We get to talk with the beautiful Kinsey Roberts, who is the host of She Creates Business – A Podcast for Wedding Pros. She is also the co-wwner of Vista View Events, a gorgeous wedding venue on a century old family ranch in Colorado. Kinsey talks about what it was like starting a podcast, lessons she learned in being a entrepreneur. How to grow authentic relationships and how it helped build her relationships and her business with authenticity.

Kinsey also talks about her family opening up a wedding venue from the ground up, and what that experience was like. In this episode we also get pretty goofy as we talk about some funny stories, both past and present and we threw in a pretty serious game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. You won’t want to miss out on this fun episode! Click below to listen.

 

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

* Building authentic relationships

* Having and starting a podcast

* Repurposing content

* Owning a wedding venue

* Partnerships

* Star spotting and Six Degress of Kevin Bacon

MENTIONS

* Aquity Scheduling

* She Creates Business Podcast

* Vista View Events

* Creative at Heart Conference

* Dannie Fountain

 

GET IN TOUCH or FOLLOW KINSEY

Website – https://www.shecreatesbusinesspodcast.com/

Instagram – @shecreatesbusiness

Facebook –  https://www.facebook.com/shecreatesbusiness/

Keneshia Raymond is a Wedding Educator and Consultant. She is dedicated to helping other wedding planners get their start and grow their businesses. Her heart loves to teach and support others in her industry. Keneshia is not only an amazing educator, but she’s also an awesome Mom and she walks us through her entrepreneurial journey, what a typical day looks like for her and what she has coming up in her business. In this episode Keneshia tells us all why she doesn’t need/want a team, how she creates hard and fast boundaries for her clients, how she manages her time and how she’s creating her current course.

 

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

* Time Management

* Creating Boundaries & Client expectations

* Do you need a team? Or can you do it on your own?

* Course Creation

 

MENTIONS

* Ace Workshop – Blissful Creatives

* Google Number

* Honeybook

* Asana

* Calendly

* Google Docs

* Teachable

* Wedding Boot Camp

GET IN TOUCH WITH KENESHIA

* Website – blissfulcreativesedu.com

* Instagram – @blissfulcreatives

* Facebook – @Blissfulcreatives

Meghan Maydel is so full of energy that you almost overflow just listening to her. She’s a marketing and sales funnel strategist and she talks with us about her entrepreneurial journey, what it means to launch and stepping into your zone of genius. Having had several jobs, businesses and twists/turns along her entrepreneurial path, Meghan has started to step into her zone of genius as a brilliant marketing strategist and she tells it like it is.

 

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

* The ultimate entrepreneurial journey: Starting as a cake maker/decorator, photography, branding… etc. (so many!)

* Look for your “duh”

* Finding your zone of genius

* Second guessing yourself

* Meghan’s top 2 tips for marketing your business

* What is a launch

 

MENTIONS

* Reina Pomeroy

* Savvy Experience

* Business Boutique / Christy Wright

* The Big Leap

* Jessica Rasdall

* Meghan Maydel’s video: You are not Beyonce

* Badass Bosspreneurs

GET IN TOUCH WITH MEGHAN

* Website – meghanmaydel.com

* Instagram – @meghan_maydel

* Facebook – @MeghanMaydelBizStrategist

Cassie Kanable of Stumptown Nutrition joins the podcast today to tell us all about being a nutritional therapist and skin care consultant all while being a stay at home mom. Currently transitioning her business, Cassie talks about what it’s like to pivot in your business, her fear of success, how she finds time to work at home with a very busy toddler and how she’s able to set client expectations.

 

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

* Juggling business while being a Mom

* Time blocking and batching – specific days paired with specific activities

* Setting Client expectations

* Referral/Word of Mouth Marketing

* Marketing Tip: who’s following along with you on what social media platforms? Tailor what you say to each audience. Know your audience.

* Pivoting in your business

 

MENTIONS

Balance Bites Podcast

The Brightly Business Bunch – Facebook Group

The Together Community – Facebook Group

GET IN TOUCH WITH CASSIE

* Website – stumptownnutrition.com/

* Instagram – @stumptownnutrition

* Facebook – @stumptownnutrition

We get to chat with amazing mompreneuer and wedding planner Shamira Vargas of Savy Events and the Founder of Get Swanky Experience. She talk about getting into her career as a planner, and how she manages it all and does both businesses and goes to school for business as a mom of 2 littles under 5. She talks about running her business and getting help from family and hiring help when needed, what tools she loves to uses and what she loves about being her own boss and more.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

* Wedding & Event Planning and how she got started

* Figuring out how to get her business up and running

* Being a “legit” planner and what that means

* What she loves about being her own boss

* Being in a new market – and how to connect with vendors at Networking Events

* Scheduling time, planning your business and life as a mompreneur

* Using Dubsado and why she loves it

* When to use/not use automation or bot programs

* Organinzing social media and content management

* Expanding knowledge in her field and where to get the info

MENTIONS

SCORE Centers

* Dubsado (Jake & Becca — we love them so!)

* Pages (iPhone app)

* Notes

* FB Groups

* CC Todd

* Ashely Stork

* Kristin Caplin

* Valerie G – Saphire Sessions

* Get Swanky Experience (March 2018)

GET IN TOUCH WITH SHAMIRA

* Website – http://www.savyevents.com

* Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/savyevents/

* Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/savyplanning/

In this podcast episode we get real and raw with the fabulous Alyssa J. Gavinski is a graphic designer and CEO of Felicity + Design Co. She talks about growing her business to hire other designers, and take on more clients. How she started out and built her portfolio as a designer. Why she decided to start a company and hire other designers and creative directors to work for her business so she could oversee everything. She gets into the real details of being a mom of 4, being vulnerable, and how she runs her business, organizes her time with managing designers, clients, and marketing her business with social media and so much more.

 

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

* Deciding to build a team from a soloprenuer

* How to hire a team and the process (or pro-cess)

We chat with Melissa Herb, a body positivity mindset coach, about her online business. How she got started and what she finds to be the best way for her to find clients, feel confident in live videos, sharing her tips in facebook groups and online, and how she represents herself as a coach. Melissa discusses her past and the struggle between body positivity and body shaming, and how she wants to improve the mainstream message and empower women to feel confident in their own skin.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

* Finding confidence online

* Connecting with like-minded people

* Feeling confident in live videos

* How she took her own journey to encourage others

* Facebook Groups do’s and don’ts

GET IN TOUCH WITH MELISSA

* Website – http://www.melissaherb.com

* Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/melissa__herb

* Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/melissamherb/

* Facebook Grouop – https://www.facebook.com/groups/melissaherb/

Membership website designer and web presence boss Cynthia Schomp joins us this week to share her story on how she got started in design at only 15 years old to now building huge membership websites with a team of over 30 designers, developers and creative directors. She has turned her passion into an empire, and has found her niche. She delivers free education to help teach how to build successful websites and more. You’ll even learn about her favorite tools, and how she decided to go from a solopreneur to finally hiring others to grow her business.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

* Building a team and larger company

* What tools are useful to help in your business managing a team, etc.

* Finding clients through Facebook

* Letting go of doing it all yourself

* Putting your passions into your business

MENTIONS

Acuity Scheduling

Asana

Live Journal

Zapier.com

Dubsado

Patty Lohen-Beach – Visibility & Engagement Coach

wordpress.com

Buddypress

Likeminded Bitches Drinking Wine (FB GROUP)

Pinterest

Beachbody

GET IN TOUCH WITH CYNTHIA

* Website – http://webpresenceboss.com

* Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/webpresenceboss

* Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/WebPresenceBoss/

* Facebook Grouop – https://www.facebook.com/groups/webpresenceboss/

Branding visibility strategist, Michelle Elizabeth talks about her journey to coaching, time management and her love for Fast and the Furious. In this episode we dive deep into what coaching truly means, vs. consultant, strategist or mentor. Michelle reveals her favorite tool for tackling her days and managing her projects using the SCRUM method and she provides some great tips on how to reformat your “to-do” list into a non-negotiable list instead.

 

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

* What really is a coach? vs. a consultant or strategist?

* How to find a coach for your business and the right coach for you.

* Struggling with lack of confidence and how to move forward…

* Managing your time (making a list of non-negotiables)

* Fast and the Furious

MENTIONS

* The Spencer Institute: Website

* Brendon Burchard: Website

* The SCRUM Method: SCRUM Video

 

GET IN TOUCH WITH MICHELLE

* Website – http://michelleelizabeth.co/

* Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/michelleelizabeth_co/

* Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/MichelleElizabethINC

Makeda Mutema-Newton joins the podcast today to talk about transitioning her business from a Social Media manager, to a social media resource. Her journey through entrepreneurship has had a lot of transitions. Migrating to the U.S. from Trinidad as a young teenager she was a natural entrepreneur and started creating small jobs all along the way. Makeda’s entrepreneurial journey is so much fun to listen to, PLUS, she’s all about  serving others and creating resources that truly help people start and grow their businesses. She takes us through navigating the information overload we are now faced with online and how she makes her decisions on who to listen to and what education opportunities to take.

Makeda is the founder and creator of The Conference Connection and is a wealth of knowledge on all things social media at makedanewton.com/.

 

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

* Makeda’s entrepreneurial journey

* Working a full-time job while running a business.

* Transitioning your business focus.

* Being Type A and organized is a positive thing!

* Navigating the information overload and being careful to choose the right learning opportunities. (Being selective in what you process).

* What questions to ask: Do I need this right now? Is it going to help me? Is it evergreen – can I come back to this later? 

* Using Trello to organize your Social Media.

 

MENTIONS

Reina Pomeroy

RESOURCES

Trello

Later

 

GET IN TOUCH WITH MAKEDA

Website – https://www.makedanewton.com/

The Conference Connection – http://www.theconferenceconnection.com/

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/makedanewton/

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/makedanewton