The Unlimited Podcast is a podcast for badass women who are on a journey to release learned limitations and live a more present, joyful, and intentional life. It's about reaching for the stars while keeping your feet on the ground. Your Host, Valerie Friedlander is an ICF certified coach, sociologist, business owner, and mom. You can find out more at www.valeriefriedlander.com and follow her on Instagram @unlimitedcoachval
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No one plans for having a transgender kid. Camp Wild Heart is your guide for raising a transgender or non-binary child and nurturing an affirming family. We help you ease your fear and navigate your confusion. Mackenzie Dunham, clinical social worker and co-founder of Wild Heart Society, talks with parents, experts, and transgender adults about the ins and outs of coping with internalized transphobia, fostering shame resilience, exploring medical transition for youth, understanding identity ...
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Being Boss® is an exploration of what it takes to be boss as a creative business owner, entrepreneur, freelancer, or side-hustler. Join host Emily Thompson as she explores the mindsets, habits, and tactics of harnessing your creative ambitions and embracing the adventure of starting and growing your own business so that you can make money doing work you love. This feed contains episodes 240-359 of the original Being Boss show. To find episodes 1-239 of the show that was co-hosted with Kathle ...
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Being Boss® is an exploration of what it takes to be boss as a creative business owner, entrepreneur, freelancer, or side-hustler. Join host Emily Thompson as she explores the mindsets, habits, and tactics of harnessing your creative ambitions and embracing the adventure of starting and growing your own business so that you can make money doing work you love. Brought to you by HubSpot Podcast Network.
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Collaborative Leadership from Boardroom to Patient-Centered Caregiving with Heather Maurer
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Send me a text! Collaborative Leadership from Boardroom to Patient-Centered Caregiving is essential for fostering effective relationships between CEOs and board members, as well as between healthcare professionals and patients. This approach not only enhances organizational dynamics but also improves patient outcomes by prioritizing communication, …
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Micro-Actions to Manifest Big Change with Taina Brown
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Send me a text! Micro-actions to manifest big change is key because we can often feel overwhelmed by the changes we want to make in our own life, let alone the change we’d like to see in the world. The best part is micro-actions naturally build on themselves. First and most obviously, they provide momentum as you do the next thing and then the next…
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Send me a text! Realigning your core values requires exploring both what is consciously important to you AND your societal conditioning. Your values, both conscious and subconscious, shape your decisions and motivate our behavior. If you find yourself feeling stuck, drained, or sabotaging what you say you want, it’s likely you have a subconscious v…
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Navigating our Relationship with Death with Nikki Smith
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Send me a text! Navigating our relationship with death is a profound part of our human experience, yet we often avoid talking about it. This avoidance not only prevents us from asking for and receiving care, it also reduces our capacity to provide care. Additionally, we must be able to embrace our mortality (rather than trying to transcend it) in o…
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3 Essentials to Maximize Your Experience at an Event
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Send me a text! “Three Essentials to Maximize Your Experience at an Event” provides a strategy to keep your planning simple and ensure you get the most out of your investment of time, money, and energy. Some of the obstacles to event ROI include overwhelm, self-doubt, shiny object, peer pressure, FOMO, and other such distractions. Additionally, the…
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Redefining Our Relationship to Productivity with Lisa Zawrotny
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Send me a text! Redefining our relationship to productivity is a necessary component of preventing burnout and cultivating well-being. Our current societal relationship to productivity is built on Industrial Revolution era conception of work ethic. This conception wraps our value into what we can produce, dehumanizing us in the process. In order to…
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Tending Your Self-Relationship through Values & Shadow Work with Erica Courdae
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Send me a text! Tending your self-relationship through values & shadow work helps you engages the roots of your motivation and how you live your life. Our values form the basis of our core motivations. Shadow work helps us acknowledge and heal the wounds that inhibit awareness and access to our full self. While we live in a world full of obstacles …
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Cultivating Collaboration Over Competition
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Send me a text! Cultivating collaboration over competition is essential in today's interconnected world. We don't exist in a vacuum; our social understanding and discernment must be engaged collectively. The spaces we inhabit, like social media platforms, exert significant influence on our interactions, sometimes more than our intentions to be coll…
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Reclaiming Creativity and Healing Through Art with Krishna Kayastha
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Send me a text! Reclaiming creativity and healing through art is essential because you’re innately creative, even if you’re someone who wouldn’t label yourself as “a creative.” Many of people learn to disconnect from their creativity as children because self-expression doesn’t feel safe, pressure to do art “right” surrounded it with perfectionism, …
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Foundations for Authentic Public Relations with Catharine Montgomery
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Send me a text! Foundations for authentic public relations support building solid connections whether you are an organization or individual. The value of truly listening to others, understanding different perspectives and pathways toward a goal, and then following through on what you learn cannot be overstated. These principles of communication and…
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Send me a text! Understanding the 5 Love Languages has helped facilitate communication for many people but it has numerous limitations. While the 5 Love Languages has become an extremely popular relationship tool, it’s not a fix-all and it may not be the right approach for everyone. What about this tool makes it helpful and where it falls short can…
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Building a Relationship to Pleasure and Intimacy with Daniela Stevens
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Send me a text! Building a relationship to pleasure and intimacy takes a lot of intention in this society that still treats talking about sex as taboo. So many people struggle with intimacy due to lack of communication, trauma, and societal conditioning to disconnect from their bodies and desires. Improving intimacy requires us to unlearn harmful n…
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Send me a text! Creating healthy relationships in all areas of our life is the focus of this season of Unlimited. A relationship is how we relate to another person, place, thing, or even concept. How we relate to ourselves is at the core of how we relate to others. Yet, how we understand and relate to ourselves is also built from those external rel…
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Season 3 Wrap-up and New Year Transition Tips
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Send me a text! Discover valuable New Year transition tips in this Season 3 wrap-up for the Unlimited Podcast. The period between one cycle and the next is a great time to reflect both on where you’ve been and where you’re going. It’s important to create supportive space to engage and focus that reflection. You can set that foundation through honor…
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Aligning With Your Astrology with Babs Cheung
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Send me a text! Aligning with your astrology is a way to explore what works for you. From new year plans to parenting, it’s one thing to recognize that there’s no one size fits all, but it can be hard to step outside the norms without some kind of framework to work from. Not to mention, it’s even harder to think outside the box when you’re already …
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Accessing the True Power of Gratitude: Beyond Individualism
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Send me a text! Accessing the true power of gratitude requires going beyond the individual mindset approach that is typically referenced. Expressions of gratitude have been observed among many communally based species. It supports group functioning. Thus, the true power of gratitude is in collective connection, not individual mindset. Studies show …
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How to Create Belonging with Amena Chaudhry
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Send me a text! How to create belonging starts with understanding that most of us don’t know what belonging really is. It’s hard to create something that you haven’t first experienced and there is a difference between intellectually understanding vs experiencing something. What most of us do experience is strong conditioning from a young age around…
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Send me a text! Reclaiming humanity through grief is necessary for our ability to intentionally create a world that honors each person's humanity. Understanding and having space to grieve and support each other through our grief helps us to connect to our shared humanity. In so many often unconscious ways, we are encouraged to dehumanize ourselves …
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12. Joyful Resistance: One Dad's Call to Action
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We’ve talked before about voting for your kid, and the rafts of legislation that are directed at taking away rights from trans people and trans kids. Even here in the Pacific Northwest, kids and their families are scared. As of recording on August 15th, 2023, there were 358 active pieces of anti-trans legislation in 49 states. That doesn't include …
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Rethinking Empowerment and Releasing Comparison
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Send me a text! Rethinking empowerment and releasing comparison go hand in hand in a society where empowerment is treated as a commodity and lifestyle is used as a sales tactic. Lifestyle as a sales tactic encourages us to compare how happy we are to how happy someone supposedly living a particular lifestyle appears to be. When empowerment is the c…
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11. From Heartache to Healing: The Power of Self-Acceptance with Randi
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So often when I talk to parents about their children’s decision or request to transition, parents express concern that their child will regret their decision, and that their child’s regret will come back on them as parents. In fact, I’ve worked with a number of parents who have said, “They can do whatever they want when they’re 18, but I’m not goin…
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Send me a text! How to cure comparisonitis starts by understanding the cause and that this isn’t just a “you” problem. It’s something that impacts you, your confidence, your sense of self, and your well-being, so it feels deeply personal. Since it’s internal, comparisonitis feels like a habit of comparing yourself to others in one or multiple areas…
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Insights from Change Making Feminist Founders with Becky Mollenkamp
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Send me a text! Insights from change making feminist founders are an important type of support for other feminist business owners and leaders. We are surrounded by stories of what success is and what you must do to achieve it that perpetuate exploitation of ourselves, of others, and of our planet. These stories are what is normalized but they aren’…
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10. Words to Say When… Keeping Your Power in Difficult Conversations with Prof. Jaime Hamilton
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Transphobia is all around us, and often inside us. As parents, we face it in everyday conversations with colleagues, family members, and friends. Our kids face it in school from peers, teachers, and friends. Over the years, the biggest concern I hear about raising a transgender child isn’t about the medical stuff, it’s fears about the way the world…
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09. Catherine: Living With Love, Not Fear
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Remember that time before you were a parent and you thought you at least had some clue what you were getting into and that you’d be good at it? I know I did. I knew it wasn’t all snuggles and giggles and that it would be a lot of hard work, but caring for others is part of my wiring. Of course, none of us are really prepared for what waits for us i…
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How to Create A Schedule That Works For You
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Send me a text! How to create a schedule that works for you cannot take a one size fits all approach. Most so called “successful people” strategies play on the false idea that we all have the same 24 hours and should, therefore, be able to get the same amount done. These strategies fail to factor in our humanity, discount our lived experiences, and…
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Send me a text! How to cultivate self-love is also how you develop self-confidence, make room for self-care, and show up as your best self. This episode is an updated replay of the season one episode, Relearning Self-Love. Your relationship with yourself is the foundation for your relationship with everyone and everything in your life. Unfortunatel…
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Send me a text! The 7 Ways to Relax this Summer are also the ways we can learn to bring more rest into our lives. We have seven areas that influence our energy and each needs care as we learn to release, relax, and rest. Our society is infused with stories that pull us away from our humanity, which includes devaluing rest. Part of the process of tr…
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How to Navigate Societal Gaslighting and Stay Empowered
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Send me a text! How to Navigate Societal Gaslighting and Stay Empowered is an updated replay of the season one episode “No, You’re Not Crazy.” Most information regarding gaslighting focuses on the psychological experience within individual relationships. However, gaslighting is actually a societal phenomenon with roots in social power dynamics. Tho…
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08. Body Trust: Coming Home to the Body with Dana Sturtevant and Hilary Kinavey
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“How do we know this is about gender and not body image? Doesn’t everyone feel uncomfortable in their body at that age?” I get these questions from parents all the time. And my answer is this: body image is about being dissatisfied with how we look along with unobtainable beauty standards. Body dysphoria is about the cues their body sends to the wo…
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Resilience Through Unexpected Career Shifts with F. John Potter
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Send me a text! Resilience through unexpected career shifts is often something you realize in retrospect. It's natural to feel stress in times of change, especially during unexpected transitions that impact your financial security. It can feel overwhelming when you're walking through them. Once you know that you successfully regained a certain equi…
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07. Neurodiversity and Transness: Honoring Intersectionality in Healing Spaces with Dr. Sam Zoranovich
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Every single one of us has a body. People are complex and our bodies are no different. Some of us feel at home in our bodies, while others of us do not, and it’s not always because of gender. Difficult emotions can play a significant role in this disconnect, as well as trauma and its impact on the body. And having a disability, disease, or other co…
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Being Boss // Episode 359 // 4 Final Lessons of Being Boss
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Welcome to the final episode of the Being Boss podcast where Emily shares what Being Boss has meant to her and why it will forever remain a highlight in her life. She also dives into the 4 final lessons of Being Boss from the importance of living your values to cultivating a supportive community. Plus, Emily shares exciting updates on what's happen…
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06. Mindful Masculinity: Embracing Superheroes and Sensitive Souls with Rocco Kayiatos
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Toxic masculinity is more than a buzzword. Toxic masculinity is part of the gender training we receive starting in childhood, where we learn the rules about how to be a man or a lady. Man up. Boys don’t cry. And it hurts all of us. Toxic masculinity is a narrow and repressive description of manhood and frankly, I’m surprised more men aren’t pissed …
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#359 - 4 Final Lessons of Being Boss
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Welcome to the final episode of the Being Boss podcast where Emily shares what Being Boss has meant to her and why it will forever remain a highlight in her life. She also dives into the 4 final lessons of Being Boss from the importance of living your values to cultivating a supportive community. Plus, Emily shares exciting updates on what's happen…
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3 Things You Need to Create Stability in Times of Uncertainty
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Send me a text! Three things you need to create stability in times of uncertainty are to know yourself, to stay curious, and to build community. We are in a massive period of change and that comes with a great deal of uncertainty. Uncertainty naturally triggers feelings of overwhelm, which make it hard to take action. This is NOT an individual fail…
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Being Boss // Episode 358 // Quitting with Purpose with Erica Courdae and Tasha L. Harrison
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Choosing the path of a creative entrepreneur is an exciting and unpredictable journey filled with twists, turns, and unexpected detours. Owning who you are, knowing what you want, and making it happen demand a willingness to take risks, make tough choices, and stay true to your core values. In this episode, Erica Courdae and Tasha L. Harrison are b…
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05. Gendered Lives: Privilege, Parenting, and Identity with Erica Courdae
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There are so many things about our lives that are gendered. And some of those things are a lot more important and hold more cultural significance than we realize–that is until we have kid who comes out as trans, and then all of that privilege you had and all the mental energy you didn’t have to spend on thinking about all the ways in which the worl…
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#358 - Quitting with Purpose with Erica Courdae and Tasha L. Harrison
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Choosing the path of a creative entrepreneur is an exciting and unpredictable journey filled with twists, turns, and unexpected detours. Owning who you are, knowing what you want, and making it happen demand a willingness to take risks, make tough choices, and stay true to your core values. In this episode, Erica Courdae and Tasha L. Harrison are b…
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04. Fear vs. Curiosity: Being Alive and Trans with Flint, Just Flint Part 2
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Get ready for part two of my conversation with Flint. If you haven’t listened to part one, hit pause and give it a listen, then come back for part two. In this episode, we’re continuing our conversation about creating a safe and supportive space for trans kids, and the trans adults they need in their lives to show them that they will be fine, and t…
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03. Fear vs. Curiosity: Being Alive and Trans with Flint, Just Flint Part 1
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We have all heard and experienced how different school is now from when we were kids. It’s a whole different world. And while I could easily be referring to school policies and the way that kids are taught math - I’m not. I’m referring to the social universe and obstacle course that kids navigate day in and day out. And one of the hardest things ab…
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#357 - The End of the Golden Age of Online Business with Erica Courdae & Tasha L. Harrison
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The ever-shifting landscape of the online business world can make it difficult to navigate your own business success. In this episode, Emily is joined by Erica Courdae and Tasha L. Harrison to discuss the end of the golden age of digital business. They share the shifts occurring in the online business realm from dramatic changes in engagement to th…
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02. Believing in Your Child: Embracing the Journey of Trans Identity
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You never know how people are gonna react to your child's coming out and socially transitioning. I wish there was a clear indicator that I could give you that says, these are the ones who will support you, and these are the ones who are going to get spooked and do really ugly things. If that thing exists, I haven't discovered it yet. I've seen fami…
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#356 - How the Business of Podcasts Has Changed with Kathleen Shannon
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Is podcasting losing its edge? The medium has been touted as the next big thing in digital content and media creation for almost a decade but the industry has seen major evolution in that time. Join Emily and Kathleen, as they share their personal experiences and insights on the transformation of podcasting from the perspective of starting a top-ra…
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Values Aligned Leadership with Alesia Galati
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Send me a text! Values aligned leadership is central to running a values aligned business. Companies of any size that want to go beyond checking boxes must intentionally cultivate leadership based in clear values. A company’s most valuable asset is its people. Centering humanity at all levels of a company supports morale, efficiency, quality of wor…
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01. What Do I Do When My Kid Won't Talk to Me? with Flyn Alexander
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I think we’ve all been in that place with our kids where they are clearly going through something big - something with friends, something with sex, mental health, transness, something that makes your parent heart go “Oh god - I need more information about this so I can help and protect and make sure that nothing bad happens to them.” So you put out…
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Has the end of Being Boss arrived? Join Emily and Kathleen Shannon, OG biz bestie and co-founder of Braid Creative, for a transparent conversation about the journey and evolution of Being Boss. From Emily’s original visions for the business model to the remarkable growth at her 2nd company Almanac Supply Co., you’ll learn the motivation behind the …
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#354 - Doing Business in Hard Times with Kathleen Shannon
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You are not alone if you feel uncertain about the future amidst global economic instability. Finding the confidence to navigate challenging times starts with a few mindset shifts. Join Emily and Kathleen Shannon, co-founder of Braid Creative and the OG business bestie, in this episode as they share their experiences and expertise on how to thrive d…
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Send me a text! “Am I just making excuses?” is something most people wonder at some point when they are not following through on something they say they want to do. From health goals to work goals, the story we’re surrounded by is that of weakness. It’s self-sabotage. You aren’t trying hard enough, so you don’t want it badly enough. It’s lack of ma…
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#353 - When to Take Business Personally and When to Let Go with Kathleen Shannon
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Do you find yourself taking your business and work more personally than you should? In this episode, Emily sits down with Kathleen Shannon, co-founder of Braid Creative and the OG business bestie, to explore this common challenge for creative business owners. They discuss the difference between taking things personally and seriously and provide pra…
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