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Woman Owned AgencyStacey Edelstein: Storytelling and delineating between our brandsAbout our guest Stacey Edelstein:Stacey Edelstein is a community organizer at heart, helping bold causes leverage the creative power of branding, design, and technology to create change. At Raygun, she lead her talented team in developing beautiful brands and digital experiences that help organizations reach their audiences and create impact in their communities. She believes that when you can communicate your vision clearly and confidently, the possibilities for support are endless.Stacey is also an organizer for two regional design festivals — Tijuana Design Week & San Diego Design Week - as well as Creative Mornings Sa...
2023-11-1840 min
Woman Owned AgencyDiane Stogiannes: From Metallurgy to Tax Credits, The Winding PathDiane Stogiannes is the founder of DST Advisory Group. She has had a fascinating journey through steel mills, innovation patents, tax regulations, and Taylor Swift concerts. Join us and listen in to this fun conversation that showcases the great rewards that come with being an entrepreneur.
2023-10-0542 min
Post Status PodcastsThe WP Agency Journey with Sheryle Gillihan of Cause LabsIn this episode, Sheryle Gillian, co-owner and CEO of CauseLabs, shares her journey and the evolution of her purpose-driven web agency with Cory Miller. She discusses how her personal journey led her to prioritize making a difference through her work. Sheryle emphasizes the shift towards sustainable digital stewardship and the role of WordPress in helping businesses adapt and evolve over time. She encourages WordPress professionals to embrace the open-source ethos, attend WordCamps, and use technology as a force for good. Sheryle's story highlights the importance of purpose-driven work and the power of community in the WordPress ecosystem.
2023-05-1744 min
Woman Owned AgencyLeslie Shields Botvidson: Starting a Health Company in the Midst of a PandemicLeslie Shields Botvidson is the proud owner of The Shields Agency, a woman-owned and operated insurance agency specializing in individual, Medicare, and small group benefits. To better serve their clients, they have also recently expanded into the property and casualty markets. The company has thrived by providing clients with high-quality service and treating them with integrity and honesty.After working with several national health insurance companies for six years, Leslie started her own independent agency in November 2019, which has seen tremendous growth in the last three years.In addition to her work at The Shields...
2023-04-0341 min
Woman Owned AgencyAmber Hinds: Creating a More Accessible WebAmber Hinds is the CEO of Equalize Digital, Inc., a Certified B Corp specializing in WordPress accessibility, maker of the Accessibility Checker plugin, and lead organizer of the WordPress Accessibility Meetup and WP Accessibility Day conference.Through her work at Equalize Digital, Amber is striving to create a world where all people have equal access to information and tools on the internet, regardless of ability. Since 2010, she has led teams building websites and web applications for nonprofits, K-12 and higher education institutions, government agencies, and businesses of all sizes. In addition to accessibility, Amber is a recognized...
2023-03-0727 min
Woman Owned AgencyLee Levy: Growing Local Businesses and FriendshipsLee Levy is a Los Angeles-based creative director and founder of Nex Graphics, with a proven track record of helping companies build a strong presence across the World Wide Web. Bringing 25 years of industry experience, she provides graphic design and web solutions identity with a refined aesthetic. She graduated with a BA degree from Florida State University, and began consulting with clients immediately, putting her skills to good use. 25 years later, she collaborated with many companies to improve their brand identity and web presence. With the constant evolution of the industry and the requirements to adapt, she is motivated...
2023-02-2832 min
Woman Owned AgencyMichelle Schulp: Finding the Art in DevelopmentUncovering the strategic and practical side of design helps Michelle solve problems and improve user experience.Michelle Schulp is an independent UX designer and front-end developer in Minneapolis. She employs a strategy-based approach to design and development, collaborating with clients ranging in size from solopreneurs to enterprises. She loves the open-source community, and when she is not pursuing professional, personal, or wellness goals, she enjoys giving back through speaking, writing, and connecting with others.Mention in this episode:Marktime Media (https://marktimemedia.com/)Carrie Dils (https://carriedils.com/)Bourn...
2023-02-2128 min
Woman Owned AgencyTaylor Shanklin: Leading with Kindness and ConvictionTaylor is a TEDx speaker, podcast host + producer, and marketing innovator in the social impact sector. She speaks regularly at global conferences such as AFP ICON and The Nonprofit Technology Conference, and she has helped hundreds of organizations tell their brand story in digital channels.Taylor is the founder and CEO of Barlele, a brand and growth strategy firm that helps businesses and organizations grow through clear storytelling and strategic growth coaching. She also owns Creative Shizzle as an extension of Barlele services.Mentioned in this episode:Barlele (https://www.barlele.com/)
2023-01-3144 min
Woman Owned AgencyMelanie Davidson: Acquiring an Aligned and Established BrandMelanie Davidson became the owner of Scream Agency in 2022. She serves as Screams President & CEO and has a 20-year consumer marketing background that includes customer experience, direct response marketing, digital marketing, and marketing strategy. Melanie has extensive experience in developing digital programs that both enhance the customer experience and drive performance & ROI.Melanie is also an Impact Investor and Political Activist. She is a strong social advocate and impact investor focused on supporting organizations that are dedicated to poverty alleviation, food stability, and economic security through the empowerment of women and investing in leading women entrepreneurs.
2023-01-3040 min
Woman Owned AgencyKim Fuller: Building Things That Can Impact Our Own LifeThanks to a combination of practical insight and boundless creativity, Kim Fuller, CEO and owner of Phil Inc., has earned a reputation for delivering innovative strategies that effectively and efficiently meet the needs of today’s evolving not-for-profit landscape. Her experience working with local, national, and international charities combines over 25 years in marketing and fundraising, with a lifelong passion for volunteering in the community.Award-winning social entrepreneur, international speaker, and author of many articles on leadership and the social sector, she is always looking to learn more and share more.When she is not in th...
2023-01-2737 min
Woman Owned AgencyEXPLICIT - Jenn Richey Nicholas: Building a Business With Your SpouseJenn Richey Nicholas is CEO and Partner at Pixel Parlor. Jenn specializes in branding, pushing the boundaries of traditional print media, and environmental graphics, signage, and wayfinding. She leads the creative vision for the studio, crafts culture, facilitates new business, directs social and environmental impact initiatives, invests deeply into client relationships, fosters strategic partnerships, and inspires community involvement.Clients include Decal, The END Fund, Geneva Global, Harvard Graduate School of Education, IIDA NY, Impact Services, Neon, MNYK, Mt. Airy CDC, Northeastern University CAMD, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, PORT, Springboard Collaborative, Strata Company, University of Pennsylvania, U3 Ad...
2023-01-2644 min
Woman Owned AgencySara Graybill: Leaning in to Her Technical ExpertiseSara Graybill is a self-proclaimed nerd and loves everything related to technology. Her desire to help everyone understand the technical side of their website led her to start Graybill Creative where she helps bridge the gap between developers and designers and make sure everyone is on the same page. Graybill Creative is a WordPress development agency that focuses on providing development and website maintenance services to other agencies.Mentioned in this episode:Graybill Creative (https://graybillcreative.com/)YouTube link: https://youtu.be/sx0pDo4WYAYEpisode Transcript:...
2023-01-2518 min
Woman Owned AgencyHeather Steele: Building a Business That Fit the Life She NeededHeather is the founder and CEO of Blue Steele Solutions. She started her marketing agency in 2010 because she was tired of seeing great people fail just because they couldn’t clearly communicate their value.Heather's team helps clients create websites and content that make it clear exactly what problems they solve for their customers, leading to more leads and more sales for them.Heather is also slightly obsessed with sharing her tricks for habit-tracking, time blocking, and running an agency on a 25-hour/week schedule.Mentioned in this episode:Blue Steele So...
2023-01-2425 min
Woman Owned AgencyRebecca Gill: Savvy SEO Expert and an Alpaca MomRebecca Gill has over twenty years of experience with sales and marketing, with fifteen of those spent practicing and educating others in search engine optimization. She is an SEO consultant and educator providing personalized digital marketing solutions for clients wanting to expand their online presence and who are also willing to be a vested partner in achieving those results.Whether a solo entrepreneur, digital agency, small business, or enterprise corporation, Rebecca offers a direct and honest approach to planning a path to online success with both search engines and the user experience. A serial trainer at heart...
2023-01-2324 min
Woman Owned AgencyMaiya Holliday: Growing a Freelance Gig into a Thriving AgencyMaiya Holliday, CEO and Founder of Mangrove Web Development is a creative leader and collaborator who crafts digital solutions to augment the impact of changemakers. She is a self-taught coder with over a decade of hands-on experience. Maiya aligns folks toward actionable goals that help articulate and communicate their organization’s purpose and impact on the web, with people, planet, purpose, and equity at the core. She has led over 200 website projects for changemakers and purpose-driven organizations.Maiya led Mangrove to become a Certified B Corp in 2016 and has since championed the cause of socially and environmentally co...
2023-01-2028 min
Woman Owned AgencyBarbara O'Reilly: Fundraising or budgeting, which comes first?Barbara O’Reilly is the founder and principal at Windmill Hill Consulting. Whether it was leading record-setting reunion classes, securing tens of millions of dollars from global corporations following some of the most devastating natural disasters around the world, or overseeing a team that grew donor engagement of major individual donors committed to historic preservation, Barbara O’Reilly, CFRE understands that fundraising is much more than just raising money. It’s about enabling donors to realize their philanthropic dreams for issues that are most important to them and to be part of the change they want to see in...
2023-01-1930 min
Woman Owned AgencyLeah Frazier: From lawyer, to model, to media maven Leah Frazier is a 2-Time Emmy Award-Winning and 10-Time ADDY Award-Winningentrepreneur and was recognized as one of Dallas' most successful women for 2015.She is a multi-licensed attorney turned marketing and communications guru, whounapologetically left the practice of law to pursue her entrepreneurial ventures. In2020, Leah was recognized by Dallas Innovates as one of the Future 50 Leaders inDallas-Fort Worth for tech, innovation, and disruption and as a winner of the 2020“Inno on Fire” award from American Inno’s North Texas Inno media outlet, for hers...
2023-01-1829 min
Woman Owned AgencyAnne Stefanyk: Choosing projects that touch our heartsAs Founder and CEO of Kanopi Studios, Anne helps create clarity around project needs and turns client conversations into actionable outcomes. As someone at the intersection of business development, marketing, and technology, Anne provides digital strategy to clients and organizations in the nonprofit, higher education, government, and corporate sectors. She enjoys helping clients identify their problems, translating it all into plain language, and then empowering the Kanopi team to execute stunning website solutions that strengthen brands and help companies succeed.Kanopi was born from Anne’s desire to build strong, sustainable, creative websites and provide for their gr...
2023-01-1731 min
Woman Owned AgencyLindsey Miller: We can't control how people see us, or can we?After spending a decade in politics and almost the same amount of time in the WordPress and WooCommerce ecosystem, Lindsey Miller created Content Journey.Her passion for making a difference in the world led her to create a business built around the success of others. Content Journey combines SEO best practices with purposeful content to increase brand awareness.Her ability to make the complex simple is a breath of fresh air in the world of marketing and communications. She has an extensive working knowledge of audience movements, data-driven strategy towards content creation, and SEO.
2023-01-1631 min
Woman Owned AgencyCorey Kohn: Stumbling into an ESOP and bringing dignity back to workIn this episode, Corey Kohn shares their unique agency structure as an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) and how she accidentally fell into this role that has given her so much joy.As an entrepreneur and business leader, Corey has grown the reputation of Dojo4, a boutique software agency that she co-founded and has led for over a decade, to stand out in the industry for its work building exemplary technology while modeling social and organizational innovation. Nurturing businesses to be the building blocks of a saner, healthier, and more compassionate world is her passion. She is...
2023-01-1340 min
Woman Owned AgencyTiffani Martin: She lost her sight, but not her visionTiffani Martin is a strategist, author, branding extraordinaire, and the founder and CEO of Jancynco and Visiotech. After losing her sight at the age of 28 due to diabetic retinopathy, Tiffani began to realize how limiting society's resources were for those with disabilities. She longed to bridge the gap between technological brands and the community often ostracized in product development—people like her.Tiffani began her career as a digital engagement agent at Square 1 Agency after graduating from the University of North Texas with a bachelor's degree in business entrepreneurship. While at Square 1, she worked with some of th...
2023-01-1234 min
Woman Owned AgencyTara Claeys: A design journey from analog to digitalTara Claeys is the founder and owner of Design TLC.Tara Claeys began her career in advertising and marketing in the early 1990’s in Chicago and Washington, DC before “digital” was a thing. After her first child was born in 1997, Tara supplemented her full-time job as Mom with illustration and stationery design for clients around the world. As technology evolved, Tara discovered website development and transitioned to building custom WordPress websites for local businesses.Founded in 2010, Tara’s agency, Design TLC, specializes in WordPress websites and digital marketing for small schools, enrichment programs, and education-focused nonprofi...
2023-01-1030 min
Woman Owned AgencyLauren Kwedar Cockerell: Drawn to marketing and strategyIn this interview, Lauren Kwedar Cockerell shares more about her Storybrand certification and how this framework leads to better storytelling. She also shares how she has always had a bit of an entrepreneurial mindset, and it seems that her passion for marketing and PR started at a young age.Lauren is President of Kwedar & Co, formerly Kwedar PR, a strategic communications firm in Fort Worth, Texas. She specializes in helping entrepreneurs and non-profit executives grow their organizations through powerful brand messaging, PR and marketing strategies that work, and websites that convert. Lauren is also the Board Chair...
2023-01-1034 min
How I Broke ThatSheryle Gillihan: On Motherhood, Career Transitions and Staying True To Your ValuesSheryle Gillihan was born in the Philippines and lived there until she was six. That is when her Air Force father brought her and her mother to America for a better life.But - that life she was privileged to live in the US didn’t mean she forgot where she was born and the struggle that was her life before she came to America.By listening to our show about this military brat and most benevolent entrepreneur, you will learn about:...
2022-12-2138 min
Seeking SatisfactionLiving Your Values And Scaling Social Good With Sheryle GillihanShow Notes Do you know how when you meet good people, you can just feel in your gut that they’re good people? That’s how I felt when I first met Sheryle Gillihan at CaboPress several years ago. Sheryle is warm and friendly and authentic in every interaction. She brings deep listening, genuine curiosity, and thoughtful […]
2022-09-1340 minSeeking SatisfactionLiving Your Values And Scaling Social Good With Sheryle GillihanShow Notes Do you know how when you meet good people, you can just feel in your gut that they’re good people? That’s how I felt when I first met Sheryle Gillihan at CaboPress several years ago. Sheryle is warm and friendly and authentic in every interaction. She brings deep listening, genuine curiosity, and thoughtful […]
2022-09-1340 min
Eight Principles VoicesSheryle Gillihan, Technology for Positive ImpactMy interview this month is with Sheryle Gillihan.Sheryle joined CauseLabs in 2010 and has grown with the company as a leader, strategist, and cultural ambassador. Growing up with her own poverty story, she has found her purpose in creating social impact for others. She fuses her hope for a better, brighter future with over 15 years of leadership, operations and technical management experience.My conversation with Sheryle explores the weft and weave of technology and ideas.
2022-04-2538 min
Empower Business DFW PodcastGrowing Positive Impact featuring Sheryle GillihanSheryle joined CauseLabs in 2010 and has grown with the company as a leader, strategist, and cultural ambassador. Growing up with her own poverty story, she has found her purpose in creating social impact. She fuses her hope for a better, brighter future with over 15 years of leadership, operations and technical management experience. Ranging from military to corporate to nonprofit sectors, she brings immense, diversified perspective and excellent coordination. Sheryle has served as a Girl Scout leader for 10 years, sits on several advisory boards, and empowers and equips leaders and project managers around the world on the successful rapid problem...
2021-02-0149 min
LMScast268: How to Use a WordPress LMS and Create Positive Impact as A Digital Agency Serving NonprofitsSheryle Gillihan from CauseLabs shares how her company has been helping nonprofits accelerate their mission and impact the lives of others. In this episode, she breaks down some of the work they have been doing putting together a workforce training program for youth in Kenya using LifterLMS and WordPress.
Sheryle shares the idea of human centered design, which is the process of applying ideas in a very similar manner to the scientific method to problems in business, design, and development. Taking this approach has helped the nonprofits they work with greatly.
In agency and freelance work, it is often important...
2020-02-1740 min
Superpowers for Good: Empowering Changemakers for Social Impact via Regulated Investment Crowdfunding from the SuperCrowd.CEO Comes Full Circle Beginning And Ending In Poverty - 570Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin.Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://bit.ly/2yZTdwk.The fleeting memories of her childhood didn’t make sense until her mother told her the story of the poverty they’d experienced when Sheryle Gillihan was just a toddler. Now a CEO serving people experiencing poverty, she says she’s “come full circle.”As the head of Causelabs, a public benefit corporation that provides strategy, design, prototyping and software development services, she is focusing the social enterprise on reachin...
2017-10-1214 min