Women Solopreneur Stories Podcast
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Discover why more and more women are choosing to work for themselves. Listen to inspirational stories from women who have successfully gone out on their own. Learn how they did it, the struggles they overcame and why you can become a successful solopreneur too. Episodes originally released on the Life Skills That Matter Podcast. Find complete show notes at lifeskillsthatmatter.com/podcast
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Rachel Koretsky, founder of upace app, an engagement app for public gyms, shares why to never ignore your gut feelings.
Lot of great nuggets in our conversation including:
1. The value of targeting niche opportunities.
2. How she’s monetizing her app by offering it for free to consumers without selling advertising.
3. How mentors and listening to her gut helped her develop her app.
4. How she landed her first client from an information interview.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show153 from Life Skills That Matter
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Leah Nurik, CEO of Gabriel Marketing, shares why taking risks is so important to figure out what makes you truly happy.
Loads of great insights in our conversation including:
How Leah learned how to take risks on someone else’s dime while working at Motorola.
How she evolved her business from freelancing into an agency.
She describes her own unique mix of ingredients that make her happy in her work.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show152 from Life Skills That Matter
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Swatee Surve, founder of LiteSprite, a firm gamifying healthcare, shares how she mashed up her skills to discover her business idea.
This is one of those episodes where there are a ton of lessons crammed in, so listen carefully! Here are a few highlights:
How her natural attraction to innovation open up opportunities for her she couldn’t have imagined.
What makes her unemployable.
How to know when to turn one of your ideas into a business.
And if you are an experienced professional who thinks your time has passed to launch a startup, Swatee has some good news for you!
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show151 from Life Skills That Matter
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Samantha Attard, founder of Spiro Collective, shares how eating healthy, regularly reflection and moving your body are the foundation for your personal productivity.
There are a ton of fascinating lessons in our conversation including:
Difference between self-reflection and doubt.
How different foods affect her energy level.
Why she decided to create multiple revenue streams for her business and how they feed into each other.
Power of persistence required to build her healthy snack business.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show150 from Life Skills That Matter
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Nita Baum founder of b*free, a freelance consultancy, shares how meditation and self-awareness set the stage for personal liberation.
So many of us feel stuck in our work right now because we aren’t in harmony with ourselves. Nita has loads of great advice in our conversation including:
Why you want to use the word “must” and not “should” when discussing your work. (I completely agree.)
Why we avoid self-reflection, even though it’s a crucial component to our success.
Give yourself permission to define your own version of meditation.
How to tell you are out of alignment with your work.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show149 from Life Skills That Matter
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Francie Wasser, founder of FranciePants, a women's underwear brand, shares how to tap into your gut to let you know when and how to make a pivot in your career.
Lots of great lessons in our conversation including:
She shares why her first business failed because of her lack of focus and passion for the business.
Why she changes her career ever 4 years and the signals that let her know it’s time for a change.
Why having a passion for your business is key for long-term growth.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show148 from Life Skills That Matter
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Cherie Aimee, brand ambassador for the NY Presbytarian and Columbia University Medical Center, shares how a near-death experience made her rethink the role of work in her life.
There are a lot of powerful lessons in this conversation including:
How she overcame the shame of sharing the story of her near-death experience.
Why the ultimate freedom is the freedom to be your true self.
Letting your tribe by drawn to your voice, instead of trying to fit your voice into a tribe.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show145 from Life Skills That Matter
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PJ Jones shares how she started and grew her goat milk soap business to financially sustain her family of 10.
There are a lot of fantastic lessons in our conversation including:
PJ actually never started making goat milk soap to sell it, but a shortfall in her family’s budget helped her recognize it as a business opportunity.
Why giving away free samples is a powerful method for promoting your product or service.
How her business instills her children with the ability to solve real problems and encourages them to never say, “I can’t.”
She recognizes she can’t do it all, so she uses the 80/20 rule to help prioritize everything she needs to do.
And why you need to focus on what you want to do and not what you think you are “suppose” to do.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show139 from Life Skills That Matter
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Learn how to run a personal meal prep business from Allison Schaaf.
There are quite a few amazing lessons in this interview including:
The nitty-gritty of how Allison turned her meal preparation system into a passive income opportunity.
Her most important advice on planning is to start small.
How to increase your productivity through”task chunking” and “time chunking”.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show136 from Life Skills That Matter
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Amy (Fransz) Rachelle, founder of The Remote Trip, shares why she's starting a business to make it easier to live and work remotely.
There’s a lot of great lessons in our conversation including:
Why travel is an important exercise for learning about yourself and your work options.
Recognizing the feelings and thoughts to know when it’s time to try working for yourself.
How she found her first customers.
A day in the life of someone who works remotely from anywhere in the world.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show131 from Life Skills That Matter
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Kristen Gagné, founder of Webtawks, shares how she designed her business to prioritize net good over profits.
Some lessons that popped in our conversation include:
How the 80/20 Rule helped her decide to shift her business model from pursuing largely individual clients to focusing on a B2B model to provide better and more efficient coaching.
How she uses money as a tool to be more efficient with her time and energy.
How she developed a pricing strategy for her services and gained confidence in the value she offers her clients.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show126 from Life Skills That Matter
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Claire (Burge) Haidar shares why you need to continually acquire new skills to thrive in the rapidly changing workplace.
Some fantastic lessons in our conversation include:
Claire shares how a large financial institution decided to reskill their entire workforce to shift from routine tasks to creative problem-solving.
Why you shouldn’t dive into your communication streams in the beginning of your day.
Being ruthless about dedicating your “brilliant window” of 1 to 2 hours a day to your most necessary and creative work.
One of the most important lessons she learned from her parents was daily self-reflection by journaling every morning.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show123 from Life Skills That Matter
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Anna Jhaveri, owner of SoHo Dragon India, she shares why working for herself enabled her to become more balanced and less stressed.
A few lessons worth noting from our conversation include:
Designing a work schedule to accommodate the needs of your health.
How taking time off between working full-time and freelancing gave Anna time to self-reflect and better understand how she really wanted to work.
How she built her current business partnership incrementally.
Fostering remote relationships through great communication and trust.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show109 from Life Skills That Matter
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Julie Gray, a stress and productivity coach, shares how to overcome your negative thinking, so you can thrive.
A few lessons worth noting from our conversation include:
Why starting a meditation practice is such an important method for reducing your stress.
Why the secret to becoming more productive lies within yourself.
Why most of us speed up to deal with our stress when stopping is the better option.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show105 from Life Skills That Matter
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Debra Giunta, founder of Design Dance, shares how to practice self-growth by celebrating your wins and embracing your losses.
Some great lessons in our conversation include:
How Debra used side jobs to fund her business for years until it got off the ground.
All the different revenue streams she’s now built to make the funding of her business more enduring.
How entrepreneurship gives you an opportunity to feel all of your strengths and weaknesses on a regular basis and through all the cycles of success and failure.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show104 from Life Skills That Matter
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Charlene Norman, author of Bulletproof Your Start Up, shares how to overcome any setbacks on your path to gaining your work freedom.
Some very important lessons in our conversation include:
How she focused her mindset to overcome the devastating effects of her stroke.
Why you need to fire some of your clients. She believes don’t hang onto clients that aren’t a good fit, if you’re feeling guilt or if you’re bored with them.
She describes the 6 steps for building a winning mindset.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show103 from Life Skills That Matter
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Amy Kauffman, founder of Givily and Playe's Future, teaches how to create a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) to test your biz idea.
Some important lessons from our conversation include:
How Amy makes time for both of her business and her 2-year old by staying present in all circumstances.
How she manages her work productivity using sprints.
How she recognized her personal need to connect with people and decided to create businesses around that need.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show102 from Life Skills That Matter
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Alyssa Ruff, founder of HR Octane, shares her best advice for starting a consulting business.
Few important lessons that popped up in our conversation include:
How Alyssa built her network of potential clients when she was looking for a job.
How working for a small start-up and then for a Fortune 100 company, offered her apprenticeship-like experiences that enabled her to go out on her own as a consultant.
How she was able to increase her rates as she acquired more clients and experience.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show101 from Life Skills That Matter
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Jennifer Idol, owner of The Under Water Designer, wants to empower you to unite your diverse passions and skills into your ideal work opportunity.
There are lots of great lessons that come out of our conversation including:
Importance of building the right community for developing her dive skills.
Why flying over the fires of the Deep Water Horizon oil spill was a turning point in her life.
How she managed her energy to be able to work full time and work full time on her side business.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show098 from Life Skills That Matter
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Heidi Massey, founder of Community Connective, a diversity and inclusion consultancy, wants to inspire you to embrace experimentation as you figure out your ideal work situation.
A few lessons from our conversation include:
+ How listening to the needs of others turned into business opportunities for Heidi.
If you work for a nonprofit or want to start one, did you know Google Ad Words provides grants up to $10,000/month in ad spending?
We discuss why almost everything is business is both a science and art. Sometimes we focus more heavily on one or the other.
Full show notes at https://lifeskillsthatmatter.com/show100 from Life Skills That Matter
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