Witchy Momma

In today’s episode, we talk all about 1099’s & Employees:

• What makes an independent contractor an independent contractor.
• What makes an employee an employee.
• The Borello test
• How I can help you figure out if your employee is a true employee or just a 1099 independent contractor.
• How I can help you hire your first employee or independent contractor.

Links Mentioned:

https://calendly.com/fortressandflourish/hr-strategy-session-ii

https://www.fortressandflourish.com/post/independent-contractor-or-employee

This show has been created for you, and we want to hear from you. Tell me how you are challenged, how you are inspired, and the kinds of conversations you like hearing the most.

If something you heard today brought a smile to your face or a spark to your heart, and you’d like to connect with me, here are a few ways you can do that. 

One is my newsletter, it’s where I put most of my time and energy when I’m not working with clients or on this podcast.  Sorry social media!  It’s a mix of real life stories, tips and tricks and of course updates on what’s happening with the podcast.  Whenever something is going on with me or in my business, it always comes out there first.

Another resource that I have for you is my Guide to Doing Work Differently.  The guide takes you through four inquiries into how you can build a more sustainable and equitable work environment for yourself and your team.  It's a great place to start.

Last, if you’ve got a burning question, a comment, or a situation you’d like my eyes on, you can email me at [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed this episode, hit subscribe to know when the next episodes come out, and if you’re feeling generous, leave a review.  Reviews help other like-minded folks find their way to this resource.

Learn more about Candice and her work here.

In today’s episode we talk all about raises.

Here’s an episode sneak peek:

• Giving raises
• Things I discuss with my clients when they’re thinking about giving raises
• How I conduct “benchmarking” for my clients
• The tools I use when assessing the job market to help you create your raise
  • Indeed
  • The Economic Research Institute’s Salary Assessor
• MIT’s Living Wage Data
• If you have a budget and have a set amount for raises- how to divvy it up.

Links Mentioned:

How To Create a Job Post For Free on Indeed

MIT Living Wage Data

F&F Pay Clarity Package

This show has been created for you, and we want to hear from you. Tell me how you are challenged, how you are inspired, and the kinds of conversations you like hearing the most.

If something you heard today brought a smile to your face or a spark to your heart, and you’d like to connect with me, here are a few ways you can do that. 

One is my newsletter, it’s where I put most of my time and energy when I’m not working with clients or on this podcast.  Sorry social media!  It’s a mix of real life stories, tips and tricks and of course updates on what’s happening with the podcast.  Whenever something is going on with me or in my business, it always comes out there first.

Another resource that I have for you is my Guide to Doing Work Differently.  The guide takes you through four inquiries into how you can build a more sustainable and equitable work environment for yourself and your team.  It's a great place to start.

Last, if you’ve got a burning question, a comment, or a situation you’d like my eyes on, you can email me at [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed this episode, hit subscribe to know when the next episodes come out, and if you’re feeling generous, leave a review.  Reviews help other like-minded folks find their way to this resource.

Learn more about Candice and her work here.

In today’s episode, we are doing a behind-the-scenes on my new offering, Let’s Lead Together.

Let’s Lead Together is an annual membership for business and non-profit leaders with up to 40 employees that helps you:

• Offload the time-consuming and repetitive HR responsibilities that keep you from focusing on the things that only YOU can do
• Gives you the structural Organizational Development and Human Resources support to get your organization to the next level with inclusive, regenerative, business practices that help you, your team, and those you serve.
• Lead your developing team through its stages of growth, including helping your employees steadily build skill sets to meet the future needs of your organization.

Here’s how it works: 

1. Ongoing Support for YOU as a Leader. 
2.  Ongoing Support for Your TEAM.
3.  Goal Setting (and Achieving!). 
4. HR/OD Needs Assessment & Action Plan.
   
   

Links Mentioned:

Let's Lead Together

Guide to Doing Work Differently

This show has been created for you, and we want to hear from you. Tell me how you are challenged, how you are inspired, and the kinds of conversations you like hearing the most.

If something you heard today brought a smile to your face or a spark to your heart, and you’d like to connect with me, here are a few ways you can do that. 

One is my newsletter, it’s where I put most of my time and energy when I’m not working with clients or on this podcast.  Sorry social media!  It’s a mix of real life stories, tips and tricks and of course updates on what’s happening with the podcast.  Whenever something is going on with me or in my business, it always comes out there first.

Another resource that I have for you is my Guide to Doing Work Differently.  The guide takes you through four inquiries into how you can build a more sustainable and equitable work environment for yourself and your team.  It's a great place to start.

Last, if you’ve got a burning question, a comment, or a situation you’d like my eyes on, you can email me at [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed this episode, hit subscribe to know when the next episodes come out, and if you’re feeling generous, leave a review.  Reviews help other like-minded folks find their way to this resource.

Learn more about Candice and her work here.

• Why Maris wants to help others connect with the spirit world and their ancestors.
• Maris’s experience with seiðr (SAY-der) and how she learned the practice.
• What the function of the staff is, and the relationship of the person practicing with the staff.
• The vocalizations and sounds made during rituals.

If something you heard today brought a smile to your face or a spark to your heart, and you’d like to connect with me, here are a few ways you can do that. 

One is my newsletter, it’s where I put most of my time and energy when I’m not working with clients or on this podcast.  Sorry social media!  It’s a mix of real life stories, tips and tricks and of course updates on what’s happening with the podcast.  Whenever something is going on with me or in my business, it always comes out there first.

Another resource that I have for you is my Guide to Doing Work Differently.  The guide takes you through four inquiries into how you can build a more sustainable and equitable work environment for yourself and your team.  It's a great place to start.

Last, if you’ve got a burning question, a comment, or a situation you’d like my eyes on, you can email me at [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed this episode, hit subscribe to know when the next episodes come out, and if you’re feeling generous, leave a review.  Reviews help other like-minded folks find their way to this resource.

Learn more about Candice and her work here.

In today’s episode, I share my story with you.

I planned for this episode to be the first episode of The Hearth but felt a pull in a different direction.  13 episodes in, and here it is.

I hope you enjoy my story.

Links Mentioned:

 Guide to Doing Work Differently

This show has been created for you, and we want to hear from you. Tell me how you are challenged, how you are inspired, and the kinds of conversations you like hearing the most.

If something you heard today brought a smile to your face or a spark to your heart, and you’d like to connect with me, here are a few ways you can do that. 

One is my newsletter, it’s where I put most of my time and energy when I’m not working with clients or on this podcast.  Sorry social media!  It’s a mix of real life stories, tips and tricks and of course updates on what’s happening with the podcast.  Whenever something is going on with me or in my business, it always comes out there first.

Another resource that I have for you is my Guide to Doing Work Differently.  The guide takes you through four inquiries into how you can build a more sustainable and equitable work environment for yourself and your team.  It's a great place to start.

Last, if you’ve got a burning question, a comment, or a situation you’d like my eyes on, you can email me at [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed this episode, hit subscribe to know when the next episodes come out, and if you’re feeling generous, leave a review.  Reviews help other like-minded folks find their way to this resource.

Learn more about Candice and her work here.

In today’s epsiode I welcome my friend and client Kara Meyberg Guzman to talk about her experience being the co-owner & CEO of Santa Cruz Local, a local news organization that serves my city, Santa Cruz, California.

In this episode we talk about:

• How Kara became the CEO of Santa Cruz Local.
• The challenges she faced building a news organization.
• Policies she and her team have implemented to create a sustainable workplace allowing their employees to have real work-life balance.
• The #1 advice Kara would give her younger self.
• Santa Cruz Locals’ most recent project.

Links Mentioned:

Santacruzlocal.org
tinynewsco.org

 Guide to Doing Work Differently

This show has been created for you, and we want to hear from you. Tell me how you are challenged, how you are inspired, and the kinds of conversations you like hearing the most.

If something you heard today brought a smile to your face or a spark to your heart, and you’d like to connect with me, here are a few ways you can do that. 

One is my newsletter, it’s where I put most of my time and energy when I’m not working with clients or on this podcast.  Sorry social media!  It’s a mix of real life stories, tips and tricks and of course updates on what’s happening with the podcast.  Whenever something is going on with me or in my business, it always comes out there first.

Another resource that I have for you is my Guide to Doing Work Differently.  The guide takes you through four inquiries into how you can build a more sustainable and equitable work environment for yourself and your team.  It's a great place to start.

Last, if you’ve got a burning question, a comment, or a situation you’d like my eyes on, you can email me at [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed this episode, hit subscribe to know when the next episodes come out, and if you’re feeling generous, leave a review.  Reviews help other like-minded folks find their way to this resource.

Learn more about Candice and her work here.

This episode is part two of how today’s modern world of work came to be.

In part one, Episode 9, we explored the transition from the Roman Empire through to Feudalism, the development of Capitalism, and the industrialization of work.

Today we will dive into the 1800s through to the age of technology.

We’ll cover laws specific to the United States, specifically laws that increase the rights of the worker while limiting the abuses and power of the employer.

Links Mentioned:

 Guide to Doing Work Differently

This show has been created for you, and we want to hear from you. Tell me how you are challenged, how you are inspired, and the kinds of conversations you like hearing the most.

If something you heard today brought a smile to your face or a spark to your heart, and you’d like to connect with me, here are a few ways you can do that. 

One is my newsletter, it’s where I put most of my time and energy when I’m not working with clients or on this podcast.  Sorry social media!  It’s a mix of real life stories, tips and tricks and of course updates on what’s happening with the podcast.  Whenever something is going on with me or in my business, it always comes out there first.

Another resource that I have for you is my Guide to Doing Work Differently.  The guide takes you through four inquiries into how you can build a more sustainable and equitable work environment for yourself and your team.  It's a great place to start.

Last, if you’ve got a burning question, a comment, or a situation you’d like my eyes on, you can email me at [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed this episode, hit subscribe to know when the next episodes come out, and if you’re feeling generous, leave a review.  Reviews help other like-minded folks find their way to this resource.

Learn more about Candice and her work here.

On today's episode, Natalie Ross, Co-Founder and Podcast Hostess of Earth Speak, shares with us how she’s able to help her clients market themselves in a way that is authentic to who they are.

Natalie is a trauma-informed marketing consultant who left her science background to instead, explore nature, intuition, and spirit.  

Here’s a taste of our conversation:

• How Natalie came to marketing as her career
• Money trauma
• The best investment in your time & money
• Friction in your life & practices to help you process and move through the friction
• Finding safety first

Links Mentioned:

Work With Natalie
Conscious Marketing Waitlist

Guide to Doing Work Differently

This show has been created for you, and we want to hear from you. Tell me how you are challenged, how you are inspired, and the kinds of conversations you like hearing the most.

If something you heard today brought a smile to your face or a spark to your heart, and you’d like to connect with me, here are a few ways you can do that. 

One is my newsletter, it’s where I put most of my time and energy when I’m not working with clients or on this podcast.  Sorry social media!  It’s a mix of real life stories, tips and tricks and of course updates on what’s happening with the podcast.  Whenever something is going on with me or in my business, it always comes out there first.

Another resource that I have for you is my Guide to Doing Work Differently.  The guide takes you through four inquiries into how you can build a more sustainable and equitable work environment for yourself and your team.  It's a great place to start.

Last, if you’ve got a burning question, a comment, or a situation you’d like my eyes on, you can email me at [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed this episode, hit subscribe to know when the next episodes come out, and if you’re feeling generous, leave a review.  Reviews help other like-minded folks find their way to this resource.

Learn more about Candice and her work here.

The world of work has lots of expectations and rules: the way people behave, the way we dress, the amount of time we work and not work, our capacity for handling stress, these are all often unspoken and unexamined assumptions about the way that work "should be".

We expect all people, regardless of their personal abilities, morals and capacity, to conform to these expectations. We do this to the extent where we force people to overrule their innate needs to function within this system. And then as every generation enters the workforce, we wonder why they're so different from us; why they "can't handle" what we can. But we've just become acclimated to work culture and to its abuses (not even seeing them as abuses anymore), and pass on the wounds that we have suffered, just as parents pass on their wounds to their children.

But the times are changing, and there are change-makers who are deciding to take a different path. This week's episode of The Hearth is the first of a 2-part miniseries that looks deeper at how we created our current agreements about what is and isn't "work". This episode examines the workings of power in Europe that shaped the nature of work into what it is today, specifically looking into the development and exportation of systems of oppression. 

 I was driven to this research because I hear a lot about "systems of oppression" being at fault for prejudices we experience today. And I agree that is the case, but I wanted to understand really how those systems came into being. It turns out that story goes much further back than the research that I have conducted so far, but it's start, and I'm grateful to be able to share it with you now.

If something you heard today brought a smile to your face or a spark to your heart, and you’d like to connect with me, here are a few ways you can do that. 

One is my newsletter, it’s where I put most of my time and energy when I’m not working with clients or on this podcast.  Sorry social media!  It’s a mix of real life stories, tips and tricks and of course updates on what’s happening with the podcast.  Whenever something is going on with me or in my business, it always comes out there first.

Another resource that I have for you is my Guide to Doing Work Differently.  The guide takes you through four inquiries into how you can build a more sustainable and equitable work environment for yourself and your team.  It's a great place to start.

Last, if you’ve got a burning question, a comment, or a situation you’d like my eyes on, you can email me at [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed this episode, hit subscribe to know when the next episodes come out, and if you’re feeling generous, leave a review.  Reviews help other like-minded folks find their way to this resource.

Learn more about Candice and her work here.

Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson joins me today for a discussion about navigating fear with courage.  Shebreh recently ran for Santa Cruz County Supervisor and experienced a very tough race.  She shares openly and honestly about her experience, the things that spark her fire, and the things that she is going to leave behind.  Here's a taste of our discussion:

• The challenges of running for office
• Grounding in values through painful experiences
• Recognizing commitment behind complaints
• Seeing unity among division
• Navigating fear space with courage
• Trusting yourself
• Moving from apathy to action

Links Mentioned:
Shebreh's Website
Impact Launch

Guide to Doing Work Differently

If something you heard today brought a smile to your face or a spark to your heart, and you’d like to connect with me, here are a few ways you can do that. 

One is my newsletter, it’s where I put most of my time and energy when I’m not working with clients or on this podcast.  Sorry social media!  It’s a mix of real life stories, tips and tricks and of course updates on what’s happening with the podcast.  Whenever something is going on with me or in my business, it always comes out there first.

Another resource that I have for you is my Guide to Doing Work Differently.  The guide takes you through four inquiries into how you can build a more sustainable and equitable work environment for yourself and your team.  It's a great place to start.

Last, if you’ve got a burning question, a comment, or a situation you’d like my eyes on, you can email me at [email protected]. 

If you enjoyed this episode, hit subscribe to know when the next episodes come out, and if you’re feeling generous, leave a review.  Reviews help other like-minded folks find their way to this resource.

Learn more about Candice and her work here.