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Living Your Balanced Life23: Building a Business with Balance with Austin|Fowler’s Steph Fowler Wife, mom and CEO Steph Fowler built a business from a handbag sketch - without any background as a designer! In this episode, Steph shares how she came up with the concept for Austin|Fowler, how the brand got it’s start, what the messy middle looked like for her as a working mom of four with a business on the side, and how she made the slow shift from 9-5 to full-time in her start up. Discussed in this episode: How Stephanie came up with the idea for a manufactured product, despite no background in prod...2022-08-2339 minLiving Your Balanced Life22: Creating Adventure and Purpose with IVY Adventures Co-Owner Sarah LineAdventure, community and do-good projects come together at IVY Adventures. Co-owner Sarah Line joins us to chat about how her company helps companies and individuals become changemakers in the global community while creating incredible memories through travel adventures designed to make a difference. Discussed in this episode: How IVY helps individuals and corporations travel more and create change in the global community How these travel opportunities impact corporate culture How travel can create personal change The experiences that drove Sarah to bridge the gap to build a company that is focused on creating life purpose for o...2022-08-1639 minLiving Your Balanced Life21: Using Passive Income to Build Your Dream with Daniel Felt of Kura HomesDaniel Felt, CEO of Kura Homes, shares his journey to entrepreneurship - from his parent creating a business on accident to his first foray into passive income, to founding Kura Homes with two passive income streams as his safety net. We discuss mindset and attitude, along with being intentional about who you surround yourself with as a business owner, along with you multiple income streams can help you create more financial security as an entrepreneur. Finally, we chat about how you can streamline operations within your business and delegate better to build a stronger business model and create more...2022-06-2836 minLiving Your Balanced Life20: Work-life balance: How Katie Heruth Bought an Existing Business to Build Her Dream Katie Heruth is the owner of Minnesota Parent Publications, a digital-first magazine that she purchased as an existing business in 2021. After spending most of her career in early education, Katie’s direction took a 180-degree turn during the pandemic when things slowed down for her family, when she also realized she wanted to pursue a new passion. In this episode, Katie shares how she made the shift from employee to entrepreneur, how she decided to buy an existing business and what the process looked like. She also shares how the business has evolved since she purchased it, how she is...2022-06-2140 minLiving Your Balanced Life19: Be better, do better: Using purpose to drive your business and your balanced life with Anahita ChampionAnahita Champion is a media producer and communications strategist working with BIPOC entrepreneurs on their communications strategies, storytelling and philanthropic initiatives. She shares how she’s built a business based on community purpose, and how motherhood has changed her perspective on how she builds her business and creates a more balanced life. We discuss how you can start creating a bigger purpose for your business and your life, and how you can build a community of good people around you. Discussed in this episode: How Anahita developed a business plan that she was passionate about after spen...2022-06-1430 minLiving Your Balanced Life18: Working from home with kids home in the summerIf you’re working from home with the kids home - and limited or no childcare - this episode is for you! Ann and Cortney chat through how they’ve made this exact scenario work over the years, both with small children and bigger kids. They also chat about how they are planning to make it work this summer with the kids home with no formal childcare in sight. Discussed in this episode: How to start scaling back for summer and where to look for pockets of fun time How to structure your day/limited childcare if yo...2022-05-3129 minLiving Your Balanced Life17: Money Planning for Business Owners and Aspiring Business Owners with Kristin PrintonMost people have no formal education around finances - but they’re a huge part of your role as a business owner! Financial Planner Kristin Printon joins us to discuss what you need to know financially whether you’re currently an entrepreneur or thinking about taking the leap. We discuss how to understand your income needs and how to financially goal set for your business and your income, as well as how to strategically pay yourself and plan for taxes as an entrepreneur. Discussed in this episode: Kristin’s journey of growing up in a financially insecure household and ho...2022-05-2436 minLiving Your Balanced Life16: Building Trust and Connection within Relationships with Butch Zelinsky2022-05-1728 minLiving Your Balanced Life15: How to adjust your workload so that you can enjoy the summerAnn and Cortney share a candid conversation on how you can slow down or adjust your workload to enjoy the best season of the year - summer! They discuss how they adjusted for summer with the podcast, and also within their respective businesses, while sharing how you can start your own plan for finding more time in your week. In addition, they chat through the things you should NOT stop doing in the summer months and how to communicate with a prospect that you want to start working with them, but not until after Labor Day. Discussed i...2022-05-1020 minLiving Your Balanced Life14: Creating your brand and working in the cracks of mom life with Ashley ElwillPhotographer and mom Ashley Elwill joins us for a special conversation on the balanced - or rather unbalanced - nature of being a mom while running a business. We talk about how Ashley started her business, why balance can be complicated, and what many people don’t plan for before taking the leap to leave their 9-5. We also discuss brand imagery, from how to decide what you need to how to choose a photographer to how to USE those images once you have them. Discussed in this episode: How Ashley got started in photography, and how she turned her pas...2022-05-0333 minLiving Your Balanced Life13: Put time back in your day with systems and tools that streamline your business operations | Operations Guru Liz Broderick shares her best tipsLiz Broderick joins us for the follow up to last week’s conversation to share the tools you can use to optimize your time, streamline operations and your client experience and more. We discuss using SOPs to create efficiency in the tasks you do frequently, the systems and apps you need to streamline your business operations and client experience, and how you can leverage automation to put time back in your day. 2022-04-2633 minLiving Your Balanced Life12: Starting a business across the country: How a mindset shift led Liz Broderick and her husband Todd to leave their corporate jobs, start a business and move across the countryLiz Broderick is a wife, mother and business owner who made the shift from fast-paced engineering career in Houston, Texas to self employment (alongside her husband, Todd!) in Cody, Wyoming. She shares how they made the decision to essentially start over in a completely different state, the steps they took to find success, and the mindset and strategies they’ve used as a husband and wife duo in business together. Discussed in this episode: How Liz and Todd came to the decision to both leave their jobs and move across the country The steps they took to prepare for...2022-04-1933 minLiving Your Balanced Life11: Boundaries and systems to help you thrive We’re recreating (and in some cases, rebuilding) our boundaries to fit our changing lives this year - and you can too! Join Ann and Cortney as they discuss why boundaries are so important to your success as an entrepreneur, how to clearly communicate your boundaries and processes with your clients, the tools that can help make implementing your boundaries seamless, and more! Discussed in this episode: How the pandemic created a shift in boundaries for both of us Why boundaries aren’t stagnant How to clearly communicate your boundaries to your clients - and how to respond if you...2022-04-1231 minLiving Your Balanced Life10: Transitioning to your own business: how mentorship and mindset can make all the difference with Katie Jamieson Katie Jamieson is a passionate entrepreneur who started her first business in 2019. She shares how mentorship and mindset have been the biggest game changers in making the transition from 9-5 to self employment, and how she’s used these tools to launch her second business this year. We chat about ALL the things - you don’t want to miss this episode! Discussed in this episode: How Katie transitioned from the 9-5 to a consulting role How she’s used her Zone of Genius to scale and expand (grab the worksheet below!) Why mentorship has been such a huge part of her j...2022-04-0531 minLiving Your Balanced Life09: Confidence Sells: The Importance of Branding Your Business with Sheena SchrieverIn this episode, our designer Sheena Schriever shares how you can build your confidence with the right branding elements - and how to bring brand consistency across your entire presence. She details what you should invest in as a business owner, and what you might be able to bootstrap with the right tools. In addition, Sheena talks about how she built a business plan that allowed her to leave her 9-5 in the span of six months, how she’s finding clients today, and how she’s finding balance as she juggles a new business and parenthood. Discussed in this...2022-03-2928 minLiving Your Balanced Life08: Success vs. Failure, Finding Your Zone of Genius and MoreExtras from our Conversations with Tiff Hoeft and Dana Hagemann In this episode, we share some of the candid conversations with Tiff and Dana that we didn’t get to share in their full episodes. We chat about it all: what success really looks like (and how failure is part of your success story!), nurturing relationships for the future, and the state of women in the workforce. We talk about some of the recent statistics - how 1 in 4 women left the traditional workforce in 2020, and what people are really looking for in flexible work, along with how yo...2022-03-2221 minLiving Your Balanced Life07: Finding your footing and taking the leap with Dana Hagemann In this episode, special guest Dana Hagemann shares a candid conversation about her unique journey to entrepreneurship - from her first solo corporate retreat in a cabin in the woods, to her #summerofdreams, to how she found work and built a thriving business. Through her passion for asking questions and meeting new people, Dana was led to a career in journalism. In 2021, she started her own business as a PR and digital marketing consultant, where she's exercising more creative freedom, professional growth, and of course, balance in her life. Dana’s thoughts on taking the leap: “My goal was to vol...2022-03-1532 minLiving Your Balanced Life06: Finding boundaries, systems and balance with Tiffany HoeftSpecial Guest Tiffany Hoeft is an entrepreneur, systems guru, mom of four and founder of the Leap Society, a fierce community of entrepreneur mommas. She shares the importance of finding your tribe and how you can focus in on what success looks like for YOU. Tiff knows that time is money, and she has the systems to help save you time and headaches in your business - which she highlights in this episode! Plus, Tiff shares the boundaries that help her create her own version of balance and harmony in life AND business. Get all th...2022-03-0832 minLiving Your Balanced Life05: Where to find freelance and contract work now and in the futureAnn and Cortney discuss what you need to have to start taking on freelance and contract work and how to start finding work. They chat through how that changes as you scale and take on more work, and share their own stories of how business development has changed as they’ve grown their respective companies. We’re passionate about helping people like you find opportunities that provide more balance and more income! In this episode we discuss how you can find opportunities for freelance work, and how you can expand your business development efforts as a business owner. We also creat...2022-03-0135 minLiving Your Balanced Life04: Pricing Your Services Now, and Increasing Prices as You GrowAnn and Cortney chat about how to find a rate range for your services, how to calculate what you need to charge for your services, and how to structure those rates both now and in the future, depending on your services, skills, and market. We’re passionate about helping people like you leave the 9-5 world behind for opportunities that provide more balance and more income! In this episode, we discussed everything pricing - Ann’s favorite topic! After listening to this episode, we encourage you to spend some time researching your industry rates, determining what you’ll charge for ser...2022-02-2223 min
Living Your Balanced Life03: Identifying your services for scalability Ann and Cortney chat about creating (or recreating!) a business model that is repeatable and scalable. They discuss how to identify your services, how to refine your services if you’re already in business, and how to find ways to optimize your workflow to make your business more repeatable and scalable for your future. We’re passionate about helping people like you leave the 9-5 world behind for opportunities that provide more balance and more income! In this episode we talked about the services that will be the most profitable for you, and how to set boundaries around how you se...2022-02-0921 minLiving Your Balanced Life02: What’s your why? Use this to set your goals and your 12 month planAnn and Cortney chat about the importance of finding your why before you start building your business, and how they use this simple concept to goalset, find new clients and move business forward. They also go in depth on leaning on your why to create an exit strategy from your 9-5. We’re passionate about helping people like you leave the 9-5 world behind for opportunities that provide more balance and more income! In this episode we talked about finding our why, and what this might look like for you. After listening to this episode, we encourage you...2022-02-0719 minLiving Your Balanced Life01: How we made the leap from 9-5 to entrepreneurshipAnn Knuttila and Cortney Galster share their story of leaving their 9-5 jobs behind for a more non-traditional work environment. Learn how the Living Your Balanced Life podcast got its roots, how our show can help you create balance between your personal and professional life, and why this is so important for you to consider right now. We’re passionate about helping people like you leave the 9-5 world behind for opportunities that provide more balance and more income! In this episode we talked about defining our own priorities, how we left our 9-5 and our career backgrounds. After listening to...2022-02-0718 min