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Plenty with Kate Northrup71. Increasing Your Revenue Through Community Building with Brooke MarkeviciusHow can women leverage technology and community to build a brighter future? Join me and Brooke Markevicius as we explore the intersection of tech, community, and entrepreneurship.In this episode of the Plenty podcast, I’m excited to welcome Brooke Markevicius, author of The Future Built by Women, to dive into the transformative power of technology and community in business. Brooke shares her journey from the nonprofit sector to tech entrepreneurship, highlighting the importance of women in tech and the impact of community support.We discuss the GEMS framework, the challenges of venture capital, and th...2024-10-2956 minPlenty with Kate Northrup71. Increasing Your Revenue Through Community Building with Brooke MarkeviciusHow can women leverage technology and community to build a brighter future? Join me and Brooke Markevicius as we explore the intersection of tech, community, and entrepreneurship.In this episode of the Plenty podcast, I’m excited to welcome Brooke Markevicius, author of The Future Built by Women, to dive into the transformative power of technology and community in business. Brooke shares her journey from the nonprofit sector to tech entrepreneurship, highlighting the importance of women in tech and the impact of community support.We discuss the GEMS framework, the challenges of venture capital, and th...2024-10-2956 min
Freelance to Freedom: Attract High Income Clients, Create an Expansive Mindset & Overcome Business BurnoutThe Truth About Work-Life Balance as a Startup Founder Woman EntrepreneurWhat happens when you start a freelancing business that’s just you and it turns into something much larger than you thought was possible? And on the way you need to raise money, raise a family and also sell your business?Brooke Markevicius helps answer those questions within this in-depth conversation about how to balance an accelerating business, family and mindset. She is the Founder of startup Allobee, and led the company to a significant acquisition by The Riveter all while being the mom of 2. Th...2024-02-1351 min
On the Record by LeadpagesFreelancing Kickstart: Find Success Working with (or as) a Freelancer (Brooke Markevicius)This episode features the two sides of freelancing—working as a freelancer or working with a freelancer. Our guest is Brooke Markevicius. She’s the founder of Allobee (recently acquired by The Riveter), a freelancer marketplace that serves parents who want to support their families with flexible freelance careers, and the micro small businesses that hire them. Brooke shares the lessons she's learned while creating the Allobee platform. She also discusses how people can start and grow their own freelance businesses and how small business owners can earn the greatest ROI working with the right people...2022-10-1239 min
The Lead Generation from LeadpagesFreelancing Kickstart: Find Success Working with (or as) a Freelancer (Brooke Markevicius)This episode features the two sides of freelancing—working as a freelancer or working with a freelancer. Our guest is Brooke Markevicius. She’s the founder of Allobee (recently acquired by The Riveter), a freelancer marketplace that serves parents who want to support their families with flexible freelance careers, and the micro small businesses that hire them. Brooke shares the lessons she's learned while creating the Allobee platform. She also discusses how people can start and grow their own freelance businesses and how small business owners can earn the greatest ROI working with the right people...2022-10-1239 min
Allobee RadioEp. 78 - Building a Business You Love with Hani AnisIn today’s episode, Brooke speaks with Hani Anis, founder of Anis Collections and the marketing company Kahani Digital. She started her first company in 2017 while she was still in college at the age of 21. She was doing marketing in corporate investment banking and decided to take 6 months off and work on Anis Collections. Fast forward to 2020, when she got a VC job in corporate marketing. She was approached during Covid by her friends in the freelancing spaces. In Sept/Oct of 2020, the world started working again and she had a corporate job, a company and freelance projects. She kn...2022-10-0334 min
The Bull City Summit PodcastThe artificial intelligence-based freelance workforce, with Allobee's Brooke MarkeviciusA conversation with Brooke Markevicius, Founder and CEO of Allobee, a woman-led Durham-based startup that provides innovative support to businesses doing good things in the world, through an artificial intelligence-based freelance workforce platform. Today, Brooke and Parag talk about the origins of Allobee, Brooke's fireside chat at BCS, and the intersection between freelancing and motherhood.Today's episode of The Bull City Summit Podcast is produced by Earfluence and hosted by BCS CEO Parag Bhandari. For sponsorship options, email info@earfluence.com.More on the Bull City Summit2022-09-2829 min
Allobee RadioEp. 77 - Create the Clarity to Build a Successful Business and Achieve Your DreamsIn today’s episode, Brooke speaks with Cassandra Rosa, a business coaching and award winning speaker and author of Now What: Create the Clarity to Achieve Your Dreams. She also hosts the podcast called Clarity Conversations. Cassandra knew she wanted to make a difference in the world from a very young age. She pursued a degree in psychology and in the middle of it, she did volunteer work in Africa and fell in love with it. When she returned from her trip, she felt like she needed to do things the mainstream way but kept having feelings of doing mo...2022-09-2628 min
Allobee RadioEp. 76 - Confidence In Building Your Business with Julie DeLucca CollinsIn today’s episode, Brooke speaks with Founder and CEO of Go Confidently Services, Julie DeLucca-Collins. They dive into Julie’s background. Julie comes from a background of teachers. She went into early childhood education herself and she loved it. Like many educators, she burned out. She had a part time job like a lot of educators do. She was a youth minister at her church and they offered her a full time position. It gave her good on the job training to create events and train volunteers. She was then recruited by Columbia University for grant writing. Throughout her...2022-09-1945 min
Allobee RadioEp. 75 - Tips to Avoid Burnout While Working From Home with Allobee CEO Brooke MarkeviciusListen is as Allobee CEO, Brooke Markevicius, shares an update on Allobee and her journey in entrepreneurship and the life of a founder. As a female business owner, she has found it is really hard to go far without self reflection and an analysis of not just how the business is doing but how you are doing as a business owner. It’s important to assess if you still love what you are doing. Brooke spent time over the summer reflecting on this and determined she loved the company, the team, what they are building, but did she love wh...2022-09-1225 min
WTF! Women Talk FinanceEP 017 - The Wild World of Women in Tech and Investing – a Candid Conversation with Guest, Brooke MarkeviciusOn episode 17 of WTF! Women Talk Finance podcast, we meet Brooke Markevicius – a unicorn of a woman. As a female founder in the tech world, Brooke’s first successful capital raise of half a million dollars and is now raising her first seed fund of $3 million for her company, Allobee. Brooke’s departure from the corporate tech world, to have her child, left her feeling the frustrations of exiting the traditional work world and finding her way in the freelance space. That developed into the creation of Allobee.Allobee is the future of outsourcing – acting as a one...2022-08-0225 min
Startup HacksFuture of OutsourcingBrooke is the Founder & CEO of Allobee, a managed marketplace, a one-stop business solution for small business owners and startups. She is a technical founder that took her tech skills and experience as a freelancer and business owner and merged them into her idea for Allobee. Brooke went to grad school and got a Master of Science degree in computer information systems, which helped her land a job at Postmates and assist their Southeast region launch. When Brooke became a mother, she realized fast-paced big tech and motherhood did not play well together. She recognized the need for a...2022-06-0721 min
The Legalpreneur Podcast160 Allobee Founder and CEO - Brooke MarkeviciusBrooke Markevicius is the founder of Allobee. Allobee is a one stop business solution for the overwhelmed entrepreneur which connects business owners with a fully vetted workforce of women who have left or been forced out of the 9 to 5 grind.In this episode we will cover:Pre seed fundingBuilding a platformStanding out as a female entrepreneur.If you want to join the workforce or hire - go to Al...2022-04-1328 min
Allobee RadioEp. 68 - Finding Joy & Purpose through Freelancing with graphic designer, Karla PámanesKarla is a graphic designer who worked for a cable company for 10 years where she learned if you want something, you have to ask. From there, her family moved and she then worked for an agency and freelanced on the side. This is where she was introduced to Allobee. When the pandemic hit, she lost her job at the agency and decided to go home to Mexico for the summer where she began to focus on her freelance work. She lost her dad last year and wanted to use this opportunity to help support her mom. Her mission is...2021-10-1734 min
Allobee RadioEp. 67 - A Journey of a Freelancer with Allobee Expert Copywriter, Jill MokayaBrooke speaks with Jill Mokaya, an Allobee expert in copywriting. Jill’s background is in education. She taught for 15 years and has experience not only in the classroom but VIP Kid and other remote teaching opportunities. She has a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and a Master’s degree in Art. She has certifications in copywriting courses. Allobee was her first introduction to offer her services to an agency. She had only worked with small business owners and solopreneurs. She was inspired by the level of organization and structure from the beginning. In 2010, Jill felt called to go o...2021-10-1050 min
Soul Cafe PodcastEPISODE 2 WITH SPECIAL GUEST CARRIE NEWCOMEREPISODE 2 NOTES FOR SOUL CAFÉ PODCAST—October 2021Special Guest: Carrie NewcomerAs always the Soul Café Podcast begins with Della Mae singing Rude Awakenings---an awakening is a rousing from sleep or a rousing from inactivity or indifference. We then introduce Carrie Newcomer our guest is has been described by the Boston Globe as a “Praire Mystic”. And Rolling Stone Magazine says, “she asks all the right questions”. Carrie is a singer/songwriter and author that has released 19 albums. We start the conversation with some light stuff like Carrie telling us about her dog and she actually has...2021-10-0150 min
Startup RenegadesCreating Space for Women in the Workforce with Brooke Markevicius, Founder of AllobeeBrooke Markevicius is the Founder & CEO of Allobee, an all-encompassing business solution for small businesses and startups. As a female technical founder she has a unique approach in supporting businesses and believes businesses should be able to sustainably grow on their own terms. Throughout her work, Brooke has been able to utilize her experience in the tech world and her skills in order to build a unique platform to support the 43% of women leaving the workforce when they have kids and other women that are being forced out of the workforce due to the pandemic. Along with t...2021-09-2835 min
Allobee RadioEp. 66 - A Chat With Ferol Vernon on Mission Aligned CompaniesFerol is the COO of Written Word Media and runs a variety of brands to help readers find the next book to read. He works to sell advertising to authors, largely independent authors. They do email, social media and primarily support the authors by giving them access to advertising for readers. Allobee has helped support Ferol by helping them with their new program, Reader Reach. Allobee helped with the marketing and setting up of the campaign and getting working out the kinks.Ferol got his start at a non-profit research lab that built medical simulators. There he...2021-09-2642 min
Allobee RadioEp. 65 - How to Build a Successful Remote Team CultureListen as Brooke shares her experience at creating a remote-first company during a pandemic as well as easy tips at creating a successful team culture overall.The Allobee leadership team is all on the east coast but experts are all over the United States. We do an All Hive meeting at the beginning of the month and I asked our workforce plus our internal team, if they could use one word, how would they describe our work culture here at Allobee. In this remote time, do people feel supported, inspired, welcoming, flexible, safe? I love that supportive...2021-09-2023 min
Allobee RadioEp. 64 - One Dream, One Team: Mission Aligned Companies with Julie Atwood, former CFO at Seventh GenerationIn this episode, I talk with Julie Atwood, longtime consumer packaged goods executive that has come up through the ranks of many different companies and currently works with Hand in Hand soap. I just love the mission of the company and so it was great to be able to help kind of during that transitional growth time for the company. Hand in Hand had been around for 10 years. The founder and his wife, and friends and family employees that were operating the company. And it was quite small for many years, largely a mission. And then it quickly pivoted...2021-09-061h 01
Allobee RadioEp. 62 - Thriving in your Business with ValuesWe are back! It’s been a while friends as I took some time to focus on business, family and remembering the reason why I started this podcast. And why I started it is to share valuable information and tips with you to help you in your personal and business growth.In this episode, I share with you the 12 Allobee ‘Be attitudes’ and how you can emulate these values into your life and business to create a culture that others want to be a part of. I challenge you to really think about what it is you do bel...2021-09-0119 min
Allobee RadioEp. 63 - How to Scale Your Business Sustainably with Founder of Allobee Brooke MarkeviciusIf you've ever struggled with how to scale your business in a sustainable way, without burning out or needing to spend so much cash you're in the right place because today I will be sharing my top 5 tips on how to scale your business sustainably. These come from lessons learned through my last 7 years as an entrepreneur and the 3 years of building Allobee.
The top 5 tips to scale your business sustainably:
Hire smart
Success leaves a trail and clues - look at your competitors and other companies scaling
Empower your team to make decisions
Human then automate
Know your vision...2021-08-3024 min
Allobee RadioEp. 61 -How to Have a Positive Experience with A Virtual Intern with Founder of Allobee with Brooke MarkeviciusIn this episode of the podcast, I chat with you about our new Summer Internship Program. We wanted to support those out there who need internship opportunities to gain experience and to help them with their career growth. I also wanted to give tips to those who are interested in hiring an intern this summer. Here are the bullet point tips, but take a listen to the episode for more details! Tips on how to have a positive experience with virtual intern: 1-Vetting is Essential 2-Cultural Fit for...2021-04-2220 min
Allobee RadioEp. 60- 10 Reasons Why You Need to Be on Clubhouse with Founder and CEO of Allobee Brooke MarkeviciusAre you on Clubhouse yet? If you’re not, you should be! It’s the new place to be and if you jump in now, you won’t regret it as this platform is growing quickly! In this episode, I share with you the 10 reasons why you need to be on Clubhouse! Take a listen to learn more and check out all the information below about how to get more involved with us on Clubhouse! Link to our Clubhouse Guide and to get our list for weekly clubhouse updates: https://allobee.ac-page.com/clubhouse?test=true...2021-03-1230 min
Allobee RadioEp. 58- Work-Life Balance is Dead: How to Live Well Anyway with Flip BrownExcited for you to listen to our first male guest interview! Here is some more info about Flip Brown: Since August of 2000, I’ve worked with well over one hundred businesses and other organizations to help them become more connected, more collaborative, and ultimately more successful. I’m honored to have served my clients who have strengthened their business relationships, deepened their awareness, and held true to their values. In pursuit of providing strong value to my clients I’ve obtained over six hundred hours of professional development training, which is ongoing. ...2021-02-1147 min
Find Your NicheBrooke Markevicius - AllobeeBrooke Markevicius is the founder and CEO of Allobee. Brooke was working at Postmates when she got pregnant with her first child and realized quickly after that Postmates and most companies don't provide enough flexibility for working moms. She decided to pivot and start freelancing when she had the idea for Allobee. Allobee is a unique platform that is designed for small business owners and entrepreneurs that are in need of some business support services such as bookkeeping, web development, social media, and many more services.2021-02-101h 17
Allobee RadioEp. 57- Birth of a Mother with CEO and Founder Brooke MarkeviciusThe podcast is back! Thank you so much for all of you who listen and support the show. In this episode, I wanted to read an expert of writing that I did for my 35th birthday on some reflections I had about motherhood. I also wanted to get you pumped for the episodes coming on the podcast soon. I want to help you gain momentum in your motherhood and in your business. Check us out at allobee.com
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The PurseGlobal crypto market cap at $1tn+, investors shift their money out of gold to bitcoin, why does divorce hit women’s income twice as hard as men and we're tracking female-led, US startup AllobeeWelcome to our #51 weekly newsletter.Every week we curate key content and apply a female-lens so you can stay informed and inspired about money and investing.Stay in the know.Keep on top of global economic, financial and investing news and trends. And read about what this means for you and your money in 2021 during Covid-19 and beyond.If you’re short on time, listen to the audio for a brief overview.“For women who are taking control of their financial future”-Jana HlistovaFrom...2021-01-1001 min
Women Helping Women EntrepreneursCreating Equilibrium Between Family & Work life with Founder of Allobee Brooke MarkeviciusThe is episode of Creating Equilibrium Between Family & Work-life is brought to you by Stand Out Online Member, Brooke Markevicius Founder of Allobee2021-01-0539 min
Allobee RadioEp. 56- Creating Equilibrium Between Family & Work life with Founder of Allobee Brooke MarkeviciusThis is the last episode before the new year and in this episode I wanted to give you a more in depth look into how we try to balance family and work in our home. It’s not perfect, but we sure try our best to do what works for us. I thought I would include what our general routine has looked like this year and how we try to divide the family and work time. You can see it below. Also stick around at the end where I give 5 pieces of advice to help wit...2020-12-2239 min
Allobee RadioEp. 53- Preparing for the End of the Year with Brooke Markevicius, CEO and Founder of AllobeeI love planning. I was always the kid with lots of notebooks (still am) and I always had lists upon lists. I had/have big dreams and am a visionary. I am the one with a million ideas and love helping others with their ideas and bringing them to life. I used to take the last 2 weeks of the year to plan for the following year, but I realized that then I felt rushed for the new year. I have learned I need space and support throughout, so I start planning for the new year in November now. I take...2020-11-1238 min
Allobee RadioEp. 49-A Chat on Career and Motherhood with Stephanie Mehta, Editor in Chief at Fast CompanyIn this episode, I get to chat with Editor-in-Chief of Fast Company, Stephanie Mehta. Stephanie shares her journey as being a business woman and balancing being a mom. She also talks about her magazine and some of the topics they’ve covered. She also talks about how their company is trying to be creative with the new online space and how their yearly summit is still happening! Stephanie Mehta is editor-in-chief of Fast Company, overseeing its print, digital and live journalism. She previously served as a deputy editor at Vanity Fair, where she edited feature sto...2020-10-1543 min
Allobee RadioEp. 48 - Growing a Company During a Pandemic with Brooke Markevicius Founder and CEO of AllobeeWelcome back to the podcast! You may notice that our podcast has had a HUGE facelift! The podcast is now Allobee Radio and our website and business have also changed to Allobee. At the beginning of the episode, I explain why we made the change and how we got the Allobee name. Our business has grown so much during the pandemic and I wanted to give you some advice on how to grow a company, even during this unexpected time. Believing in your mission and your company is the key during this pandemic! Just like Dory said...2020-10-0827 min