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* Welcome to the 16th episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today I'm interviewing Abby Hutcheson!
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EPISODE AT A GLANCE
* About: Eat Work Play Balanced
* Overcoming Obstacles
* Key Priorities in Life/Business
* Shiny Object Syndrome (aka "Squirrel")
* Looking Back
* Easiest and Hardest Parts
* Managing Fear
* Looking Ahead
QUOTES BY TAYLOR
"Whenever we start out on any new endeavor that fear of "Will people even take me seriously? Will they think I’m professional enough? Will they think I know what I’m talking about?" Taylor Bradford
"Take a step back and see, you know, does this really fit in? And like, yeah, shiny objects might look really cool but does it serve your main purpose?" Taylor Bradford
"It’s amazing how when we go down these journeys that that kind of thing can happen…you have to have a reality check even with yourself to say you know what is too much and how can you serve your clients the best and in what manner." Taylor Bradford
"I think that with anything I think we should look at fear as something that’s not necessarily scary because I think if we allow it to creep in and overtake us then it can bring in so much negativity to our business because we start doubting ourselves and our capabilities." Taylor Bradford
QUOTES BY ABBY
"I realized so many women were struggling with the overwhelming fear of weight gain and kind of being stuck in a diet trap I call it, because I had struggled with that for a few years prior to realizing, "oh this is what I want to do." Helping other women get out of that diet trap and mindset so they can just feel at peace with food and their bodies and learn to listen to their bodies again." Abby Hutcheson
"I kind of had this fear that I wouldn’t be able to manage it. I thought okay, ‘Where do I even start and if I don’t know where to start? How can I make this vision come to life of being a health coach?'" Abby Hutcheson
"I’ve really had to learn that just because something sounds good in the moment, you do have to take time to pause and think about the pros and cons of it…and I also ask myself how the opportunity will make me feel. When I’m working on it, if I’m following the expectations the opportunity has given me, will that make me feel energized? Will it fit with my business? Will it help my audience? If it doesn’t I have to say no." Abby Hutcheson
"If you know what the key priorities in your life and in your business are then it’s so much easier to say does this opportunity, no matter how good it is, no matter how much money it will bring me or whatever, does it really fit with what I value and what my top goal and priorities in my business are?" Abby Hutcheson
"The easiest part for me is connecting with other women who are looking for support that I can give them. You know guiding them and creating content whether it’s blog posts or emails or whatever. I find that to come pretty naturally to me and the time management side comes pretty naturally to me as well." Abby Hutcheson
"I like doing things that make me a little bit nervous because the results are always beyond expectations, almost always…I realized that what’s the best that could happen way, way, way outweighs what’s the worst…asking if this will benefit the women I work with." Abby Hutcheson
"Remember as a boss girl that you are a boss girl because you want to be more in control of your lifestyle, how you feel, your schedule, your income all of that. So with that being said make sure that you are really clear about what it is you want; how you do want to feel, how you want your days and your weeks to look like. Once you know that you can design your business and schedules around that." Abby Hutcheson
RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED
Slack
Evernote
Google Docs
Fearless Launching
Product Launch Formula by Jeff Walker
SHOUT-OUTS
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Anne Samoilov
Jeff Walker
Brian Tracy
Darren Hardy
Chalene Johnson
Starbucks
Shania Twain
Whitney Houston
Jimmy Fallon
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Website - http://eatworkplaybalanced.com
Facebook - Eat Work Play Balanced
Instagram - @eatworkplaybalanced
Pinterest - @ewpbalanced
Work with Abby
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* Welcome to the 15th episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today I'm interviewing Stephanie Buckley, aka The Park Wife.
* This episode was created sitting on the floor in a hotel room in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
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EPISODE AT A GLANCE
* Overcoming Obstacles
* Picking the Best Opportunities
* Looking Back
* Easiest and Hardest Moments
* Encountering Fear in Business
* Keeping Balance
* Blowing it as a Boss Girl
* Look into the Future
* Admiring Women
QUOTES BY TAYLOR
"You really have to have, A) You probably have to have a thick skin and you have to have the ability to know that tomorrow is another day and that you get to try all over again." Taylor Bradford
QUOTES BY STEPHANIE
"Everything has changed over these past ten years and as far as obstacles just keeping up with how fast everything is changing and also, not only in just the business and tech world, but also in your personal world." Stephanie Buckley
"One thing I have always done is never compromise my integrity. So if something came along and I didn’t feel it was right with who I am and if it wasn’t worth the time away from my family I said no. And I think because of that I have a great world of people that feed me and encourage me and I try to do the same for them." Stephanie Buckley
"I was just trying to find other people to hang out with. I couldn’t imagine that we would have communities in eight states and amazing women lifting each other up and helping each other become better women and bloggers and social media influencers." Stephanie Buckley
"The easiest for me because it’s one of my giftings is community building and I think that the hardest is probably when it kind of exploded for me as a business to transition to owning a business, being a business owner and having people that relied on me and I relied on them and sometimes that’s a little dance." Stephanie Buckley
"You can tango or you can slow dance but at the end of the day you have to just be happy with the person you chose to dance with." Stephanie Buckley
"I surround myself with like women. I have never with the state communities ever went to a state and sought someone to build a community because I think it takes a special gift to build a community. And I’ve just been blessed that those people have just come into my life and the ones that have been there like you [Taylor], who have been there from the beginning of Texas Women Bloggers came along, and you have been there that whole time and I have that in several of my states of just champions for what we want to do and all I do is a business now but it doesn’t work without community." Stephanie Buckley
"It takes a lot of work to build a community and the rewards are great but sometimes people don’t understand the work that goes into building a community." Stephanie Buckley
"If I blow it I just laugh at it, say ‘sweet mercy’ and move on because there is only so much you can do you know it’s not the end of the world. Tomorrow will come, my husband will still love me, my kids will still be there and if I blew something in my business you know we all pick ourselves up and tomorrow’s another day." Stephanie Buckley
"You always hear ‘go be amazing’ and I always laugh at that because you know you can’t always be amazing, but you can be you. And so don’t put on an act and try to be amazing all the time because that’s not the true you, that’s not who I want to know, I want to know who you are. So go out there and be honest and true and do good work that means something to you and help others and be a blessing on them." Stephanie Buckley
RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED
The Women Bloggers, LLC
Arkansas Women Bloggers
Arkansas Women Bloggers University Conference
Texas Women Bloggers
SHOUT-OUTS
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Hot Springs, Arkansas
Mountain Valley Spring Water
Arlington Hotel
Ree Drummond
Alli Worthington
Taste Arkansas
Only in Ark
Starbucks
Dr. Pepper
Texas Women Bloggers
Alabama Women Bloggers
Missouri Women Bloggers
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Sandy Coughlin
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Blog - The Park Wife
Twitter - @theparkwife
Facebook - TheParkWife
Pinterest - @theparkwife
The Women Bloggers, LLC - http://www.thewomenbloggers.com
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* Welcome to the 13th episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today I'm interviewing design blogger and author, Kristy Woodson Harvey.
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EPISODE AT A GLANCE
* Overcoming Obstacles
* Becoming an Author
* Publishing vs. Indie Route
* Looking at Opportunities
* Learning Balance
* Easiest and Hardest Experiences
* Managing Fear
* Looking Ahead
QUOTES BY TAYLOR
"I stumbled on blogging because of the Pioneer Woman. Like I had seen her blog and I literally started binge reading it because I was like ‘wow what is this, I didn’t know these things existed!’ So I totally get like, I never thought in a million year I would be podcasting with you [Kristy] right now!" Taylor Bradford
"I have met some of the greatest people in this space…and this has been the best thing as an adult to find female people to chat with you know that have common interests and all that good stuff." Taylor Bradford
"It’s all about just do it, just start, just make that first one go away and then you will get comfortable in your own skin and what you are doing, that no matter what it is so if it is public speaking or pitching yourself to a brand or whatever it is, you’re literally holding your own self back so being able to putting one foot in front of the other and just starting." Taylor Bradford
"That first no will happen, but then the yes’s will start coming in!" Taylor Bradford
QUOTES BY KRISTY
"Especially with becoming an author, it’s just a very daunting thing to look at the statistics and see how difficult it really can be to actually you know get published in the way that I wanted to be published…it was kind of scary to even put myself out there and be open to that rejection, that was something I kind of has to fight through and get over." Kristy Woodson Harvey
"I’ve always wanted to be a writer I think, even when I was little I was carrying around notebooks and writing down little stories and um, I went to journalism school and I really thought that was what I wanted to do, be a journalist of some sort." Kristy Woodson Harvey
"I wanted to be able to look back and say, you know I went for it and this is something I really wanted to achieve and I kind of got that big five New York publishing house dream." Kristy Woodson Harvey
"There are so many details that go into bringing a book to life that I wasn’t really aware of until I was in this process and I think it’s amazing." Kristy Woodson Harvey
"I think it’s different when you’re writing something with a message that you really want to get out to the world, you know I think if I has been in that situation, maybe the indie route would have made more sense." Kristy Woodson Harvey
"On a daily basis you are really having to do a gut check of you know does this work for my audience, is this something my audience is going to like. I think one of the things for my mom and me is this idea was a complete hobby from the very beginning...we were in this for fun and to do things that we love and to share things that we love with our readers who we feel really, really close to. So I think on the blog end it’s easier for us to say no to opportunities that don’t really mesh well because we only want to showcase those things or those designers that we know our readers are going to love and be really excited about." Kristy Woodson Harvey
"As a writer there are things that come to you that man and I think three years ago I would have fallen all over that but you know today I only have so much time and there are only so many hours in the day, I think it just kind of comes back to priorities." Kristy Woodson Harvey
"It’s amazing to see all these people who work together and build each other up you know that’s what people are doing and it’s amazing how the world can become such a small place in such a great way you know to have friends with common interests just all over the place and feel like we know them so well."
"I think managing fear is kind of a practice I mean, I think it’s like you know they say will power is a muscle or self-control is a muscle you know the more you work it the stronger it get and I kind of think it’s the same with fear, the more you face it, the more you dive into and the more it turns out to not be very bad at all." Kristy Woodson Harvey
"It’s never going to be the perfect moment...you just have to figure out what it is that you really want and then try to figure out a way to make it happen and I think sometimes those excuses that we use are the reason we can’t do something, and that’s really just the fear getting in." Kristy Woodson Harvey
RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED
Periscope
Instagram
SHOUT-OUTS
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The Pioneer Woman - Ree Drummond
Jennifer Weiner
Elin Hilderbrand
Maghon Taylor
Starbucks
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FIND KRISTY ONLINE
Author Blog - KristyWoodsonHarvey.com
Design Blog: Design Chic
Instagram - @kristywharvey
Facebook - Design Chic
Twitter - @mydesignchic
Pinterest - @mydesignchic
Book - Dear Carolina
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* Welcome to the 12th episode of the Boss Girl Creative Podcast!! Today I'm interviewing fellow Texan, Amy Lynn Andrews. You may have heard of her famous Useletter®. It's a weekly newsletter that features actionable tips to help your workflow, becoming a better boss girl, and so much more!
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EPISODE AT A GLANCE
* Obstacles in Business/Blogging
* The Useletter®
* Choosing the right kind of Opportunity that comes your way
* How to respond to an Opportunity that isn't a great fit at the time
* Setting work/life boundaries & finding balance
* Tools to keep flow of work going
* How to manage fear in business
QUOTES BY TAYLOR
"What are you being asked all the time over and over and over. Create a product around that." Taylor Bradford
"I love Periscope. It's been a really fun way to just kind of meet your community where they are." Taylor Bradford
QUOTES BY AMY
"I have a really hard time landing on one thing and sticking with it. So, I get, shiny app syndrome or whatever you want to call it. So all of these social media things are new and exciting and interesting. And I'm like 'oh that looks nice, let me see what that's all about' and I sort of get lost along the way. So it's been really hard for me to stick with one thing and go in that direction." Amy Lynn Andrews
"When I started the Useletter®, I don't know what it is about the difference in the writing, it's still writing, but for some reason I'm able to write the Useletter® every week. And over 2 years, I've only missed 2 weeks of sending it out. And that is shocking for me and both of those 2 weeks were actually planned." Amy Lynn Andrews
"My biggest obstacle is just sticking to it and being consistent." Amy Lynn Andrews
"The way that it call came about (The Useletter®)...I realized, oh my goodness, this whole blogging thing is really becoming more than just blogging. Now we have social media and we have YouTube and of course all of the different platforms on social media. And the stuff you that you need to do and all the changes that come with it all the time. So blogging is much bigger and really we not really bloggers anymore. We're digital content producers." Amy Lynn Andrews
"If I can't say yes (to an opportunity), I definitely can get behind this and promote it, then I say no." Amy Lynn Andrews
"I like to keep my options open. Generally I'll just say, if I have to say no to something, you know "Thanks for reaching out. Given my current projects, I am going to have pass this time. But please keep me in mind for similar projects down the road and maybe we can collaborate sometime in the future." Amy Lynn Andrews
"(Loving your job)...To get to a point where, my goodness, I get to do this every day. And then on top of it, I get paid to do it. Could life be any better?" Amy Lynn Andrews
"(Finding balance)...The first thing that comes to mind is we're always in flex. And allowing ourselves to look at the season we are in. And then create your schedule around that." Amy Lynn Andrews
"(Finding balance)...Number 2 is for me especially, I need in order to be really super productive, I need to have a really good chunk of time to sort of get into the zone and work for several hours. And then be able to come out of it at the other end. Before I was trying to squeeze work in the nooks and crannies of life. You know, like here's an hour free or here's a couple of hours free, or I've got 10 minutes to go through email or whatever. That's hard. Now I have a full day, once a week, where I leave in the morning and don't come home until late in the evening or afternoon. And I just work all day." Amy Lynn Andrews
"Make a list the night before, preparing yourself for what you are going to work on the next day." Amy Lynn Andrews
"I think it's important to think big picture." Amy Lynn Andrews
"I really have made a point of staying nimble. Which means keeping things running in such a way that I can change really quickly." Amy Lynn Andrews
"I'm moving away from blogging as we know it, let's say. And really thinking about what I want to do going forward. Just as blogging has changed so much and there's so many new things on the horizon all of the time. And I don't think people are reading blogs as much as they used to. So I think that we are kind of at this point where we gotta figure out what we are going to do moving forward. Because I don't think that the way we've done it in the past, blogging in general, is really going to keep us all moving forward as we go. There's a lot of microblogging now on social media platforms and of course Podcasting and Video, like we said. So, I'm just in the process of trying to turn around my the whole ship that I started, really." Amy Lynn Andrews
RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED
Useletter®
White Noise App: Rain, Rain Sleep Sounds (iPhone)
Pomodoro Technique
Periscope
YouTube
SHOUT-OUTS
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Kristen Welch - We Are That Family
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Blog - AmyLynnAndrews.com
Instagram - @amylynnandrews
Facebook - AmyLynnAndrews
Twitter - @AmyLynnAndrews
Pinterest - @amylynnandrews
Hey Amy Show - http://amylynnandrews.com/heyamy/
Useletter® - http://amylynnandrews.com/useletter/
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