The Classy Career Girl Podcast

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Stu is the Founder of Wishlist Member, a software that turns WordPress blogs into memberships sites. Not only has Stu sold over 60,000 licenses of his software to entrepreneurs around the globe, but he also has led multiple 7 figure online membership businesses. Personally, Stu has impacted my business probably more than he knows because I have been using his wishlist member software since I think like 2012 and then in 2016 I took his course TRIBE which single-handedly turned our business around and helped us grow our membership sites from 100 members to 500 members in just 6 months. So thank you Stu first for everything you do and then of course for joining me here today!

I am going to share everything that I have learned over the years, how I quickly create content, how I batch and schedule ahead. Hopefully, this helps you become more organized when it comes to you creating content when it comes to you creating your social media content because we want to reduce stress when it comes to content and plan ahead. So let's dive right in

There are times when we put our family and friends first. I’ll be the first to say that sometimes I’m in survival mode. So first don’t be too hard on yourself and celebrate those baby steps. Things don’t happen overnight. We celebrate every step along the way.  

Today I’m excited to introduce our guest, Dee Ann Turner,  She is a 35-year hiring veteran, 2x best-selling author, speaker, and former Vice President of Talent for Chick-fil-A Dee Ann Turner. In her recently released book, CRUSH YOUR CAREER: ACE THE INTERVIEW, LAND THE JOB, AND LAUNCH YOUR FUTURE (March 2, 2021), Dee Ann shares unparalleled insight on how to discover your passion and grow professionally.   Today on the podcast, Dee Ann shares one of the biggest interview mistakes and practical steps to landing a job this year. You’ll learn how to determine if a job is right for you and how the job market has changed due to the pandemic. I’m so excited for you to hear this episode. If you are stuck in your career and need a change, you are going to love this episode!

I am excited to give this episode today. It's on a very special topic, very timely for me to teach you how to prepare for maternity leave. Especially if you are a business owner like me. If you were an entrepreneur, how do you prepare your business to go on maternity leave? So this is the third baby for me. So I have a lot of practice preparing for maternity leave. That's why I thought this video would be perfect for you. By the time you're watching this, I'll probably already have had the baby, which is super exciting. I wanted to do this video now while it is fresh in my mind because when I'm preparing for maternity leave, I am the most productive I have ever been. Because I want to take a break and I know babies take a lot of time and I gotta have all my tasks done before she comes.

If you want to master social media marketing and PR for your business, you MUST listen to today’s episode. My guests today are Featured in Forbes 2021 30 Under 30, Aisha and Des are passionate about educating businesses on industry trends, providing thought leadership about digital strategy and branding. Listen to this episode and you’ll learn how to convert sales from social media to grow your business, what you need to do to get started getting PR for your business, the latest industry trends we should know about, and some common myths that people have about building your brand. If you are growing a business or brand, listen up because you are going to learn so much from this episode today. Let’s get started!  

I've been getting asked a lot lately, which is how to avoid burnout working from home and being a mom. And I think I'm getting this question a lot because over the last two years we've been through a lot, right? We've had a pandemic. If you're a mom, probably your kids were home a lot longer than you expected them to be. And so it was just very unexpected and there was a lot of burnout and I am not going to lie and say, I didn't get burnt out. From doing a lot of mom, things from doing homeschool, from running a business, trying to do it all.

You are going to LOVE today’s guest on the podcast. If you have ever been overwhelmed trying to grow your business or turn your knowledge into a digital product to sell online, you are definitely going to relate to today’s guest. Christina Scalera is an attorney and founder behind The Contract Shop®, a contract template store for creative entrepreneurs, wedding professionals, and coaches. She is going to share with us today what to focus on first when creating your first product, what to do when you aren’t getting any traffic to your shop, the biggest mistakes new entrepreneurs make when selling their products, and how she built a 7-figure Shopify empire by turning her legal services into digitally downloadable contract templates. So grab a cup of coffee, sit back and relax and get ready to be inspired by today’s guest!

I'm super excited to give you a marketing plan template that's going to help you get consistent clients. I know when you're just getting started growing your business, you might have a client here or there, but how are you going to grow your business? How are you going to quit your day job and do this full-time if you don't have consistent revenue coming in? It is very important when you're starting your business that we focus on getting you recurring revenue and consistent revenue. We can do that with a really good marketing plan template. So let's dive in and I'll share with you the marketing plan template that I have used that has helped me grow my business so I can quit my day job and do what I love every single day.

I am thrilled to introduce you to today’s guest expert. Our guest Jennifer Spivak is the CEO and Founder of The AdGirls Agency and has helped hundreds of businesses generate millions of dollars on Facebook & Instagram. Her all-female team enjoys crunching data, helping women-owned businesses make tons of money, and breaking the rules when it comes to Facebook ads. Jennifer Spivak is the CEO and Founder of The AdGirls Agency, a high-vibe Facebook Ads squad. She has helped hundreds of businesses generate millions of dollars on Facebook & Instagram, with many seeing a 1000%+ return on their ad campaigns. Her all-female team enjoys crunching data, helping women-owned businesses make tons of money, and breaking the rules when it comes to Facebook ads. Jennifer has been featured in Forbes & The New York Times, listed as a Top Facebook Ads Manager to Watch in 2019, and is an adjunct professor of digital marketing at The City College of New York.

I am super excited today to give you the five best business ideas for freedom and flexibility. And I have dabbled in all of these five different business ideas. So I'm excited to give you the behind the scene so you can kind of figure out which business idea you should pick. Because I know when you're starting, you have a lot of ideas and it's a real struggle to narrow down those ideas, make a plan, take the first step, create your strategy and to grow your business. And so I hope this video today provides a little clarity because even if you have a million different ideas. I highly recommend that you listen to this video and you pick one of these five strategies because these are really the best strategies to grow your business.

Today we have an incredible guest on the show. The woman you are about to meet is a best-selling author, speaker, nationally recognized productivity expert, and serves as a growth strategist for female leaders. Our guest today, Tanya Dalton, is also the founder + CEO of inkWELL Press Productivity Co. a multi-million dollar company providing tools that work as a catalyst in helping women do less while achieving maximum success. Tanya recently published her book, On Purpose, and we talk about some of our favorite things, planning, goals and finding your passion. I asked her, How do we figure out what goals we should be setting and what happens when our goals get off track. She shares with you how she built her seven figure business in 18 months and the plans and systems she used to make her goals and dreams happen. I am so excited to introduce you to this episode today, you are going to love it so let’s dive in!

This episode will help you learn how to grow a side hustle from home. And how do you juggle it all when you have a day job and you're trying to grow your side hustle as well. You may be struggling with time management and balance and feel like there's so many things that you need to do. When I was working my day job, I had a full-time day job and I was growing my side business on the side. I really struggled with time management. Like I was trying to do it all. And it was really, really hard. It was a really big struggle. So I'm excited to share my tips with you today on how I found more time and how I really prioritized so that I could grow that side hustle.

In this episode, we are going to talk about balance and I know you are going to love this conversation with my guest expert today. Our guest expert is a busy mom with three kids and a career. And she knows what it's like to be stretched too thin. She will share with us a little bit about her career journey — where she started, what she do today in case people don't know, and what she've learned about life balance and taking back her time.

This podcast episode is sponsored by the Iowa Economic Development Authority. Today I’m excited to introduce our guest, Mary Beth Hart, Director, Community and Diversity Relations at Hy-Vee.  In today’s episode it’s going to be a little different. We are going to go behind the scenes of Mary Beth’s career journey from where she started to where she is today. She is going to share her advice and tips and we are also going to contrast growing your career in a city like Washington DC and a rural area like Iowa. 

If you are feeling burnt out, exhausted and stressed, please listen to this episode. My guest today worked as a management consultant on Wall street and pushed herself so hard that she ended up with a chronic illness for 3 years as a result. Today, you’ll meet Rachael Todd, who now helps other people who are also overworking but feel like they can't slow down through the power of mindset work. Rachael is a mindset coach and the founder of Return to Flow. In today’s episode we talk about the signs of burnout and how to break up with the vicious cycle of our hustle culture. Rachael shares her strategies for setting boundaries and discovering what your true desires are. I wish I would have had this content years and years ago, especially before having kids and continuing for years overwhelmed and miserable myself. Get ready for a life-changing episode. Let’s dive in.

The reason you are stuck and don’t know where or how to start Analysis paralysis. Overwhelm. Don’t know where to start. So many options. So you do nothing because you don’t know which one to do. Following everyone else. They are doing this. They are doing this.

Today I have such a fun interview for you. Today you’ll meet Sarah Mestiri who was one of my clients a long time ago she went through one of my first programs called Love Your Career Formula to identify her dream career. And I was so excited about a year ago she just had a baby and decided she wanted to start a business so she could have more time with her child. She had seen how I grew my business as a mom and wanted to learn from me and so she became one of our CLASS members and has been working through all of my business growth training inside. I’m so excited for you to hear her story of how she launched her business with a baby and during a crazy pandemic year. So let’s dive in.

If you are a leader, you MUST listen to today’s episode. Even if you are a new leader or beginning to hire in your new business, maybe you just got a new job and now have to manage an employee. My guest today is Heather R. Younger is a best-selling author, international speaker, consultant, and facilitator who has earned her reputation as “The Employee Whisperer.” The CEO and Founder of Employee Fanatix, a leading employee engagement, leadership development, and DEI consulting firm. Heather is an author of a new book, The Art of Caring Leadership, and in this episode she’s going to teach you how to bring humanity back to the work environment, how to support your employees and the biggest mistakes that new leaders make. If you want to be a great leader, you are going to love this episode. Let’s dive in. Meet Heather!