On this week's episode, we’re going to talk about “Failing Your Way to Success” and how to reframe the meaning of failure so that you can get out of your own way.

To chat with us today, we have Barbara Churchill. A sought-after confidence and leadership coach, specializing in emerging and senior level leaders, is passionate about empowering people to embrace their leadership skills and step into more challenging roles.

As an engaging and inspiring presenter, who mixes humor with a powerful message, she has been mentoring working men and women for over twenty years.

Having three successful businesses herself with revenues in seven-figures, she has learned what it takes to create the kind of work/life balance that is both meaningful and sustainable.

Furthermore, she’s also the creator of the Lead It Real™ Leadership Coaching program, where she combines her leadership and communication expertise while working with small and medium sized businesses.

She continues to be invited by Fortune 100 companies to lead sessions on self-confidence and leadership; and is a frequent television guest in the Twin Cities.

If you’re serious about growing your business and your income while having more fun doing it, you can shoot her an email at [email protected] today and mention this podcast and visit her website for more information, barbarachurchill.com.

And as always, if there is a topic YOU’D like us to discuss in the future, message us on Instagram, Facebook, or send me an email at [email protected] and we might just feature it on our next episode - until then keep Thinking Eclectic.

On this week's episode, we’re going to continue with PART 2 of how to start a side hustle while working or going to school, and then how to transition that side hustle into your main hustle so you can start living your dreams!

According to a 2018 HBR (Harvard Business Review) article called Thriving in the Gig Economy, “approximately 150 million workers in North America and Western Europe have left the relatively stable confines of organizational life — sometimes by choice, sometimes not — to work as independent contractors. Some of this growth reflects the emergence of ride-hailing and task-oriented service platforms, but a recent report by McKinsey found that knowledge-intensive industries and creative occupations are the largest and fastest-growing segments of the freelance economy.”

Out of a survey of 65 gig workers, they came to a conclusion that most independent workers cultivate 4 types of connections:

1. Place
2. Routine
3. Purpose
4. People

They found that these 4 connections help them endure the emotional ups and downs of their work and gain energy and inspiration from their freedom. This can also relate to corporate workers as well as we are now transitioning into a more autonomous and remote-style workplace. Furthermore, this can also help anyone thinking of starting a side hustle by implementing this strategy.

On this week's episode, we’re going to talk about how to start a side hustle while working or going to school, and then how to transition that side hustle into your main hustle so you can start living your dreams!

According to a 2018 HBR (Harvard Business Review) article called Thriving in the Gig Economy, “approximately 150 million workers in North America and Western Europe have left the relatively stable confines of organizational life — sometimes by choice, sometimes not — to work as independent contractors. Some of this growth reflects the emergence of ride-hailing and task-oriented service platforms, but a recent report by McKinsey found that knowledge-intensive industries and creative occupations are the largest and fastest-growing segments of the freelance economy.”

Out of a survey of 65 gig workers, they came to a conclusion that most independent workers cultivate 4 types of connections:

1. Place
2. Routine
3. Purpose
4. People

They found that these 4 connections help them endure the emotional ups and downs of their work and gain energy and inspiration from their freedom. This can also relate to corporate workers as well as we are now transitioning into a more autonomous and remote-style workplace. Furthermore, this can also help anyone thinking of starting a side hustle by implementing this strategy.

On this week's episode, we’re going to talk about how to create engaging content for your business or brand by sharing our top 5 secret tips.

These tips are great to have as a frame of reference when you get stuck on trying to figure out what to talk about OR you can use these as a way to organize your content calendar so you can ensure that you have a healthy mix of fresh and engaging content.

On this week's episode, we’re going to talk about Entrepreneurship & Spiritual Healing and how those two go hand-in-hand in order to sustain a successful and healthy long term career. 

Our special guest this week is an Entrepreneur, Bodyworker, and Artist with a focus and passion for the Healing Arts. 

She started her career in Marketing, Communications & Project Management while working for various corporations and nonprofits.

Her entrepreneur experiences span from a yoga/cycling studio to owning and operating one of the most popular paint-and-sip businesses from Chicago, Bottle & Bottega.

As an Artist, much of her work is attributed to leading collaborative community projects, along with various mixed media in her professional work. Several of her community projects were in collaboration with the Minneapolis Uptown Art Fair, which is attended by more than 350,000 people annually. Her work in the past has included designing and creating community murals, steel drums,  paint cans, and large murals often for fundraising or team building.

What is Personal Branding? Why is it so important? And how do I go about it? These are just some of the questions we talk about on this week's episode.

According to Forbes, your personal brand "is essentially your golden ticket to networking with the right people, getting hired for a dream job, or building an influential business."

It's a digital world, and right now more than ever, we are relying on technology to survive as we navigate this new normal. So press play, and let's get "personal."

On this week's episode, we’re going to talk about the journey into career transitioning as a young adult, a.k.a as a millennial.

What is a Millennial? A millennial is defined as someone born between 1980 and 1996, which means most millennials started their careers around the 2008 recession and housing market crash, they tend to have large amounts of student loan debt, and NOW have AGAIN been hit with another global crisis that has cost most people their jobs, their health, and their prospects.

According to Gallup, 60% of millennials say they are open to a different job opportunity -- 15 percentage points higher than the percentage of non-millennial workers who say the same. Millennials are also the most willing to act on better opportunities: 36% report that they will look for a job with a different organization in the next 12 months if the job market improves, compared with 21% of non-millennials who say the same.

Furthermore, only 29% of millennials are engaged at work. The national engagement average is 34%, which means many more millennials than their elders feel uninspired, unmotivated and emotionally disconnected from their workplace.

The top 4 reasons Millennials change jobs are: opportunities to learn and grow, a sense of purpose, high-quality management, and chances of advancement.

So to chat with us today, we have a special guest that started her career as a Fashion Stylist & Educator in San Francisco (and before that, many other “titles" while growing up in Minneapolis, MN) to now a Seattle-based Digital Designer who is endlessly inspired by the art of building aesthetics, and now dedicates her time to pursuing her curiosities in UX/UI, brand, visual, and web design.

During these unprecedented times, most business owners are having challenges creating proper messaging to their customers as they want to convey compassion but also promote their ongoing products/service.

Listen along as we share some tips and insights on how to communicate with your customers during these tough times.

On this week's episode, we’re going to talk about how COVID-19 has affected businesses, particularly the ones that are deemed non-essential, like ours and so many others.

To chat with us today, we have a special guest that started his Minnesota journey 18 yrs ago as a housekeeping intern at a Northern Minnesota resort, and now, finds himself leading his second company in the Twin Cities called, Giftbomb.

Giftbomb is a gifting app that supports local businesses and enables users to conveniently purchase gift cards to popular restaurants, resorts, cafes, and more and also now contributes directly to help support a business especially during these troubled times.

Eclectic means deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources. Thinking Eclectic, a podcast hosted by owner and founder of Eclectic Media Golnaz Yamoutpour, does just that.

Marketing is not a magic bullet that will solve all your business problems. It is merely a system, in the all encompassing world of other systems, that enable a business or brand to be successful.

In this day and age of social media, influencers, and digital everything, it is even more important to have solid marketing to not only keep up with the trends but to ensure longevity.

Follow along as we go through the highs, the lows, and the not-so-glam world of making sh*t happen.