanding for everyone later. 

“Rabbit Trails” of note:
Outlander & Jamie Fraser (Outlander book series)

The importance of “snacks” in family life.

We collectively lose our minds a little about the state of staffing church nurseries.

RESOURCES & LINKS:

• Krystal Payne/Money Saving Mom, on Washing Your Hair
• Kelly’s Pop Culture Podcast
• Emily Freeman: What is the next right step?
• Geri Scazzero: The Emotionally Healthy Woman
• Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend: Boundaries

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