Being Boss with Emily + Kathleen
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What does it take to make money doing the work you love? How do you position yourself as an expert? How do you find fulfillment as a creative and wrangle the responsibility of being a business owner? In the Being Boss Archives, welcome to the first 239 episodes of the award-winning, chart-topping, media-touted Being Boss podcast for creatives, business owners, and entrepreneurs. Listen along as co-hosts and business besties Emily Thompson and Kathleen Shannon navigate their paths as creative entrepreneurs in over 5 years of conversations about mindset, boundaries, habits, and routines. Join in on personal conversations and illuminating interviews with both working creatives and industry leaders, including Dr. Brené Brown, Brooke Castillo, Marie Forleo, Melissa Hartwig, Lisa Congdon and more, in an effort to help artists, makers, designers, side-hustlers and more to take control of their work and live life on their own terms. These Archives include episodes from 2015 - mid-2020. To listen to more recent episodes, search for Being Boss wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Feb 24, 2016 • 56min
#60 - Motivation, Inspiration, Discipline & Action
Today’s we're jamming on getting in the boss mindset by looking at the difference between motivation, inspiration, discipline, and action – and practical action steps you can take to get inspired, motivated and disciplined to do the work even if it might be a struggle to get there.---Listen to brand new episodes of Being Boss on the main feed >>---Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclubJoin the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community
Feb 17, 2016 • 1h 37min
#59 - Finding Balance in Business & Life with Meg Keene
Today we’re talking to Meg Keene, who built the empire that is A Practical Wedding. She’s written a best selling book under the same name and just launched A Practical Wedding Planner which is a must read for any of you boss listeners who are getting married. But today – we’re just going to have a real conversation with Meg about motherhood, being a literal boss of employees, and manifesting what you want.---Listen to brand new episodes of Being Boss on the main feed >>---Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclubJoin the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community
Feb 9, 2016 • 1h 22min
#58 - Creating Content with Erica Midkiff
Today's boss guest is our good friend and content coach Erica Midkiff. She's talking with us about finding your voice, why writing is important, making time to create content, how to get past creative blocks, and what to do when you feel like nobody is listening. Erica Midkiff is a content coach who helps creatives listen to and trust themselves so they can share what they know with those who need to hear it most.---Listen to brand new episodes of Being Boss on the main feed >>---Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclubJoin the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community
Feb 2, 2016 • 1h 4min
#57 - I Will Teach You to Be Rich with Ramit Sethi
When we have a guest on our site to talk about how to become rich, we're not talking about how to make a quick buck. Ramit Sethi is the author of the New York Times bestseller, I Will Teach You To Be Rich and writes for over 500,000 monthly readers on his website where he covers psychology, personal finance, careers, and entrepreneurship. He's jamming with us today on what it really means to live a rich life and how to manage your creative ideas to create quality, profitable products and services that can stand the test of time.---Listen to brand new episodes of Being Boss on the main feed >>---Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclubJoin the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community
Jan 26, 2016 • 1h 18min
#56 - Owning Your Creative Expertise with Tara Street
Today we're excited to have Kathleen's sister and business partner for Braid Creative, Tara Street. We're talking all about owning your creative expertise—whether you're a boss on a team or THE boss of your own business—so that you can assure your clients and not have to start over from scratch with each new project. Tara is a master at helping clients find and own their expertise, and she's even sharing a script you can use to help you feel more boss.---Listen to brand new episodes of Being Boss on the main feed >>---Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclubJoin the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community
Jan 19, 2016 • 1h 4min
#55 - Playing Big with Tara Mohr
This week we're welcoming Tara Mohr, an expert on women’s leadership and well-being. Tara helps women play bigger in sharing their voices and bringing forward their ideas in work and in life. Tara's book, Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead, named a best book of the year by Apple’s iBooks (and we highly recommend it too!), shares her model for making the journey from playing small—being held back by fear and self-doubt—to playing big, taking bold action to pursue what you see as your callings. Tara takes a unique approach that blends inner work and practical skills training and she joins us this week to share her knowledge to our bosses on Being Boss.---Listen to brand new episodes of Being Boss on the main feed >>---Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclubJoin the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community
Jan 12, 2016 • 1h 13min
#54 - Managing Clients
Today we're jamming on client relationships for creative entrepreneurs – everything from firing a client from hell to keeping the dream clients well … dreamy. This episode is going to be great for any of you service-based creatives who rely on clients for a paycheck, and for any creative entrepreneurs who are struggling with defining their process, laying out their contracts, and creating expectations.---Listen to brand new episodes of Being Boss on the main feed >>---Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclubJoin the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community
Jan 5, 2016 • 1h 3min
#53 - The Value of Staying Small
Today we’re chatting about the pros and cons of what it means to stay small in your business. Now at the beginning of the New Year we hear so many creatives talk about growing, and expanding, and increasing their social media presence and followers, but at the same time finding more intimacy and a close-knit community in their business and brand. So we're really digging into what it means to stay small vs. what it means to grow your business, and how you can maybe even have the best of both worlds.---Listen to brand new episodes of Being Boss on the main feed >>---Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclubJoin the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community
Dec 29, 2015 • 1h 8min
#52 - New Years Resolutions
Today we’re talking about New Years resolutions, what went well in 2015, what sucked, and what we’re looking forward to accomplishing in 2016. We decided to bring on our boss boyfriends, Paul Jarvis and Jason Zook, to chat with us about this topic!---Listen to brand new episodes of Being Boss on the main feed >>---Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclubJoin the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community
Dec 22, 2015 • 1h 23min
#51 - Getting Witchy with Carolyn Elliott
Carolyn Elliott of Bad Witches Magazine is joining us today to help us indulge our woo woo side. We found Carolyn in our Being Boss Facebook group when she posted a link to an article she wrote on Medium about her bizarre philosophies that helped her go from seriously broke to her first 5-figure month being her own boss. So today Carolyn is talking with us about her philosophy on money and about what it means to be a witch and practice magic.---Listen to brand new episodes of Being Boss on the main feed >>---Listen to more Being Boss shows on our website, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclubJoin the Being Boss Community: beingboss.club/community
