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Meredith Crawford is the founder and editor of the blog One Sheepish Girl. She loves knitting, crochet, photography, travel and so much more. She recently published her first crochet pattern book, Crochet with One Sheepish Girl. It is available for purchase on Amazon.com! In addition to her work with One Sheepish Girl, Meredith is also the communications director at a non-profit in Dallas, TX. In today’s episode Meredith opens up about how she struggles with self esteem, how she started a blog her junior year of college as a creative outlet for knitting, crocheting, and all things yarn. She shares how she used her blog as a way to document her journey to work on her confidence with a series called “blogging for confidence.” She describes the series as “silly challenges” to push her out of her comfort zone -things like wearing red lipstick and going to see a movie alone. We dive right in and talk about what success means/is for Meredith. “I think success for me is more than a list of accomplishments. It’s really understanding who you are, appreciating who you are and then putting that into what ever it is that you do.”   “You are not your resume. You are not your instagram profile.”- @onesheepishgirl   Meredith goes into detail about her journey after graduating college. She was in search of a full-time job but instead found herself with a book deal. While she fully admits the book deal is and was an amazing thing, she didn’t feel successful. She desperately wanted to find a job that would allow her to move out of her parents’ house.  She wanted to feel like she was doing what she was supposed to do, find that job after college and show she had made it and show that she was successful. She did find a job and quickly realized it wasn’t going to bring her to where she wanted to be. “I did all the things I thought were going to make me feel successful or accomplished and it kind of did the opposite. It sort of brought a lot of these insecurities to the surface and just tore me to shreds.”

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Kara is the owner and creator of Kara’s Vineyard Wedding, a handmade boutique that focuses on one-of-a-kind wedding decor such as custom place card holders and Premium DIY supplies. She is also the creator of the Wedding Planning Podcast. After graduating with degree in Mass Communications and English, Kara worked in financial planning, and saw success through the corporate lens of earning promotions & making money. She recognized her passion for entrepreneurship in 2011, & built her handmade business while “on-the-clock”. Two years later, the birth of her daughter was the push she needed to make the leap to self employment, and she hasn’t looked back! Kara treasures the ability to work for herself while providing a second income for her family, AND raising her two children full-time. She also loves spending time with family and friends, drinking wine, & reading US Weekly. In today’s episode Kara shares a definition of success we think so many of our listeners will appreciate and understand. “As long as my family has everything that we need and some of the things that we want I feel successful.” Kara goes into detail about what gave her the nudge to leave her full-time job and take her online shop from a side business to her family’s second income while staying at home with her young children.  She shares the steps she took to feel comfortable and confident about leaving her full-time job including financial financial goals to meet before she walked away from the corporate world! “I became compulsively driven to get this business grown to a point where I could leave that corporate job and have the freedom to be home full time with Stella” Kara also talks about how she had a major shift in her way of thinking.  She was constantly comparing herself to people who were still in the corporate world, or other WAHMs who had a different schedule/situation. She realized she need to stop comparing herself to others and focus on what she was doing. “Success isn’t about material things. It’s about being happy at the end of the day.”

Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for Danielle and I to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. For our summer rebroadcasting series we're sharing episode 66, FOMO, aka fear of missing out! p.s If you would be so kind as to leave us a review on iTunes, we would be forever appreciative.

As part of our summer rebroadcast series we're sharing with you a few extra shots of fun with some of our 2016 guests! Hear never before questions with Jen Carrington, Jess Connolly, & Rach Wheatley. Listen to Jen Carrington's episode here. Jen Carrington is a content coach and creative mentor who helps purpose-driven creatives make things happen in their creative work and life on their own terms, in their own way, and by their own rules. Jen is based in Manchester, UK where she lives with my better half Alex and their two pesky cats, Marcy and Lila. Jen has a degree in social work, but after graduating she discovered her heart belonged in the online world of content strategy and creative coaching. When she’s not working with her game changing clients or behind the scenes on her business you’ll either find her lost in a good book, spending time with the people she love, or planning her next adventure and travels to come. Listen to Jess Connolly's episode here.

Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about comparison. This is part of our summer rebroadcast series. We were looking back at our first episodes and realized there were some really good topics we wanted to share again. p.s. If you would be so kind as to leave us a review on iTunes, we would be forever appreciative.

Kim is the creator and designer behind Daisy Faye Designs. Kim has always had a passion for fashion and anything creative and DFD allows her to bring together these two loves. Kim loves coming up with original ideas and combining unexpected fabrics and colors to create something beautiful. Kim graduated from the University of North Texas with a degree in Marketing and worked in retail management and merchandising after college. Six years ago, Kim took a sewing class and and fell in love - DFD was born. She started selling military aviation appliqués because she couldn't find the perfect gift to give her military friends who were having babies. "Those first customers is really what the business has been built on." In today's episode we chat with Kim about being a mom, wife, and small business owner. How she felt like she was working for nothing in her merchandising job because thanks to the military she was living in a smaller town that didn't have the growth she needed. She tells us how her current definition of success is doing the best she can with everything in her life. She knows that in the future, when her son goes to school full time, she will be able to spend more time focusing on DFD, but until then she is happy to focus on being a mom, wife, and then business owner {in that order}. "Success for me right now is doing the best I can with everything in my life, mom, wife, then business. For me being successful is balancing these things the best I can."

Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about self-doubt. This is part of our summer rebroadcast series. We were looking back at our first episodes and realized there were some really good topics we wanted to share again.

July Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime Dr. Monica Rysavy is an educator, instructional designer, and faculty trainer. She recently became the Director of instructional research and training at Goldey-Beacom College in Delaware. Monica loves to travel, her favorite place to visit is Prague, which is the capital of the Czech Republic and is where her husband, Peter is from. Monica is also a huge Penn State fan. She loved every moment of her time there and continues to work with the department where she completed my graduate assistantship. Success for Monica: I've accomplished something that I've set out to do in a positive and a meaningful way. I feel personally, I am the most successful when I've been able to help someone at the college learn something new and apply it to their circumstances in a positive way. Things we chat about with Monica: teaching for 15 years summer of 2008: defended her dissertation for her first Ph.D while teaching high school Big transition in 2011 realizing she had the wrong Ph.D for what she wanted to do next applying to Penn State as her reach school and then getting in and also getting a free assistantship needing external validation to feel successful and having impostor syndrome walking away from a pension to get her second Ph.D and taking a 60% pay cut stuggled to take ownership of success always focused on the next big thing, that next big thing would bring the success the confidence code for women

July Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com   Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime

July Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime   Vivian Greentree, Ph.D., joined First Data as a Senior Vice President and Head of Military and Veteran Affairs in February 2014. In this role Vivian created First Data Salutes, a company-wide military engagement strategy to provide the military community with access to career opportunities and best-in-class education resources, while offering premier business solutions to veteran-owned businesses. Before joining First Data, Vivian helped to found Blue Star Families, the largest chapter-based military support organization in the country, where she most recently served Director of Research and Policy. While at BSF, Vivian created and oversaw BSF’s groundbreaking Military Family Lifestyle Survey, which examines a broad spectrum of issues affecting modern-day military families. The survey was referenced in Presidential Directive-9 “Strengthening Our Military Families,” the precursor to the Obama Administration’s Joining Forces initiative and continues to be cited in military policy discussions nationally. She is also the creator of the Blue Star Spouse Employment Toolkit, the first of its kind military spouse employment resource, written and tested based on the unique career needs of military spouses. The Spouse Employment Toolkit has since evolved into a suite of military spouse professional development initiatives known as Blue Star Careers, including educational, employment, and mentoring programming and has been adapted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce into an online military spouse resume engine, Career Spark. Before joining BSF, Vivian served as a Supply Corps officer in the Navy, on active duty and in the Reserves. After serving in the Navy, she used her G.I. Bill to attain her Ph.D. in Public Administration and Urban Policy from Old Dominion University, where she earned several awards, including Ph.D. Outstanding Student of the Year, Phi Kappa Phi, The Pindur and the Ted Constant Scholarships, and a University Fellowship. She holds a masters degree from the University of Maryland University College and undergraduate degrees in Journalism and Public and International Affairs from the University of Georgia. Vivian’s research on civic engagement, the military community, and public policy has been published in peer-reviewed journals like Public Administration Review and the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, along with mainstream media outlets. She has appeared as a subject matter expert on panels, advisory boards, conferences, and national media outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, and NPR. And, she is a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University. In 2012, Vivian was named a Daily Point of Light by the Points of Light Institute for recognition of her volunteer work and a "Top 40 Under 40” alumni by the University of Georgia’s Alumni Association. In 2013, she was appointed to the University of Georgia’s Alumni Association Board of Directors and designated as an Ally Spouse by the Military Partners and Families Coalition. A strong supporter of civic engagement, Vivian serves on the selection committee for the prestigious Lincoln Awards and is the Quality of Life Sub-Committee chair for the Virginia Military Advisory Council, a position she was appointed to by Governor Terry McAuliffe in 2014. Vivian is married to a Naval Officer and they have two young boys, ages 9 and 12. Vivian's definition of success: personal success is rooted in knowing each day I've used my skills and my resources to help at least one person and then get to go home to a family where I know we are raising our children to have empathy and sociological imagination. Things we chat about with Vivian Greentree: Success and growth wasn't a straight line Being a realist, believing in the best of humanity Doing a Ph.D program at night while husband was deployed for a year and having 2 kids under 3. opportunities are often wrapped up in a disguise. Helping found a non-profit for military families because there was a need in the military community for a military family group empowering others Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cutty

July Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about our favorite things from the month of June! Danielle's list: The Wild Wander Print Kind Bars Carmax Jen's List: Brookstone Bluetooth speaker another brookstone option and Bose option Daisy Faye Designs Clutch China Rich Girlfriend

June Sponsors: KimArt Designs If you are a mom, expecting mom, or just want a unique and personalized gift for someone you love, KimArt Designs can create a piece of art specialized just for you. Kimber is a hand embroidery artist & designer who creates intricate and one of a kind pieces that you will cherish forever. Her embroidery art is perfect for nurseries, weddings, and housewarming gifts. You can personalize the size, shape & colors to make the perfect gift for yourself or someone you love. To see all of Kimber’s embroidery hoops, or to request a custom piece of art, please visit kimartdesigns.com All orders within the United States ship free and arrive gift wrapped at kimartdesigns.com. Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime Hayley Morgan is a writer, speaker, and entrepreneur who inspires women to create lives of more passion and less fuss. She and her husband started Wildly Co., an ethical children’s clothing line, and she is also the co-founder of the Influence Conference and Network. Hayley lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband and their four sons. She blogs at www.thetinytwig.com and www.hayleyemorgan.com. We don't want to repeat how we felt when his job was dictated by somebody else. It became super important to us to define success on our own terms and then to really protect that definition and really go after that version of success. Not a different version or what ever version looked attractive that week. Things we chat about with Hayley: Busy and pressed season of life. Trying to do business, ministry, and family well.  Feeling over-scheduled.  Currently trying to rest and gather herself. reflecting on summer of 2008: pregnant with second son. Still figuring out being a mom. Felt discontent. was understanding and learning what it felt like to have interests outside of being a mom life/success is always an evolution being an over-analyzer and big thinker feeling pressured to self-sacrifice or be a servant having your inner thoughts and monologue match up with what you are putting out there Barrett Ward of Fashionable and how he inspiring Mike and Hayley Benchmarks in work/business are sometimes life driven and sometimes profit driven Let go of the shoulds 2014, prided herself in not having help, but realized that she and her family needed support, having her kids well taken care of while she gets work done is important! Wildly Co. --> kids capsule wardrobe Spending 6 weeks of summer resting and refueling books Hayley mentions The Nightingale you are a badass

June Sponsors: KimArt Designs If you are a mom, expecting mom, or just want a unique and personalized gift for someone you love, KimArt Designs can create a piece of art specialized just for you. Kimber is a hand embroidery artist & designer who creates intricate and one of a kind pieces that you will cherish forever. Her embroidery art is perfect for nurseries, weddings, and housewarming gifts. You can personalize the size, shape & colors to make the perfect gift for yourself or someone you love. To see all of Kimber’s embroidery hoops, or to request a custom piece of art, please visit kimartdesigns.com All orders within the United States ship free and arrive gift wrapped at kimartdesigns.com. Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about the word busy, and the myth behind thinking busy means being productive. We mention again Tim Ferriss's book, 4-Hour Work Week  

June Sponsors: KimArt Designs If you are a mom, expecting mom, or just want a unique and personalized gift for someone you love, KimArt Designs can create a piece of art specialized just for you. Kimber is a hand embroidery artist & designer who creates intricate and one of a kind pieces that you will cherish forever. Her embroidery art is perfect for nurseries, weddings, and housewarming gifts. You can personalize the size, shape & colors to make the perfect gift for yourself or someone you love. To see all of Kimber’s embroidery hoops, or to request a custom piece of art, please visit kimartdesigns.com All orders within the United States ship free and arrive gift wrapped at kimartdesigns.com. Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime   Megan Burns lives in Minneapolis with her husband, Tom, and their five kids -- Micah, Noah, Stella, Shiloh, & Eliza. She founded She Does Justice in 2012 as an adoption fundraiser and continues to be passionate about empowering women to make a difference in their everyday lives. Megan's thoughts on success: "I recently went through a space where I realized my priorities were all messed up...we fell into the trap/lie that it is ok to sacrifice everything now to hit your goal {financial or business}, what ever your goal is. I had a realization this was completely backwards." Things we chat about with Megan 5 kids, 9 and under never planned to adopt how much life can change in just a few years The Lord makes me bold, nothing to lose and anything to gain having kids young when the rest of their friends were not, having to babies close together 16 months apart thoughts on balance and if it is something we ever find taking ownership of being a mom of a special needs child navigating a special needs child and knowing you have to parent them differently empowering and encouraging women you can make a difference by doing something small consistently small things make a big impact Books Megan mentions Spirit Driven Success Be Successful Wild & Free

June Sponsors: KimArt Designs If you are a mom, expecting mom, or just want a unique and personalized gift for someone you love, KimArt Designs can create a piece of art specialized just for you. Kimber is a hand embroidery artist & designer who creates intricate and one of a kind pieces that you will cherish forever. Her embroidery art is perfect for nurseries, weddings, and housewarming gifts. You can personalize the size, shape & colors to make the perfect gift for yourself or someone you love. To see all of Kimber’s embroidery hoops, or to request a custom piece of art, please visit kimartdesigns.com All orders within the United States ship free and arrive gift wrapped at kimartdesigns.com. Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and sharing business tips. Things we mention: Email reduction Facebook Creating Community Spending money on your business Paying yourself

June Sponsor: KimArt Designs If you are a mom, expecting mom, or just want a unique and personalized gift for someone you love, KimArt Designs can create a piece of art specialized just for you. Kimber is a hand embroidery artist & designer who creates intricate and one of a kind pieces that you will cherish forever. Her embroidery art is perfect for nurseries, weddings, and housewarming gifts. You can personalize the size, shape & colors to make the perfect gift for yourself or someone you love. To see all of Kimber’s embroidery hoops, or to request a custom piece of art, please visit kimartdesigns.com All orders within the United States ship free and arrive gift wrapped at kimartdesigns.com. Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime   Better Life Bags started as Rebecca Smith's hobby.  To beat boredom during the last month's of her first pregnancy, she made herself a diaper bag and posted pictures of it on Facebook.  After hearing feedback on how many people wanted to buy one, she opened an ETSY shop in August of 2009 and decided to give 10% of every bag sale to a low income entrepreneur overseas through microloans.  She named the ETSY shop "Better Life Bags" and sent a picture of the person the loan was going to help with each bag purchase - to show customers how someone's life was being made better as a result of their bag purchase. In 2010, she and her family moved to a low income area of Detroit, Michigan and her eyes were opened to what poverty, unemployment, and blight can do to a city and the people living there. When orders experienced a boom in 2012, she turned to her neighborhood for help.  She hired a woman originally from Yemen, named Nadia, to start sewing bags alongside her.  After a few months of spending time with Nadia and paying her for the work she was doing, Rebecca saw a shift in her attitude and economic status.  Her family was finally able to afford bed frames for their four children and a dining room table.  Better Life Bags was making lives better in Rebecca's own community. Better Life Bag's mission is to hire women who have various barriers to employment to make our custom leather and fabric bags.  They are adopted into our Better Life family and given a chance to succeed in life, family, and friendship. Rebecca's thoughts on success: In the past year I've learned how to extend grace to myself and to celebrate the small wins in a day. things we chat about with Rebecca: 2008 being newly married, not having a care in the world and being a teacher 2009 making her first diaper bag Success varies day to day, sometimes it is all about just getting the kids to school on time learning how to extend grace to herself, being okay with NOT having pinterest worthy parties turning a hobby into a company with a mission and purpose thoughts on being a business owner, "the older I get the less I care if people laugh." hiring women from the community in Detroit, Michigan taking time off to spend quality time with family Books Rebecca mentions The E-myth Anne bogel's podcast, what should i read next

June Sponsors: KimArt Designs If you are a mom, expecting mom, or just want a unique and personalized gift for someone you love, KimArt Designs can create a piece of art specialized just for you. Kimber is a hand embroidery artist & designer who creates intricate and one of a kind pieces that you will cherish forever. Her embroidery art is perfect for nurseries, weddings, and housewarming gifts. You can personalize the size, shape & colors to make the perfect gift for yourself or someone you love. To see all of Kimber’s embroidery hoops, or to request a custom piece of art, please visit kimartdesigns.com All orders within the United States ship free and arrive gift wrapped at kimartdesigns.com. Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about time management. Things we mention: The four-hour work week by Tim Ferriss meet edgar

June Sponsors: KimArt Designs If you are a mom, expecting mom, or just want a unique and personalized gift for someone you love, KimArt Designs can create a piece of art specialized just for you. Kimber is a hand embroidery artist & designer who creates intricate and one of a kind pieces that you will cherish forever. Her embroidery art is perfect for nurseries, weddings, and housewarming gifts. You can personalize the size, shape & colors to make the perfect gift for yourself or someone you love. To see all of Kimber’s embroidery hoops, or to request a custom piece of art, please visit kimartdesigns.com All orders within the United States ship free and arrive gift wrapped at kimartdesigns.com. Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime Rachel Hollis is a CEO, Author, wife, and mother of three sons and two foster daughters. She is the founder of Los Angeles-based event planning firm, Chic Events and the lifestyle website, The Chic Site. In 2009, Inc. Magazine named her as one of the "Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30." She is the author of “The Girls” series including Party Girl, Party Girl’s First Date, Sweet Girl and Smart Girl. In addition, Thomas Dunne Books will publish Rachel’s cookbook entitled Upscale Down Home in September 2016. Upscale Down Home is an irreverent collection of recipes for affordable meals presented so polished you'd never know their "lowbrow" origins. Rachel is also the entertainment contributor for Traditional Home Magazine, and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and various talk shows. Rachel's thoughts on success: I want to celebrate the stepping stones along the way. It feels successful that I am not hard on myself. I'm not beating myself up for the things I didn't achieve. things we chat about with Rachel Hollis: how the chic site came to be walking away from a thriving and profitable event planning business 2008, struggling with postpartum depression, felt like she didn't know how to do anything and wanted to run away. Rachel Zoe Project tv show on bravo helped her get back to feeling good There is real power in being honest, knowing how the phrase "me too" can help other women not feel alone someone else's opinion of you is not your business. Don't get caught up in what others think, do what you want. why should you be embarrassed for trying something? ALWAYS BET ON YOURSELF why Rachel has not yet taken a salary for herself The Power of Habit

June Sponsors: KimArt Designs If you are a mom, expecting mom, or just want a unique and personalized gift for someone you love, KimArt Designs can create a piece of art specialized just for you. Kimber is a hand embroidery artist & designer who creates intricate and one of a kind pieces that you will cherish forever. Her embroidery art is perfect for nurseries, weddings, and housewarming gifts. You can personalize the size, shape & colors to make the perfect gift for yourself or someone you love. To see all of Kimber’s embroidery hoops, or to request a custom piece of art, please visit kimartdesigns.com All orders within the United States ship free and arrive gift wrapped at kimartdesigns.com. Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about our favorite things from the month of May! Danielle's list: Leadpages FedEx Kinko's Casetify Jen's List: Mpix Fashionable Mamuye Leather Tote Bag Jean/Denim Vest

June Sponsors: KimArt Designs If you are a mom, expecting mom, or just want a unique and personalized gift for someone you love, KimArt Designs can create a piece of art specialized just for you. Kimber is a hand embroidery artist & designer who creates intricate and one of a kind pieces that you will cherish forever. Her embroidery art is perfect for nurseries, weddings, and housewarming gifts. You can personalize the size, shape & colors to make the perfect gift for yourself or someone you love. To see all of Kimber’s embroidery hoops, or to request a custom piece of art, please visit kimartdesigns.com All orders within the United States ship free and arrive gift wrapped at kimartdesigns.com. Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime  

Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime  Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about binge worthy tv. If you're in need of something to watch while working, before you go to bed, or maybe for those at home date night's with you man {or woman!} these are for you!

May Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime Laura Yamin is the host a daily lifestyle podcast call Say Yes Podcast. In her spare time, you will find Laura trying something new outside of her comfort zone such as speed dating, learning to speak French and how to knit. Laura's definition of success: "Success is a feeling. A place of being content. I was doing everything on paper that was suppose to be successful, but I felt empty. I felt like there was something more I need to have happen." Things we talk about with Laura: Leaving her family in the Caribbean to go to college in Syracuse, NY. The high achieving lifestyle and having an identity crisis. Realizing entrepreneurship is not for her. Working in a job that most people think is glamorous, but really was just long hours and attention to detail. Running towards success vs. being on a hamster wheel. quitting is not a bad thing. not having a safety net and still jumping. conquering her fear of doing burlesque. Taking ownership of her job search. acknowledge that it is your journey/your decisions. NO. is a complete sentence. Books Laura mentions: The Luckiest Girl Alive Opening Belle

May Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about our plans for summer.

May Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime Kate's Definition of success Finding those things that really set your soul on fire. The things you could do all day, every day. Things we chat about with Kate encouraging women who feel like they aren't good enough growing up feeling different with dwarfism meeting her husband on Facebook! loving college life Finding the things that set your soul on fire. The things you could do all day, every day. comparison makes that inner feeling of success slip away chasing a definition of success that wasn't aligned with herself looked into grad school/doctorate programs because that seemed like the next step that she was supposed to do. Book Kate's recommends: Girl Boss, talks about how important hard, gritty, work is. We mention this post Kate wrote, http://kateandbraun.com/dear-mother-of-the-curious-child-at-target/

May Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about self sabotage.

May Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. shepercolates.com/amazonprime Carrie Grace lives in North Carolina where she helps women grow their online businesses as well as runs the Kindness Box; a monthly subscription box. She believes in the color pink, tossing confetti, and endless Taylor Swift dance parties. Carrie's definition of success: It's about impacting people. Blessing people's lives. It's not so much money driven as it is more people based and how can I impact people's lives for the better. Things we chat about with Carrie: Going from early education in college, to teaching at a high end private school, and then selling hair bows taking a leap of faith, leaving teaching and nanny-ing part time to grow her business impacting people is more important than money How success seemed unattainable when she was comparing herself to the things other people where doing. the more you put yourself out there the less loud fear feels about consulting women to grown their business and how for a while she didn't feel like she was qualified to do this, even thought she was! books Carrie mentions: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Do the Kind Thing Love Does by Bob Goff How she felt like Love Does was her permission slip to be herself

May Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books. Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about things we've spent money on that were a good investment as well as some things that would fall under "stupid" spending.

May Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Sign up for Amazon Prime! Free Two-Day Shipping, unlimited photo storage, plus exclusive access to movies, music and Kindle books.   Amy is a content manager, editor and reporter for Military.com and the editor of Military.com’s SpouseBuzz blog. She is also the owner and author of HumansOutside.com, where she writes about becoming an outdoor person while chronicling her family's journey leaving it all and moving to the final frontier. Amy's definition of success: Success is having the honesty and maturity to know yourself well enough to know what it is you actually want. Not what people want for you. Not what you think other people want you to want, but what you truly want. And then putting the work in to get it. Things we chat about with Amy: 2007- moved from DC to Washington 2009 - husband goes through a hard deployment 2010- get back into journalism having a life bucket list and why she had sky diving on her list, but never really wants to go sky diving making the decision for her husband to leave the Army why they are moving to Alaska why you need to just start working on things not let fear keep you from starting fresh. Take it one day at a time. creativity requires time, space, and air. books Amy mentions: 168 hours & I Know How She Does both by Laura Vanderkam

April Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Lauren Gerig Designs: Lauren takes the guess work out of hiring a designer by offering several comprehensive branding packages developed specifically with creative business owners like you in mind. From logo design to fully customized website, Lauren can help. Etsy sellers, you’re in luck! Lauren is excited to be offering a new Etsy Branding Package, complete with customized graphics designed specifically for Etsy shops! Visit laurengerigdesigns.com to book your project today! Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and discussing 4 things we learned in the last year.  This is a mix of business and personal lessons so we know everyone will love tuning in. 

April Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Lauren Gerig Designs: Lauren takes the guess work out of hiring a designer by offering several comprehensive branding packages developed specifically with creative business owners like you in mind. From logo design to fully customized website, Lauren can help. Etsy sellers, you’re in luck! Lauren is excited to be offering a new Etsy Branding Package, complete with customized graphics designed specifically for Etsy shops! Visit laurengerigdesigns.com to book your project today! Andrea Howe, Orange County food & wellness blogger and Senior Director at Beautycounter, encourages readers to make small changes to their lifestyle by cooking simple meals at home, and swapping out unsafe home and personal care products — always with the motto “progress, not perfection” in mind. Success for Andrea is more about a feeling: "feeling content with where I am, feeling settled, feeling at peace with how I am able to conduct myself. How I am reflecting myself, how I am able to manage my family life, how I am able to take care of my family and take care of myself. " This we chat about with Andrea: how her middle class background shaped who she is how working retail gave  her a strong work ethic working in Fashion for 11 years was a big part of who she was and how she defined herself the struggle of wanting to hold on to her career after kids but be present for her family her focus on blogging when she left her account executive position in the fashion world in 2011 turning 40 and how that has changed her view on what she wants in life not being afraid to change direction why she is hiring a business coach books she mentions: The Girl on the Train / Life ReImagined / Gaining Ground

April Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Lauren Gerig Designs: Lauren takes the guess work out of hiring a designer by offering several comprehensive branding packages developed specifically with creative business owners like you in mind. From logo design to fully customized website, Lauren can help. Etsy sellers, you’re in luck! Lauren is excited to be offering a new Etsy Branding Package, complete with customized graphics designed specifically for Etsy shops! Visit laurengerigdesigns.com to book your project today! Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about not being able to do everything and saying no.

April Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Lauren Gerig Designs: Lauren takes the guess work out of hiring a designer by offering several comprehensive branding packages developed specifically with creative business owners like you in mind. From logo design to fully customized website, Lauren can help. Etsy sellers, you’re in luck! Lauren is excited to be offering a new Etsy Branding Package, complete with customized graphics designed specifically for Etsy shops! Visit laurengerigdesigns.com to book your project today!   Jen Carrington is a content coach and creative mentor who helps purpose-driven creatives make things happen in their creative work and life on their own terms, in their own way, and by their own rules. Jen is based in Manchester, UK where she lives with my better half Alex and their two pesky cats, Marcy and Lila. Jen has a degree in social work, but after graduating she discovered her heart belonged in the online world of content strategy and creative coaching. When she's not working with her game changing clients or behind the scenes on her business you’ll either find her lost in a good book, spending time with the people she love, or planning her next adventure and travels to come. Jen's definition of success: I feel successful if I have a business that is impactful, fulfilling, and sustainable.  I want to feel like my work is meaningful and bigger than just me. Things we chat about with Jen: lifestyle stability is just as important as financial stability being the best version of herself and not talking short cuts limitations are not obstacles needing to be the best version of herself for her coaching clients do the work, because she doesn't want to let her team down approaching her business in a restful way, which she felt like she didn't have permission to do for a while being intentional, not being work shy, and doing the grunt work books jen mentions: The effortless everyday & essentialism

April Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Lauren Gerig Designs: Lauren takes the guess work out of hiring a designer by offering several comprehensive branding packages developed specifically with creative business owners like you in mind. From logo design to fully customized website, Lauren can help. Etsy sellers, you’re in luck! Lauren is excited to be offering a new Etsy Branding Package, complete with customized graphics designed specifically for Etsy shops! Visit laurengerigdesigns.com to book your project today! Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about working with a business partner. We've been asked to share about this topic a lot.  While we just scratch the surface in this episode we think you will understand the value of working with a partner.

To check out everything we mention in today's episode go to shepercolates.com/april April Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Lauren Gerig Designs: Lauren takes the guess work out of hiring a designer by offering several comprehensive branding packages developed specifically with creative business owners like you in mind. From logo design to fully customized website, Lauren can help. Etsy sellers, you’re in luck! Lauren is excited to be offering a new Etsy Branding Package, complete with customized graphics designed specifically for Etsy shops! Visit laurengerigdesigns.com to book your project today!

April Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Lauren Gerig Designs: Lauren takes the guess work out of hiring a designer by offering several comprehensive branding packages developed specifically with creative business owners like you in mind. From logo design to fully customized website, Lauren can help. Etsy sellers, you’re in luck! Lauren is excited to be offering a new Etsy Branding Package, complete with customized graphics designed specifically for Etsy shops! Visit laurengerigdesigns.com to book your project today! Brandi is the knitting hands and photographer behind natural knitwear brand, Purlbknit. She is from Brooklyn and collects yarn like people do books or shoes. When she is not knitting, she is teaching crafty business classes for Etsy. She never dreamed of having a horse, but a llama? Now that's another story. Brandi's definition of success: "Say what you mean and mean what you say...being your true and honest self and being okay with you who you are right now. " Brandi shares how her definition of success has evolved over the years, at first she wanted a lot of followers and money, it has since evolved. We talk about her definition of success, "say what you mean and mean what you say." Brandi talks about being your true and honest self. We talk about being a newbie, and how it is not good when you try to measure yourself against people who are further along. She shares how she turned down a management position at her job and how she gave her two week notice on the spot when they didn't want change her schedule so she could focus on her business. Brandi mentions the book The Discovery of Witches

April Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Lauren Gerig Designs: Lauren takes the guess work out of hiring a designer by offering several comprehensive branding packages developed specifically with creative business owners like you in mind. From logo design to fully customized website, Lauren can help. Etsy sellers, you’re in luck! Lauren is excited to be offering a new Etsy Branding Package, complete with customized graphics designed specifically for Etsy shops! Visit laurengerigdesigns.com to book your project today! Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about Day Two. This comes from Brene Brown's book, Rising Strong.

April Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Lauren Gerig Designs: Lauren takes the guess work out of hiring a designer by offering several comprehensive branding packages developed specifically with creative business owners like you in mind. From logo design to fully customized website, Lauren can help. Etsy sellers, you’re in luck! Lauren is excited to be offering a new Etsy Branding Package, complete with customized graphics designed specifically for Etsy shops! Visit laurengerigdesigns.com to book your project today! Rach Wheatley is a Purpose & Productivity Coach for soulful entrepreneurial women looking to build more intention and meaning into the business they love. Rach is a proud mum and wife who juggles day care drop offs, collecting pretty things and getting sweaty via a range of fun/crazy fitness adventures. She thrives on hearing women’s stories and helping them create a new story for their future that it meaningful, peaceful and happy. Project: Breathe is home to her blog, coaching ad the Intention Setting Method. All of which are designed lovingly to help women to ease their overwhelm, gain clarity around their life and build the future they ache for. Rach’s unique style blends emotional support with practical tools leaving clients feeling empowered to move into a new phase of their lives. Rach's definition of success: Success isn't about what you do for a living, and it isn't about how my life appeared to everybody else. It's about connections and the ability to really see the people that you love. Success is leading a life that is meaningful to me, not what's meaningful to other people. Things we talk about on this episode: Rach worked as a counselor/educator dealing with domestic violence, she realized she didn't like the management side of things Taking a year off to be with her son, realized she wanted to work for her self intention setting method listening to the signs that you are on the right path Rach shares how her marriage went through a rocky place and how she had to come to a lot of realizations about her self in order to save her marriage setting intentions for the day how grit and self-awareness are the characteristics that got her to where she is today  

April Sponsors: Plan Your Gram: Plan Your Gram is a powerful social media tool for visually planning + scheduling your instagram feed. Drag and drop images before you post and schedule the best time to post them. Best of all, no on-going monthly fees, it’s just a one time purchase for the life of your business. Unlike other schedulers that lock you into $10-$50 a month, Plan Your Gram is just $15.99, once. Plan Your Gram is brand new Instagram planning tool, for iOS and Android. Learn more at planyourgram.com Lauren Gerig Designs: Lauren takes the guess work out of hiring a designer by offering several comprehensive branding packages developed specifically with creative business owners like you in mind. From logo design to fully customized website, Lauren can help. Etsy sellers, you’re in luck! Lauren is excited to be offering a new Etsy Branding Package, complete with customized graphics designed specifically for Etsy shops! Visit laurengerigdesigns.com to book your project today! Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and chatting about why the internet sometimes scares us. We talk about things that can happen when we forget there is a world outside the screens we look at all day long.

Today’s episode is sponsored by Katie Williamsen Web & Social Media Consulting. Are you a lady boss who is ready for your website and social media to finally start creating real results for your business? Schedule a web or social media strategy call today! Stop feeling overwhelmed and make effective changes for your business. Learn how to attract your dream audience and turn them into loyal fans. Learn more here: http://kwilliamsen.com/shepercolates Jenipher Lyn is  an illustrator who specializes in whimsical, punny illustrations. She is currently writing & illustrating an encouraging book for girls and women. She strives to save the world, one doodle at a time! Jenipher's definition of success: "ultimately for me, money is part of it but it's not the success term for me - i would rather do something I love and make less money and eat more pasta and peanut butter and jelly than do something that isn't true to myself." Things we chat about with Jenipher: life not being perfect rejection can help make you successful what you do VS what you really want to do how stubbornness, creativity and her unwillingness to fail help her to keep going how she allows herself to spend time on non-work related tasks/projects books Jenipher mentions: Sarah Dessen & Lisa Congdon

Today’s episode is sponsored by Katie Williamsen Web & Social Media Consulting. Are you a lady boss who is ready for your website and social media to finally start creating real results for your business? Schedule a web or social media strategy call today! Stop feeling overwhelmed and make effective changes for your business. Learn how to attract your dream audience and turn them into loyal fans. Learn more here: http://kwilliamsen.com/shepercolates Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about why you need a biz bestie! Why you need a friend or two that you can talk about all things work related. Someone you can go to to get sound advice. Your biz bestie might go by the title of work wife, or work husband. ;) We also share how you can go about finding a biz bestie. p.s. If you would be so kind as to leave us a review on iTunes, we would be forever appreciative.

Today’s episode is sponsored by Katie Williamsen Web & Social Media Consulting. Are you a lady boss who is ready for your website and social media to finally start creating real results for your business? Schedule a web or social media strategy call today! Stop feeling overwhelmed and make effective changes for your business. Learn how to attract your dream audience and turn them into loyal fans. Learn more here: http://kwilliamsen.com/shepercolates Hey friends! We have a fun bonus episode for you! Today we're sharing a few things we are loving as of late.  Below is a list of things we shared as well as links for where to find them. Some of the links are affiliate links, but you pay no more for the product for using them, you just help support She Percolates. Danielle Spring Bot Mandy Ford's Coloring book, Go Your Own Way Stitchin Good's Family Portrait Jen A Chef's Life J.Crew Jacket Michael Kors Glasses p.s. If you would be so kind as to leave us a review on iTunes, we would be forever appreciative. If you are unsure about how leave us a review you can watch this quick tutorial that Danielle put together!

Today’s episode is sponsored by Katie Williamsen Web & Social Media Consulting. Are you a lady boss who is ready for your website and social media to finally start creating real results for your business? Schedule a web or social media strategy call today! Stop feeling overwhelmed and make effective changes for your business. Learn how to attract your dream audience and turn them into loyal fans. Learn more here: http://kwilliamsen.com/shepercolates Dana Batho is a veteran, artist, and cross stitch designer who is passionate about helping others bring out their creative side. She was disabled on military training and medically discharged, and through that experience has strengthened her desire to help others improve and change their lives through creative pursuits. She focuses on cross stitch as it's a very accessible craft, and wants nothing more than to empower others to enjoy "creativity without limitations. Dana's definition of success: "making tiny little daily steps towards doing something productive." Things we chat about with Dana: being in the Royal Canadian Military being able to help others learn how going to the pain clinic taught her how to cope with her injury how she has adapted her life around her new reality why her dog is her best non-financial investment she mentions the books Start with Why and The $100 start up

Today's episode is sponsored by Katie Williamsen Web & Social Media Consulting. Are you a lady boss who is ready for your website and social media to finally start creating real results for your business? Schedule a web or social media strategy call today! Stop feeling overwhelmed and make effective changes for your business. Learn how to attract your dream audience and turn them into loyal fans. Learn more here: http://kwilliamsen.com/shepercolates Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about Taylor Swift! Her recent acceptance speech, why we love her and so much more!

Today's episode is sponsored by Katie Williamsen Web & Social Media Consulting. Are you a lady boss who is ready for your website and social media to finally start creating real results for your business? Schedule a web or social media strategy call today! Stop feeling overwhelmed and make effective changes for your business. Learn how to attract your dream audience and turn them into loyal fans. Learn more here: http://kwilliamsen.com/shepercolates Kimber Casteel is a wife, self-taught embroidery designer, and dual professional, specializing in Human Resources, Acquisitions & Divestitures. She has a passion for creative and sustainable living, cooking, and traveling! Kim's definition of success: If I can pay my bills, put a roof over our heads, and put food on the table, that is enough for me... as long as I am happy, healthy, fed, and my husband is taken care of, then I am happy. That is all I really need. Things we talk about with Kim: Knowing that early on in her life she wanted to own her own business Why you should listen to you parents ;) Starting her etsy shop in 2009 while attending Rutgers and working 35 hours a week in Human Resources Her awkward stage in her business, from hair accessories, to painter, to embroidery designer Love for travel and why she thinks everyone should study abroad Her love for food and sustainable living being starbucks barista Books she mentions: Why Not Me, Big Magic, Plenty and Plenty More

Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about seasonal friendships. Today's episode is sponsored by Katie Williamsen Web & Social Media Consulting. Are you a lady boss who is ready for your website and social media to finally start creating real results for your business? Schedule a web or social media strategy call today! Stop feeling overwhelmed and make effective changes for your business. Learn how to attract your dream audience and turn them into loyal fans. Learn more here: http://kwilliamsen.com/shepercolates

Miggy is a mother, wife, artist, blogger, special needs advocate and lover of all things beautiful and tasty. Her blog, This Little Miggy Stayed Home, chronicles the daily ins and outs of her family, her interests and the occasional DIY. She has three daughters blog-named PSP, Lamp and Zuzu. Lamp was born with a condition called microgastria and limb reduction complex, which basically means she has limb differences on all four limbs. Coincidentally all her daughters were born with extra awesome as well. Miggy features a special needs spotlight on her blog each Friday where she interviews different families with children who have special needs. To date she has interviewed over 130 families. Undoubtedly, this feature has become the heart of her blog. Miggy's definition of success: "Finding happiness and choosing happiness, regardless of your circumstances." Things we chat about on this episode: the secret lies in gratitude when her second daughter was born she feels like she became a writer your circumstances don't define your happiness reminding herself that value does not and will not ever change closing the pity gap with disabilities incredible ability born out of being disabled why going to ALT Summit was scary the power of your thoughts, they determine everything Changing the Face of Beauty The crossroads of should and must Today's episode is sponsored by Katie Williamsen Web & Social Media Consulting. Are you a lady boss who is ready for your website and social media to finally start creating real results for your business? Schedule a web or social media strategy call today! Stop feeling overwhelmed and make effective changes for your business. Learn how to attract your dream audience and turn them into loyal fans. Learn more here: http://kwilliamsen.com/shepercolates

Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for Danielle and me to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about branding for your business. We had some requests on our 2015 listener survey to chat about business branding. Things we mention: -CailtinBacher.com's Bossy Biz Ladies course and her Wham Bam Instagram Course Today's episode is sponsored by Katie Williamsen Web & Social Media Consulting. Are you a lady boss who is ready for your website and social media to finally start creating real results for your business? Schedule a web or social media strategy call today! Stop feeling overwhelmed and make effective changes for your business. Learn how to attract your dream audience and turn them into loyal fans. Learn more here: http://kwilliamsen.com/shepercolates

Laura Roeder is the founder of Edgar, a new social media automation tool designed to prevent updates from going to waste. Since 2009, she’s been teaching entrepreneurs how to harness the power of social media marketing and create their own fame at LKR Social Media. Laura was named one of the top 100 entrepreneurs under 35 in 2011, 2013 and 2014 and spoke at the White House about the value of entrepreneurship. Laura has spoken at numerous influential industry conferences including, BlogWorld, The South by Southwest Interactive Conference, Real Estate Connect, The Social Communications Summit and Blogher, discussing online marketing, social media, and personal branding. Laura has been seen on Fox News, Forbes.com, CNET, The Los Angeles Times, Fast Company, Mashable, Yahoo Finance and many more influential publications and media channels. Laura's definition of success: "My definition of success is living the life you want, everyday. Whether that means the type of work you do, how much you’re working, are you not working, are you happy with the time you spend with your friends and family. That’s what being successful is." Things we talked about: transitioning from corporate Ad agency, to owning her own social media marketing training company, to creating Edgar. When hiring anyone for your business why you need to make a list of every single task you do why being decisive and a risk taker has helped her why she was very deliberate in changing what she doesn't like about her job being in control of you time happens in stages, not over night Today's episode is sponsored by Katie Williamsen Web & Social Media Consulting. Are you a lady boss who is ready for your website and social media to finally start creating real results for your business? Schedule a web or social media strategy call today! Stop feeling overwhelmed and make effective changes for your business. Learn how to attract your dream audience and turn them into loyal fans. Learn more here: http://kwilliamsen.com/shepercolates

Our Friday Coffee Talk episodes are a time for us to chat about anything and everything. We are so happy this community enjoys hearing us talk about things that often get discussed at a coffee shop, the things you tell your girlfriends. Today we are sipping coffee and talking about knowing when to walk away from something. Both Danielle and I share when we knew it was time to walk away from a business opportunity.

Brooke Saxon-Spencer, is the Founder + Editor of Belong Magazine. Introvert, Starbucks addict, M&M fiend, wife to her college sweetheart, mother of three, work-from-homer, midwestern girl at heart living in SoCal, dabbler in all things crafty and pursuer of Christ. As a creative introvert, Brooke began blogging a few years back looking for “her people” and “her place”.  Blogging didn’t bring her instant friends and the cozy comfort of community just by having an existence on the internet. In fact, it made Brooke feel even more lost and alone. Brooke has a desire for people to use the screen in front of them to connect beyond that screen. To discover “their place” and find “their people". This is the soul of Belong Magazine. To create a space to highlight some of the amazing resources--networks, conferences, other bloggers, etc... The world wide web is exactly that - a gigantic, messy mass of roads through which it is incredibly hard to find any destination, especially if you don't know what exactly you're looking for. Belong Magazine hopes to be the map--or at least the navigation system. To create. To connect. To encourage. To inspire. So that you can find a place where you belong. What success means to Brooke: "Being faithful and taking the next step." Things we chat about in this episode: how reading, writing, and reflecting helped spark Belong Magazine how belong magazine came out of Brooke trying to find her place, so she wanted to create a map to help other people find one another why having perseverance pays off. She admits she doesnt always know what she is doing, but she keeps moving forward. her most recently "scary moment" was sending 500 free copies of Belong Magazine to conference. books we mention: Mortal Instruments  and Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson Belong Magazine being in Barnes and Noble locations soon!