The Shift Show

Katy Widrickis a multimedia producer and social media manager.She blogs all about technology, health, fitness, parenting and current events atkatywidrick.com. She’s a certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor  and she also shares tips and tricks for staying healthy in a hectic world. Katy also offers brand building and increasing blog traffic at makemediaover.com and is a syndicate living blogger for the Huffington post and fix.com. She lives in Petersburg, Florida with her husband and two beautiful daughters. 

What is the most under utilized tool that entrepreneurs need to be using?

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Lee Hersh is the blogger and business women behind Fit Foodie Finds. She is a healthy recipe creator, food photographer, risk-taker from Minnesota. She co-runs the Blogger Project which is dedicated to bloggers learning more about the ever changing industry. Lee has transformed her website from just a recipe blog to an entire wellness brand. She is always having fun creating the next best recipe, showing her infectious personality on snapchat and she makes getting a good sweat in fun!

Where do you see yourself and your business in 5 years?

I wish I could predict the future because I have no idea what the internet is going to look like.  If I was doing exactly what I'm doing today in 5 years, I would be very happy.  I want to have kids, I want to raise them, I want to be at home with them and I also want to make 6 figures at the same time. Now, I like to take on a lot of projects so I could see myself kind of dipping my hands into some other businesses, not starting them but kind of joining a team of a business or two in the food space probably.

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In this episode you'll learn:

How to get confidence in your business.

How to do the inner work to move past your limiting beliefs of yourself

Figure out how to identify what means you unique!

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Do you say no enough?

Things that work for us as a family:

I say no a lot. If it doesn’t fit my priorities or serve my family in a positive way, I say no most of the time. For us, that has meant work travel. For this season of our life, our girls are young and we have chose to stay close to home for this time and work our business in a different way. We aren’t at every huge expo with Blissful Eats and that’s okay for us. It’s working.

I set my non-negotiables. Early wake up. Exercise. Shower. Picking out girls clothes.  Morning family time. Bed time (with girls). These things are what I HAVE to do every day or week. We spend 30 minutes all together in the morning before I go down and do work.

Work AWAY from the family: It’s SO easy and tempting to do work in the living room. I can hang with everyone and do work…right? NO. It doesn’t work. I need to be away and focused. When I’m focused I can do 5x as much. Stop with the distractions. Turn your phone off. Close all your tabs in your browser.

Stop being a people pleaser: You can wait to answer that text or respond to that email. It’s totally fine. If you need to have a conversation with your friends and family about this time in your life. Tell them you will do the best you can to get back to them when you have time, but you are focusing on advancing your business…or being present with your kids, whatever it is you’re trying to do.

Turn off phone notifications. I KNOW this is hard one, but is it advancing your business or your life by seeing how many likes you’re getting on instagram? Check it at designated times.

Make a to-do list: Every week I do a brain dump on a master list of things I need to get done. These are things that are moving me forward to reach my goals. Then I pick from that list and add 2-3 things on my to-do list daily. To do list gets done at the same time everyyyyyyy single day. And my to do list isn’t miles long because it all needs to get done i | Show notes: https://awesound.com/@NicoleCulver/fast-friday-the-power-of-no?auid=ay04WWUk

Lindsey is a mom to 2 boys and enjoys traveling the world with her family. As a photographer and social media junkie, Lindsey works with female entrepreneurs to fine tune their online presence and build brand confidence. She works with women to show you that you should have confidence in your brand and know that you should not spend thousands on perfecting your image.

Lindsey has been able to really help female entrepreneurs fine tune their online presence and build brand confidence on and offline.

Social media is a visually captivating platform that you really have to have eye for graphic and design as well as the social aspect of it.

The things that you should definitely be working on is being consistent across all areas of business whether that’s your specific website, connecting with your network or just creating posts seen by the masses.

What are the 3 things that they can do other than posting photos of their product? 

Give a testimonial of the few previous clients that you had.Share your story and why you are so passionate about your product and services.Layout a way for them to contact you and receive something in return.  Start a newsletter, give them something  free and start the relationship without actually selling the product right up front.

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Jessica Merchant is a full-time recipe developer, content creator and blogger. She has been writing the food blog, How Sweet Eats, since 2009, when she finally discovered a way to mesh her passion for building recipes with one of her other favorite things: writing. She is madly, outrageously, inexplicably in love with food. In 2014, she released her first cookbook, the best-selling Seriously Delish. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pa with her husband Eddie and son, Max. In her spare time, she loves reading, writing fiction and practicing yoga. And margaritas. Obviously.

Jessica is a completely self-taught photographer and recipe developer, has a true way with words, and shares herself through recipes, daily musings and, of course, on Snapchat. Jessica loves neon colors, lip gloss, bacon and most importantly is a mom and wife.

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When I started Blissful Eats I was always researching, reading and looking for stories of how entrepreneurs got their start. This podcast is it for you. You’ll hear entrepreneurs share their successes, struggles, lessons learned. I have no doubt you’ll walk away inspired and with something to go do! My goal is to share information, ideas, and just be transparent. I want this to be a place for you to hear stories, inspiration and navigate the craziness of the food industry.

After reflecting on launch week, I realized that all the women I interviewed had a lot in common.

The common threads I found were:

GenuineTransparentHonest – seriously, it doesn’t get more honest than sharing the struggles of your journey!the want to share their journey and help othersA Strong WHY

All of these things are SO important because it shows there not in it just for themselves or to just make a buck. All of the women want to share their journey to help others…and they’re so much more than just their product! They want to really help others.

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Jenna Wolfe is a TV journalist and Lifestyle and Fitness expert.  She's been sharing her passion for fitness (and fun) with America for the last 20 years, most recently at NBC’s Today Show, where she was the first ever Lifestyle and Fitness correspondent.  Jenna was a sportscaster from 1996-2007 and saw firsthand how treating and training your body can lead to dynamic results on a playing field. As a certified personal trainer, she's now focused on taking that passion and knowledge and sharing it with you. As a mother of two little girls, she knows the burdens of baby weight, of making the most of the precious time we all have and of the struggles with eating well on a daily basis.

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In this episode you'll learn:

How Amie left her full time corporate job at VogueHer process of writing a cookbookHow to get started eating healthy and treating yourself right

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In this episode you'll learn:

Why you need to test your idea before you launch

3 ways to test your idea that will cost little to no moneyWhy you need to figure out who your ideal customer ishow to get a free month of convert kit!

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Connect with me on Twitter and Instagram! 

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