What's The Lesson

Leaving a Little Sparkle Wherever You Go

In this episode, we are joined by Alex Bradberry, the founder of The Sparkle Bar, a Scottsdale Based Luxury makeup studio. The Sparkle bar specializes in helping people embrace their unique beauty through cosmetics. Work-life balance can be difficult to juggle especially as a business owner, through COVID nonetheless & as a mom of two girls but partaking in people's lives, leaving them with a little bit of your sparkle is exactly why Alex makes it all work. Tune in as Alex shares real-life lessons on how you can tap into your true self and maintain an optimal balance between your work and family to make a difference in the world around you.

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

[01:10] Introduction to the show

[03:22] The Sparkle Bar's mission

[04:46] How you can achieve optimal work + life balance

[07:41] Alex's lessons on how you can improve your customer's experience

[15:38] How to optimize your mental health to create an impact on others

[20:27] Incorporating workout strategies in your self-care routine practices

[22:19] How Alex and her team maintained their resilience in 2020

[28:05] Leaving your legacy to the next generation

[29:57] Shifting leadership mentality from me to we

[32:44] How to step into your true self to make the world a better place

[35:01] The important understanding people's touchpoints in making connections

[36:10] Essentials in recognizing and enhancing valuable skills in children

[38:55] Alex's biggest lessons from her experiences in life

[40:55] How to reach out and connect with Alex's Sparkle Bar

Links:

Alex Bradberry

Instagram

Sparkle Bar

Website

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Jill Petersen | @jillphxsen

Mary Frances | @msmaryfran

Starting a business in general is no easy feat. Starting a business in the middle of a pandemic, that's just crazy. Throw in homeschooling two kids, navigating a cancer diagnosis & so many other little hurdles along the way & wow.

On this episode, we reflect on some of the things we've overcome to make it to the one year anniversary of our business & what that resilience means for year number two.

We also invite you to ask yourself a few reflection questions; whether you own a business or not, being able to measure growth is important for all of us.

-Who are you right now?

-Where have you been?

-Where are you going?

-Who do you need to bring in to support you in becoming a better version of yourself?

On the show today we have the honor & privelage of interviewing author, speaker & dear friend Stephanie Hendrick. Stephanie chats about falling into a 10 year career after college, where she & her husband built an amazing business together but ultimately, it wasn't what she wanted.

She made a choice to pivot into doing the thing she wanted to do all along which was be an author & a public speaker as she didn't want to showcase to her daughters that living a life unfulfilled was okay.

She launched her first book titled Meant For More in December of 2020 which means her girls were home with her during the writing process. Tune in to find out more about how Stephanie's pivot gave them permission to seek more!

Check out this resource mentioned in the episode:

Stephanie's Book - Meant For More

On Instagram | @StephanieHendrick

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https://www.girlsmentorship.com/

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Girls Mentorship | @girlsmentorship

Jill Petersen | @jillphxsen

Mary Frances | @msmaryfran

This one's for the girls (and those who care about them!) ALL of us know the feeling of exhaustion and overwhelm when it comes to making decisions. In this episode, we are sharing 5 easy steps you can use to make decisions big and small! Oh my goodness how this way of sorting through risks and decision-making would have helped us so much as teens! Our host Jill shares how she has used this process to set boundaries for herself and how it has helped her in her own day-to-day life! Tune in for ways you and your teen can benefit from using these 5 steps to ditch the overwhelm and feel more empowered and confident in your decision-making!

01:00 Reflecting on starting a podcast!

03:00 Do you struggle with making decisions?

05:00 Is your girl's decision-making meter running low?

06:20 Use PROPS to help with decision-making!

07:15 How Jill is setting boundaries and taking time to pause.

09:00 Stop and reflect.

10:20 Have you considered your options?

11:40 Base your priorities on your core values!

14:30 How PROPS can help you finally select your final decision.

16:00 One rep is not going to magically change your mindset.

Check out this resource mentioned in the episode:

https://mailchi.mp/70bedf66af8d/5-steps-to-helping-your-teens-make-better-choices

Learn more about our coaching services & upcoming events:

https://www.girlsmentorship.com/

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Girls Mentorship | @girlsmentorship

Jill Petersen | @jillphxsen

Mary Frances | @msmaryfran

We ALL crave human connection. Real, authentic human connection. In this episode, we're so excited to be joined by Wealth Management Broker turned blogger, Venessa Kaufman. Venessa shares her own personal story of building a side hustle that eventually replaced her corporate job, and how she has been able to connect with her audience authentically. It's that human connection over real conversations, and adding value to other's lives that have been a major piece of her success in building her blogging career. We also dive into how we can connect with our kids by having these same authentic conversations! Tune in to this special (very first) guest episode on how showing up as a human is one of the best things you can do. Spoiler, we're all human, and we need each other.

01:30 Welcome to our very first guest, Venessa Kaufman.

03:00 How did you get started as a blogger?

06:20 The importance of fostering your creative side in life.

10:50 How have you connected with your audience and decided what to share?

13:00 Respecting your kids privacy and consent to be shared on social media.

17:40 With having your life shared online, what has helped you share authentically?

23:00 How can you learn from setbacks and turn them into success?

27:15 What value are you offering your audience? Are you connecting with them?

29:00 The power of asking yourself, "What is important to me?"

32:00 Who are you BEING?

33:40 How do you approach the same conversations with your kids that you are having with your following online?

38:00 Ways we can support our girls by having open conversations with them.

41:15 Allowing yourself to be human, gives your kids permission to be human too.

44:00 How can we connect with you? Is there something you're working on that you're excited about?

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Follow Venessa on Instagram | @wetheclassy

Check out Venessa's Blog | wetheclassy.com

On this episode, we discuss how the Olymics demonstrates why mental well-being is the most important aspect of your teen's "game", whether they are an athlete or not. Listen in as we dive into six developmental tasks that are integral for your kids to know.

Thank you for joining us in this journey, please subscribe so you can be the first to know when new episodes drop & help others discover these important conversations. We can't wait to laugh, learn and grow with you!!

04:08 Dominic Dawes, an OG in the Olympic regime talks about mental health & the need for it in current times.

06:41 What happens when we set big, hairy, audacious goals & DON'T reach them?

07:05 "Who" goals versus "Do" goals

09:08 Introduction to the six developmental tasks that your teen needs to know.

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On this episode, we chat the importance of your daughter knowing what's important to her in order to overcome expectations placed on her by friendship groups.

Thank you for joining us in this journey, please subscribe so you can be the first to know when new episodes drop & help others discover these important conversations. We can't wait to laugh, learn and grow with you!!

05:19 We are not miracle workers, we're prevention specialists.

08:20 Why it's important that your daughter has her own values

11:14 Co-creating those values with her.

12:52 How one interaction, without knowing who you are & what you stand for, can define you for years to come.

18:25 Why these conversations need to be fluid & continuous

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Welcome to 'What's the Lesson', a podcast geared towards helping you & the girls (boys can certainly benefit too) in your life learn how to take your WTF moments & turn them into WTL moments. Realitically, there's a lesson that can be learned from every situation & the earlier your teens & tweens can start seeing their life through this lens, the better equipped they'll be to be the leader in their lives, always. On this episode, we chat about mismanaged expectations along with a few tips on how to keep them in check! Thank you for joining us in this journey, please subscribe so you can be the first to know when new episodes drop & help others discover these important conversations. We can't wait to laugh, learn and grow with you!!

02:45 Your expectations may be doing the opposite of what you expect!

03:25 What makes a good mentor?

06:13 Where your daughter is experiencing the most pressure

06:43 What you see versus what we get

08:32 How mismanaging your expectations can damage your daughter in the long term

11:15 Step one of keeping your expectations in check - self awareness

11:37 Step two, personal responsibility

14:24 Co-creating those expectations

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Connect with us on Instagram:

Girls Mentorship | @girlsmentorship

Jill Petersen | @jillphxsen

Mary Frances | @msmaryfran

Connect with us on Facebook:

Girls Mentorship | @girlsmentorship

Welcome to 'What's the Lesson', a podcast geared towards helping you & the girls (boys can certainly benefit too) in your life learn how to take your WTF moments & turn them into WTL moments. Realitically, there's a lesson that can be learned from every situation & the earlier your teens & tweens can start seeing their life through this lens, the better equipped they'll be to be the leader in their lives, always. On this episode, we chat about the importance of investing in yourself; yourself as in you but also the importance of your kids learning to invest in themselves by following your lead. Thank you for joining us in this journey, please subscribe so you can be the first to know when new episodes drop & help others discover these important conversations. We can't wait to laugh, learn and grow with you!!

01:24 This subject comes up with the families that we work with all the time!

03:38 Why investing in ourselves has become so engrained in us.

04:30 Where your kids are learning from

05:20 This worked is aimed at making parenting feel easier & more successful.

06:18 The three ways we all tend to learn

07:18 If you model investing in yourself as an important principle, your kids will take note of that.

09:00 Everyone is seeking change on some level

12:09 What better ROI than that of your kids.

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Connect with us on Instagram:

Girls Mentorship | @girlsmentorship

Jill Petersen | @jillphxsen

Mary Frances | @msmaryfran

Connect with us on Facebook:

Girls Mentorship | @girlsmentorship

Welcome to 'What's the Lesson', a podcast geared towards helping you & the girls (boys can certainly benefit too) in your life learn how to take your WTF moments & turn them into WTL moments. Realitically, there is a lesson that can be learned from every situation & the earlier your teens & tweens can start seeing their life through this lens, the better equipped they'll be to be the leader in their lives, always. On this episode, we introduce who we are & why this work matters to us so much. Thank you for joining us in this journey, we can only go up from here! Please subscribe so you can be the first to know when new episodes drop & help others discover these important conversations. We can't wait to laugh, learn and grow with you!!

01:15 Welcome to the Jill & Mary show!

02:53 Who in the heck is Jill?

04:35 Who in the heck is Mary?

06:25 Why in the heck does this podcast exist?

09:27 Learning from those that are just a few steps ahead of you.

12:53 We are always open to your feedback.

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Connect with us on Instagram:

Girls Mentorship | @girlsmentorship

Jill Petersen | @jillphxsen

Mary Frances | @msmaryfran