Wealthy Teachers

Lindsay and Tracy discuss social media as a gateway to entrepreneurship and the increasing amount of women entering the online business space.  Plus some great tips on how to get started.

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About Tracy:

Dr. Tracy Timberlake is changing the game of digital leadership and elevating online entrepreneurship. Her mission is to help high-level achievers transfer their knowledge and expertise into the online space and show up as digital leaders.

Not only was successful online entrepreneurship the topic of her scholarly work, proven with over 11,000 hours of industry experience, thousands of pages of research, hundreds of women studied, dozens interviewed, and one very lengthy dissertation, she has also done it! It is not just theory.  As a successful YouTube Vlogger turned Business Coach, with over 50,000 digital followers, 3 million video views and a multiple 6-figure business, she is as real as they get in the online world.

She has worked with brands such as Herbal Essence, Marc Jacobs, and Cosmopolitan Magazine. She has been featured in the Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Miami Herald, and dozens of radio shows and podcasts across the globe. If you are ready to build an online platform using the power of social, then Dr. TT is your person!

She is known for systematically getting her clients fast results using expert positioning and social media strategy that she has used herself to build her digital empire, and it all begins with PLATFORM.

Her platform began on her bathroom floor with a flat iron, where will yours begin?

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Lindsay and Josie share amazing advice for social media practices when starting a business. They discuss the fear of calling what you do a "business" and how to get over it.

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About Josie:

After 12 years working on college campuses, Josie Ahlquist went rogue from traditional higher education roles—as an independent speaker, author, and consultant on digital leadership in higher education. She teaches teens, young adults, educational professionals and corporate executives how to humanize tech and prioritize building online community over traditional marketing methods.

Ahlquist has trained thousands across the United States, Canada, Mexico and the United Arab Emirates. She backs up her content with her own grant-funded and award-winning research. Her research agenda focuses on young adults' digital experiences, senior executives' online leadership practices, and digital leadership pedagogy. She maintains an active research agenda, currently undertaking research projects with colleagues around the globe.

For the fourth year in a row, she has been named to the “Top 50 Must-Read Higher Education Technology Blogs” by Ed Tech Magazine. Her podcast, Josie & The Podcast was featured by The Chronicle of Higher Ed and Inside Higher Ed as a show to subscribe to. She is published as a co-author in the Handbook of Student Affairs Administration textbook, The Journal of Leadership Studies, co-editor and author in the New Directions in Student Services and co-editor and author in New Directions in Student Leadership. She is currently writing a book with Stylus Publishing, set to release in 2019 on digital leadership in higher education.

www.josieahlquist.com

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/josieahlquist/

https://www.youtube.com/josieahlquist 

Lindsay and Rachel discuss how academics are expected to present themselves online, and how that’s BS.

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About Rachel:

Rachel Wright is a licensed marriage and family therapist, therapeutic coach™, sex educator, speaker, media personality, and writer. Together with her brilliant (and handsome) husband, Kyle, she co-founded Wright Wellness Center, LLC and launched their signature program, Revive Your Relationship™, a revolutionary online program that provides the tools, techniques, and support to help you kick communication issues to the curb to give you smoother communication, better sex, and greater fulfillment in your life and relationship. Read more (and get oodles of free resources) at www.wrightwellnesscenter.com.

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Echo and Lindsay discuss being unsure as a grad student, and creating a business focused on ending #DeathByPowerPoint.

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About Echo:

I am a community-based researcher/evaluator and effective research communication specialist with 15 years of multi-sector professional experience. I typically lead research/evaluation projects to improve the social and community response to intimate partner violence (IPV), though I also work on other social (in)justice topics. Through my company, Creative Research Communications LLC, I also help social justice-oriented academics, scientists, evaluators, and researchers create compelling and effective presentations through training, mentoring, and custom illustration services. My goal is to end #DeathByPowerPoint and to help others communicate their work in creative, engaging, and effective ways so that we can create lasting positive social change.

https://echorivera.com

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Amy and Lindsay discuss the parallels of being an artist and academic, and the oppressive nature of academic institutions.

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Sneak peak PHOTO of Amy's photoshoot of Lindsay!

Amy Walsh is an artist, educator and branding specialist who, with her business the Bureau of Tactical Imagination, helps mission-driven entrepreneurs master the art of visual storytelling in all of their communications.

http://amywalsh.net/

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Lindsay and Lisa discuss overcoming a fear of failure, and finding your power post PhD.

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About Lisa Munro:

I'm an entrepreneur with a PhD in history. I own a small, independent writing business called the Mérida Collective Writing Project. I help academic writers get more writing done with less shame and greater joy.

I host writing retreats in Mexico and Guatemala to provide safe, collaborative spaces for writers to take creative risks in their work. I coach writers to help them use their own creativity and ingenuity to create strategies to reach their writing goals. I also provide academic editing services to scholars in the humanities.

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Lindsay and Valerie discuss "patriarchal stress disorder" within academia, and the dangers of being a smart, successful woman.

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Dr. Valerie's podcast: www.hersuccessradio.com

Psychologist turned life and executive coach, Dr. Valerie helps women use adversity and crises as fuel for transformation, which she defines as moving from unconscious to conscious creation of your life — designed by your desires. Her system is based on her doctoral research on transformation and over 20,000 hours of facilitating people’s journeys as a holistic therapist and coach. On her podcast, Her Success Radio, Dr. Valerie has real and raw conversations with inspiring women on the journey of transformation. Join the conversation at www.hersuccessradio.com and find yourself on the map of your own journey at www.herjourneymap.com

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Lindsay and Cate discuss the birth of Cate’s business in coaching educators at the beginnings of their teaching careers. They also touch upon the inspiration and support found in fellow academics running businesses.

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About Cate:

Cate Denial is the Bright Professor of History, Chair of the History department, and director of the Bright Institute at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. A teacher for twenty-three years, Cate has published and consults on pedagogical innovation, was a participant in the 2017 Digital Pedagogy Institute, and is a member of the Educational Advisory Board of the Digital Public Library of America.

http://learningwithcate.com/

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Lindsay and Masha discuss how graduate work affects mental wellbeing and what it feels like to be a generalist in a system that requires specializing. They get into growth mindset, anxiety attacks, and mental health struggles in grad school and describe how the hardships and lessons of grad school now translate into Masha's job at a community college and her business as a confidence coach.

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Links discussed in this episode:

BoldAdulting.com

BoldAdulting Podcast https://www.boldadulting.com/blog/?tag=podcast

Masha interviews two of her former students on the BoldAdulting podcast: Med Student Cuong Lieu and Scientist Mo Anderson 

Masha's day job is at San Diego Continuing Education which has free career training including in small business

Sharing Science - Masha's students' project to share science to non-scientists on Instagram

Quirky Bingers, fat-positive binge-eating Facebook support group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/quirkybingers/

Science and Justice Research Center at UC Santa Cruz: https://scijust.ucsc.edu/

Recovering Academic podcast

Lena Benning - co-founder of Quirks Who Care and the artist who created Masha's business card design

The Allied Genetics Conference - the conference that was a turning point in Masha's decision to leave her PhD program

#SciComm and #SciCommJobs

Biz Chix podcast

She Podcasts Facebook Group

About Masha Evpak:

Masha Evpak has been waging a battle against the mental health problems rampant in academia since she realized how stressed out her fellow grad students were. She tackles these issues through one-on-one coaching, in-person workshops, and through her podcast. Masha is the founder of BoldAdulting.com (@BoldAdulting), where she helps amazing people courageously tackle what life throws at them, even when they're afraid they have no idea what they're doing. Her past experiences include working as a scientist and being shocked when she realized her 100 pound weight loss wasn’t the answer to her body image struggles. She uses the lessons of her past to inform both her BoldAdulting projects and her day job at San Diego Continuing Education.

https://www.facebook.com/BoldAdulting/

https://twitter.com/boldadulting

https://twitter.com/thegeneticsgal

instagram.com/boldadulting

https://www.instagram.com/thegeneticsgal/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mashaevpak/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6t17NqPuO_8z51Nn1VMYqA

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Lindsay and Yasemin discuss how to authentically connect with others and where musical theater fits into business.

AmplifyYourDreams.com

YaseminInal.com

https://www.facebook.com/borntomakeadifference

Brenden Bruchard's High Performance Habits book: https://amzn.to/2r8pUp2

About Yasemin:

Yasemin has been a big dreamer and doer ever since she was a little girl. At 17, leaving her parents behind in Istanbul, Turkey, she flew all the way to the US to study PR/Journalism. After losing her father at 18, she was left with a difficult decision to go back or to stay and follow her dreams here in the US. She chose the harder road and never looked back. Despite all the financial struggles she faced, she put herself through a private school without any student loans and graduated with the highest honors.

After teaching for more than a decade, Yasemin founded her company Amplify Your Dreams when she discovered her passion for coaching. Yasemin is a High Performance Coach, International Speaker and a Podcast host of The Thriving Entrepreneur. She
loves empowering ambitious, big-hearted entrepreneurs to reach higher levels of clarity, energy, courage, productivity and influence so they can thrive.

Yasemin is a mommy of 3, enjoys the outdoors, loves anything with chocolate and is a total gym bunny.