Jill Salzman wants no part of the traditional business landscape. Also, she can't stop shouting, especially when it comes to biz advice. Why Are We Shouting? tackles the A’s to every mom entrepreneur’s Q’s when it comes to running a company and lets you in on the stories along the way. Jill ponders the big questions of our day: “How can I grow my business without losing my mind?” “Why can’t my kids stop whining when I’m on an important call?” "How long will it take before Stephen Colbert's t ...
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Breaking Down Your Business | Small Business | Business Owners | Entrepreneurship | Leadership
Jill Salzman and Brad Farris
Brad Farris & Jill Salzman tackle the most complex small business questions of our day. "Why can't I hire competent employees?" "How do I make more money without driving myself nuts?" "How do I take over the world?" They’ll get to the bottom of these mysteries with help from entrepreneurial geniuses, product pushers, brilliant branders and a ragtag team of moguls intent on magnifying profit. The soothsayers of success have arrived, and you don’t want to miss the priceless insights of these p ...
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Product Hunt Radio is a a weekly podcast with the people creating and exploring the future. Tune in every week with Ryan Hoover and Abadesi Osunsade as they're joined by founders, investors, journalists, and makers to discuss the latest in tech.
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What’s In This Episode: How do you address people when you contact them? If you’re still writing emails that start with “hi there!” and you’re still making phone calls that begin “heyyyyy…how are you?” then I’m gonna argue that you’re missing the boat. This week, we’re gonna up your name game. It’s time to start paying attention to the little thing…
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What’s In This Episode: If someone told you that you didn’t have to work so hard to run your business, would you listen to them? It’s time to re-examine how much effort you’re pouring into your day-to-day and WHERE you’re focusing your energy. Guest star Frank Agin will walk you through his big business blunder, which may very likely be one that yo…
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What’s In This Episode: Do you spend a lot of time on your phone or your laptop when you’re around your kids? We’ve all heard about the parents that throw their phones away when their kids need their attention. But it’s not realistic. How can you get work done and continue to maintain a gorgeous relationship with your kids? Where there’s a will, th…
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What’s In This Episode: How slowly or quickly do you get things done? Everyone works at a different pace. Some folks prefer to take their sweet time. Others speed through their work days without looking back. Jill’s speed-of-lightening pace has gotten her into terrible awful no good very bad blunders, one of which left her stranded in the middle of…
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What’s In This Episode: Do you throw the kitchen sink at potential customers and clients when you’re trying to make a sale? It’s time to meet Josh Hall, web designer and founder of In Transit Studios, who once wanted you to know eeeeeeeverything there was to know about him. But why was that his big business blunder? Josh'll tell you all about it. J…
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What’s In This Episode: Remember slipping up on that pitch you sent to that sponsor that one time? Let Jill help you out of the messes that you might make in the future when pitching to sponsors — and if you haven’t ever pitched a sponsor for your business yet, may this episode be the driving force that gets you going and creates a whole new stream…
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What’s In This Episode: What do Weight Watchers, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Peloton have in common? To answer that question, Jill wants to introduce you to a few of her friends that are WAY into their hobbies for one very specific reason. It’s a reason that might be the same for you and how you do what you do, too. Jill Salzman turns the mundane int…
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What’s In This Episode: Do you have too much work to do? Too busy to plan a vacation or even a staycation? Too complicated to coordinate days off or to figure it out with your kids’ crazy schedules? Excuses, excuses. It’s time to stop overlooking the best remedy for all your work woes. We’re not built to work and worry 24/7, so why not finally do s…
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What’s In This Episode: Why is it that we entrepreneurs often walk on the sunny side of the street? Is it because we’re risk takers? Optimistic? Persistent people who get carried away? Meet employee-turned-entrepreneur Naa Ardua Flohic, founder of Paper Flo Designs, who got herself into a big business back-up plan blunder. She’ll remind you why it …
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What’s In This Episode: When you’re running a business, you have to consider a LOT of words. It’s tedious, it’s exhausting, and you could argue that writing for business is its own form of insanity. But when you take Stephen King’s advice to heart and blend it with decades of experience writing newsletters, marketing materials, articles, emails, an…
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What’s In This Episode: Wanna know just how interconnected the world really is? Find out what dentists and Meetup.com have in common, why it’s important to tell your hairdresser what you do for a living, and how your business problems don’t have to be solved by your lonesome. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the imposs…
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What’s In This Episode: Haggling. Bargaining. Hammering out a deal. Negotiating is an age-old practice that goes back to the before times – and then before that – because we are human and communicating is what we do best. So how come we’re slow to realize that negotiation is always an option? Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and tran…
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What’s In This Episode: Messaging is tough. You can certainly overdo it. You don’t wanna underwhelm, either. How do we walk that fine line somewhere between the two and give people the confidence they need to buy what we have to sell? Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying …
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What’s In This Episode: Are you a word nerd? Whether you like it or not, you need to arrange and rearrange words in a particular order to convey what you sell. You use spelling and grammar all over social media, your website, and in your emails on the daily. So what happens when you hire a contractor to write things on your behalf and she makes mis…
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What’s In This Episode: When you make changes to your business and ask your customers or clients to come with you, how smoothly do things usually go? Nobody likes change. Founders fight it regularly. So do their customers. But the next time you wanna placate to your people, is there a way you might be able to introduce the changes you’d like to mak…
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What’s In This Episode: How much of your ego is attached to the moment that a client fires you? We can all learn a little something from the folks that fire us. Let’s pay more attention to the next time someone lets us go, shall we? In that act, they’re offering important information to us so that we can improve the way we do business. Jill Salzman…
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What’s In This Episode: Have you ever hired someone who came highly recommended to you by someone you deeply trust? What happened next? There was that one time Jill hired a really great website developer and, well, you can guess how this one went. (Spoiler alert: it wasn't good.) Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the im…
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What’s In This Episode: Remember that time that you showed up for work and scared half the people in the room? Let’s explore all the gory details of Jill’s most recent public speaking engagement and how she royally screwed it right up by saying all the wrong things…so that you don’t have to. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and trans…
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What’s In This Episode: Have you ever considered investing money in something that you really believe in? When you take a gamble, it’s obviously a risk. But the more seasoned an investor you become, the less of a gamble you take. So what happens when a really seasoned investor – like The Real Estate InvestHer’s founder, Liz Faircloth – experiences …
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What’s In This Episode: When you prep to step away from the office, do you get busy crafting the perfect away message? Let’s dig in to the way we communicate with people when we can’t communicate with people. More often than not, entrepreneurs just love to make this one complicated. But it doesn’t have to be. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into ins…
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There's a "thing" that you are good at, likely better at than anyone else in your agency, and the more you do that "thing" the more you are holding back the growth of your agency. Your job is no longer "doing the thing" -- as the leader of your growing agency your job is to build the system in which "the thing" gets done. If you have to do it, your…
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What’s In This Episode: It's a wild time in our lives. Jill decides to find out what it's like for Eraina Ferguson and Dr. Charity Hughes who have unique experiences as Black mom entrepreneurs trying to continue running their businesses and manage their kids' emotional roller coaster rides all while attempting to take care of themselves. Get Jill's…
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What’s In This Episode: Jill Salzman lets you in on a little secret. (Spoiler alert: it's the best way to grow your business, mom entrepreneurs.) She shares a surprising story never heard anywhere else about famed actor Paul Rudd that highlights why she's shouting. Get her tip top tool of the week, her foray into TV show stardom, and the ridiculous…
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What’s In This Episode: Brad: Welcome to breaking down your business, episode 365. You can find the show notes of this episode of breakingdownyourbusiness.com/365. Jill: It's us again. Oh my gosh, 365 episodes. Brad: It's like a whole year. People don't spend a whole year with us. Jill: Look at you, good at math. Brad: I did that in my head. Jill: …
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What does it mean to re-open my business?
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What’s In This Episode: Brad: Welcome to breaking down your business episode 364. [crosstalk 00:00:10]. Jill: Hello. It's still up. Brad: You can find the show notes for this episode of breaking down your business.com/ Jill: I don't know, but you just said episood. I don't know. Brad: 364. Jill: It's like you still can't pronounce. We're 364 episod…
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I'm not shouting this is how we all talk now.
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What’s In This Episode: Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business, episode 363. You can find the show notes for this episode on breakingdownyourbusiness.com/363. Brad: Hey there, Jill. Jill, you're on mute. The button on the lower left, the one that looks like a mike- Jill: Hello. Brad: There you go. There you go. Jill: Hello. Brad: There you go…
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What’s In This Episode: Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business episode 362. [crosstalk 00:00:03] You can find [inaudible 00:00:04] of this episode at breakingdownyourbusiness.com/362. Jill: That was me imitating you, but it didn't work. Brad: Hi Jill. Jill: Hi Brad. Brad: I'm Brad from Anchor Advisors. Jill: I am Jill from the Founding Moms a…
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What’s In This Episode: Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down your Business episode 361. Jill: We're still here. Welcome back. Brad: You can check the show notes of this episode on breakingdownyourbusiness.com/361. Jill: 361, that's a lot of episodes. Brad: I am Brad Farris from Anchor Advisors. Jill: You are not. I'm Jill Salzman from The Founding Moms. …
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What’s In This Episode: Brad: If you're sick and tired, and every time you think about your business it makes you go aah, that is a poor indicator of your business health. Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business, episode 357. Jill: No, no, no, no. No, no. No. Brad: You can find the show notes to this episode at breakingdownyourbusiness.com/357…
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How to bounce back as a maker with Josh Howarth
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On this episode Abadesi talks to Josh Howarth, co-founder of Exploding Topics. In this episode they talk about... His early days as a maker and what he would change if he could do things over again “It’s not the case that you build it and they will come. It took me two months to build and then I was like, now what? I hadn’t thought at all about mar…
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What’s In This Episode: Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business episode [inaudible 00:00:04] and we're back. You can find the show notes for this episode at breakingdownyourbusiness.com/359. Jill: Yes. Brad: I am Brad Farris from Anchor Advisors. Jill: You're so shouty today. I'm Jill from the Founding Moms. Brad: I'm always shouty, Jill. Jill…
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Making good typography more accessible and common design pitfalls to avoid with Matthew Paul
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On this episode Abadesi talks to Matthew Paul, software product designer, researcher, and front-end engineer. He’s a former product designer at InVision, he’s worked on software and design systems at IBM, and has designed prototypes at Apple. In this episode they talk about... The open-source design project he’s working on, and how to make good des…
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Flying blind? At least you have your dashboard! | w/ Nathan Hirsch
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What’s In This Episode: Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business! Jill: There he is! Brad: Episode 358. Jill: So exciting! Brad: You can find the show notes of this episode of BreakingDownYourBusiness.com/358. Jill: All the numbers correct in the numbers episode. Brad: Yes! We're talking about numbers for the month of April.…
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The future of remote work and digital nomadism with Pieter Levels
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On this episode Abadesi talks to Pieter Levels, founder of Nomad List, a global community of international travellers working around the world, RemoteOK, a job board for remote jobs, and Hoodmaps, a unique neighborhood map app. In this episode they talk about... Bootstrapping versus VC, and why he doesn’t want to build a team around his products “I…
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What’s In This Episode: Brad: Welcome to episode 357 of Breaking Down Your Business. Jill: Hello everybody. Brad: There's Jill. Jill: Hey. I- Brad: I'm Brad. Jill: ... Already miss you, Brad. I'm Jill and you're Brad. Brad: It's true. Jill: And it's really, really difficult to do this right now. Do you want to tell the people why? Brad: Well, so th…
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How to get acquired with Waseem Daher of Pilot
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On this episode Abadesi talks to Waseem Daher, founder and CEO of Pilot. Pilot is bringing bookkeeping into the modern age. He has started (and sold!) two other companies prior to Pilot. In this episode they talk about... The story of starting Pilot and what Waseem learned from his two previous companies “The end-to-end solution is really what made…
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What’s In This Episode: Brad: I think a lot of people spend time with that sort of good fit. And they just think that's what business is, it's hard, you have to go out and scratch and claw and dig things up. And they're trying lots of things but nothing's really sticking. Jill: Yep, yep. Brad: And so I just don't want people to live in that territo…
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How to design products that delight your users with Slack’s VP of design Ethan Eismann
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On this episode Abadesi talks to Ethan Eismann, VP of Design at Slack. He has previously worked on flagship products at Google, Uber, and Airbnb, as well as at Adobe back when Flash was still a thing! In this episode they talk about... The consumerization of the enterprise and bringing personality to software “You need somebody who is really able t…
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What’s In This Episode: Jill: In my industry there are a lot of assumptions and stereotypes like moms love to drink wine. I'll tell you right now, this mom does not. Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business episode 354, no, 355. It's 355. Jill: You can't read numbers now. Brad: No, I just can't remember numbers. Jill: This is fun. This is a goo…
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How to sell your product to enterprise customers with Michelle Bacharach
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On this episode Abadesi talks to Michelle Bacharach, founder and CEO of FINDMINE, a retail technology company that uses machine learning to scale the currently manual and tedious process of product curation. They are a fast-growing company with clients like Adidas, Perry Ellis, and Callaway. In this episode they talk about... What led Michelle to f…
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What’s In This Episode: Jill: When you talk about online networking, it sounds like we're relieving you of actual traditional face-to-face networking, which I think there's almost nothing more important. Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business, episode 354. Jill: You are welcome. Brad: Welcome. You can find the show notes for this episode at b…
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How to capitalize on the future of work with Ryan Simonetti
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On this episode Abadesi talks to Ryan Simonetti, co-founder and CEO of Convene. They call themselves commercial real estate’s first workplace-as-a-service platform. He co-founded the company in 2009 and have raised $260M in funding to date. He is also an investor in and advisor to tech startups. In this episode they talk about... The story of found…
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Paid Traffic vs. "Free" | w/ Alyssa Westring
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What’s In This Episode: Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business, episode 352. You can find the show notes for this episode at breakingdownyourbusiness.com/352. Jill: I haven't complained about the volume in a long time. Brad: But when you do complain and then I do it softly, you complain about that too. Jill: Yes. Brad: So there's just no way …
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How to grow and monetize communities with Jill Salzman
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On this episode Abadesi talks to Jill Salzman, founder of The Founding Moms, a “global collective of offline masterminds and online resources for mom entrepreneurs.” She was formerly the founder of a music management firm and was also the creator of a line of baby jewelry. In this episode they talk about... The story of the creation of The Founding…
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What’s In This Episode: Brad: I'm a big fan of podcasting. Jill: Same. Brad: I think podcasting is a great way to demonstrate expertise. Jill: Agreed. Brad: However, it is a long tail process. Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business, episode 352. You can find the show notes for this episode of breakingdownyourbusiness.com/352. Jill: So glad [inaudib…
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How to launch an operator-led fund with Brianne Kimmel
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On this episode Abadesi talks to Brianne Kimmel, founder of Work Life, an early stage venture firm in Silicon Valley that invests in tools and services for the modern workplace. She was formerly head of product and GTM strategy at Zendesk. In this episode they talk about... Why she started Work Life and what she learned while fundraising “There are…
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What’s In This Episode: Jill: If you want to play to my heartstrings, like every good story, like every good book or movie, I need you to move me emotionally. Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business, episode 351. You can find the show notes for this episode at breakingdownyourbusiness.com/351. Jill: 351. Brad: When you go there, you might noti…
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How to invest in overlooked ideas with Harlem Capital's John Henry
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On this episode Abadesi talks to John Henry, venture partner at Harlem Capital and host of Hustle on VICELAND. In this episode they talk about... How he got into entrepreneurship and how the expectations for today’s entrepreneurs have changed “I think the world of business and entrepreneurship can seem pretty scary these days. There's so much at st…
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Your customer is on a journey -- how can you join them? w/ Priscilla McKinney
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What’s In This Episode: Brad: I think a lot of people know things. There's a difference between knowing something and being able to articulate it in a way that someone else will understand. Brad: Welcome to Breaking Down Your Business Episode 350. You can find the show notes and stuff at BreakingDownYourBusiness.com/350. Jill: I'm so proud of you. …
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How to grow your brand with Instagram with Year & Day Founder Kathryn Duryea Wyndowe
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On this episode Abadesi talks to Kathryn Duryea Wyndowe, founder and CEO of Year & Day. They make beautiful tableware that they sell direct-to-consumer online via their website. In this episode they talk about... How she came up with the idea for Year & Day “I felt very empowered by this idea of buying a new set of plates outside of this propositio…
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