Podcast appearances and mentions of tara gentile

In this episode of Being Boss, Emily and Kathleen welcome special guest, Tara Gentile (McMullin). Tara is a business strategist and coach for creative entrepreneurs to help them grow their influence in a way that works toward your unique communication strengths. She's also the author of The Art of Earning, The Art of Growth, and Quiet Power Strategy.Get full show notes for this episode here >>---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

Do you want to make more money but your efforts to generate more haven’t been working (especially during the pandemic)? Are you having a hard time breaking through the earning plateau that you’ve been in for awhile?  In this interview with Tara Gentile you will learn empowering tips and tools to jumpstart your money-making ability. Earning […]

In this episode, I talked with friend and creative Justin Shiels about friendship and staying in touch with people in your world. He shared systems for staying in touch, how to handle conflict with friends, the importance of staying in touch and male friendships, and how we're missing intergenerational relationships in today's society. Tara Gentile's Podcast Profit Power Pursuit episode with Justin Shiels: Building Relationships & Communities to Fuel Your Business Staying in Touch Apps Marco Polo Voxer Article: Guy Shares His Experience That Made Him Realize How Important Platonic Intimacy Between Men Is Links to Justin around the Internet Professional Website Curious Tribe The Vision Workbook Instagram: @justinmadethat Follow Chrystina on Twitter and Instagram @ChrystinaNoel. Sign up for the Things I'm Working on newsletter to stay up on what's happening and to be notified about each new episode. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a 5-star review if you're enjoying the show.

http://clairepells.com/1   “Do exactly what I did and you'll have the same kind of success as me!” It's a painfully common marketing message, but I'm calling BULLSHIT. You can try all the formulas and strategies in the world but in the end, your results will depend on something that can't be taught: who YOU are and how the world perceives and responds to YOU.   Guest Tara Gentile is the creator of the Quiet Power Strategy and she goes deep into how she's not following any of the typical Internet Marketing rules to grow her business, and why she wishes you wouldn't either.   In this episode you'll hear:   -- the tweaks Tara suggests I make to one of my own sales strategies, one I was about to completely give up on -- how much her business brought in in 2014, and the breakdown of all those revenue streams -- the new offerings she's adding to her business to keep serving (and getting paid by) her existing client base, plus the tool she uses to help others figure out new ways to work with people who have already converted -- the non-traditional way that Tara launched - and priced - her now signature Quiet Power Strategy group coaching program the first time out of the gate -- her recent technique for filling a $3500 program with 40 people who were so comfortable with the investment that she had ZERO refunds -- how much it costs her to run each launch -- what her biggest expenses are, both in her business and her personal life (I was VERY surprised by some of these) -- the make-up of Tara's team and what each person's role is -- what it's like when your mom is your project manager -- her strongest lead-generation strategy (that actually gets her paid in addition to moving people through the Know, Like and Trust process) -- how you can go meet up with Tara this summer on her unique tour around the U.S. (Spoiler alert: there's beer involved.)   Don't forget to leave a rating and a review for the show on iTunes if you like what you hear!   Don't want to miss an episode? Click here to subscribe and get them delivered straight to your phone, tablet or computer as soon as they go live.   Thanks for listening!   Mentioned in this episode: Tara Gentile's website The Quiet Power Strategy Tara on Twitter Tara on Facebook Tara on Instagram Business and Beer Summer Tour: details coming soon. (Jump on Tara's list to get notified about dates)

Tara McMullin (formally Tara Gentile) is a podcaster, writer, and small business community leader. With over a decade of experience helping thousands of small business owners grow their businesses, she's on a mission to change the dialogue about what's really working from hype to candid conversation.She's the host of the What Works podcast, a top small business podcast that's been recommended by Forbes and Entrepreneur, as well as the founder of The What Works Network, a community hub for small business owners. She's also a bestselling Money & Life instructor on CreativeLive. Her work has been featured on Fast Company, Inc, Daily Worth, and The Huffington Post.In this conversation we talk about why she shifted from teaching, coaching and providing courses online to a radically different model - a community of learning filled with small business owners from across industries and business models who are ready and willing to get real about what's working–and what's not.We talk about why, for most of us, taking course after course simply doesn't work. There is no one size fits all approach, and instead, we need a combination of tailored solutions, support and ideas, community, resilience and more.We also dive into what drove Tara personally to leave a very successful business model behind and create something radically difference (even if she didn't initially realise just HOW radically different her new direction was!) For me, Tara has always been at the cutting edge of small business thought leadership. She was the first business mentor I hired and her work has personally influenced me a lot over the years.So this conversation was an absolute joy for me and I know you're going to find it fascinating and wickedly useful too. Links Mentioned In This Episode With Tara McMullinThe What Works NetworkThe What Works Podcast Tara's Writing on MediumTara's classes on Creative Live  

Tara McMullin started her entrepreneurship journey as a blogger. While she was building her career as a blogger, she also ventured her journey further into designing websites, creating and teaching online courses and creating a group and individual coaching for small businesses. But her real passion is always about connecting and helping small business owners to have important, honest and transparent conversations about running a business. That’s why Tara created the What Works brand through her paid membership community, mastermind and podcast.This episode is brought to you by my own CFO program, where I help CEOs and entrepreneurs how to grow their business through the power of finance. This program is created for CEOs and entrepreneurs who have 6 figures or 7 figures business but, either they struggle to pay themselves like a true CEO or they treat their business like a credit card for their clients or they simply do not know where all their money go. To find out more about my CFO program, book a call with me christina@christinasjahli.com or sign up for my FREE videos training series.Connect with Tara:Website explorewhatworks.com/whatworksJoin Tara's community explorewhatworks.com/network/Instagram instagram.com/tara_mcmullinLinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/taragentile/Tara McMullin (formerly Tara Gentile) is an entrepreneur, podcast host, and community builder. She is the founder and CEO of What Works, a top small business podcast, as well as a community for small business owners. She has been named one of the top 24 female podcast hosts for business owners on Entrepreneur.The What Works Network is opened for a short period to celebrate the 200th episode of What Works podcast. Make sure you register online explorewhatworks.com/network/ before the door opens on April 23, 2019.

Tara (Gentile) McMullin, author and the founder of the What Works Network, formerly CoCommercial, joins us this week to share how she pivoted her business model to help turn small business owners into tomorrow’s economic powerhouses. Listen and learn: The less common motivation behind registering your trademark Why consulting your ideal customer can help you fine-tune your perfect product How a licensing program can broaden your reach How understanding the difference between an independent contractor and an employee can help make the hiring leap less scary KEY TAKEAWAY: When you “don’t know what you don’t know”, legal can seem intimidating. But sometimes doing your due diligence and tackling something scary like legal can open doors to help you grow your business more effectively. Visit www.awbfirm.com/podcast79 for show notes and to get a free 5 Minute Intellectual Property Audit to learn how you can make more money from the copyrights and trademarks in your business (plus be the first to know when new episodes are live). This podcast is information, not legal advice specific to your situation.

Welcome to episode 51 of The Blogger Genius Podcast. This week my guest is Gina Bianchini, founder and CEO of Mighty Networks, an online platform to help you build your brand in a variety of ways. Gina and I go into detail on how to build a vibrant online community, why Facebook groups are waning,  and why there's real value in getting your fans to interact with each other.   Resources: MiloTree Mighty Networks Teachable Kajabi Patreon CoCommercial The Happiness Project Zoom Crowdcast Catch My Party * May contain affiliate links. If you click and make a purchase, I might receive a small commission at no cost to you.   Transcript: How To Build A Vibrant Online Community with Gina Bianchini Host 0:04 Welcome to the Blogger Genius Podcast brought to you by MiloTree. Here's your host, Jillian Leslie. Jillian Leslie 0:11 Hey everyone, welcome back to the Blogger Genius Podcast. I'm really excited about my guest today. Today, I am interviewing Gina Bianchini. Gina is a legend in Silicon Valley. If there is a list of female founders, she is always on it. She is the CEO of Mighty Networks. Many of you have probably heard of Mighty Networks or are using Mighty Networks. It's a place where you can build your own community. So without further ado, I bring you Gina Bianchini. Gina, welcome to the show. Gina Bianchini 0:48 Thank you for having me. Meeting Gina Bianchini of Mighty Networks Jillian Leslie 0:50 I was thinking about it and I think we met about five years ago. So we both went to the Stanford Business School at different times and there was a conference. You remember this? An entrepreneurship conference, and you were leading a session on product-market fit. Gina Bianchini 1:10 Yes, I do. Jillian Leslie 1:12 And I reached out to you afterwards and said, "Hey, we should get together." And then we met in your offices in downtown Palo Alto. Gina Bianchini 1:19 Yes. Jillian Leslie 1:20 And we sat down and we were talking about our business models and things like that. You were so kind. I remember you being like, "I totally get what you're doing. And any way I can help, I'm in." Then recently, somebody I was talking to mentioned Mighty Networks -- at the time it was called MightyBell, right? Gina Bianchini 1:41 Yes. Jillian Leslie 1:42 And I was thinking about you and I thought, "Oh my God," I wanted to reach out to you, have you as a guest on the podcast. What my audience probably doesn't know is that I think of you as one of the original "girlboss" founders in Silicon Valley. Gina Bianchini 1:59 Which makes me feel so feel old. Jillian Leslie 2:01 I don't mean it to make you feel old. Gina Bianchini 2:04 Okay, okay. I'm just going to, like, embrace it. Jillian Leslie 2:06 Embrace it because you have seen a lot and you have built businesses. Gina Bianchini 2:13 Yes. Jillian Leslie 2:15 So let's start. So can you share then your story and how you became an entrepreneur, how you founded businesses, and where you are today with Mighty Networks. Gina Bianchini 2:25 Sure. And I almost want to start with where I'm at today because I always think that that's sort of the more fun, you know spot, to begin with. What is Mighty Networks and who is it for? So Mighty Networks is a software platform. We sell it as a service, so people pay us money although we do have a free version to build brands and businesses that bring people together. So our passion is how do we enable and unlock for... We think about it as niche entrepreneurs, but it can be anybody from a small business owner to a creator to a lifestyle influencer to... actually, big brands use us as well. The really special secret sauce of a mighty network is that because you have in one place what you're probably using today as a group on a big blue platform... Jillian Leslie 3:25 It shall remain nameless. Gina Bianchini 3:27 Right. An online course on a platform like Teachable or Kajabi, an email list over here, a website over there. All the time you're spending in social media. We actually let you bring those things together. And when you bring those things together, something magical happens, namely, the thing we learned about at Stanford Business School which is called the "network effect," meaning you can create a brand or business that brings people together such that it gets more valuable to everyone with every new member who joins. That is the reason Facebook is as powerful as it is today. That's the reason we're using Skype right now for this podcast. And it's the reason that each and every one of us has the power and potential to take a small business and make it a lot bigger. Because if we bring people together in one place such that your courses, your groups, your website, your content, your events, and your messaging are all in one place under your brand, you are able to create something that gets more valuable with every new member who joins. So I share that as kind of the the opening because everything in my life and career has brought me to this moment in this place where I am absolutely obsessed with the notion of how to enable niche entrepreneurs to bring people together and create something much more valuable as a result. So I grew up in Cupertino down the city, where Apple was founded and is headquartered today. I grew up amongst orchards. My grandparents owned a nursery and I watched how the orchards got taken over with office buildings. But what I learned which was just sort of a function of where I was. My dad was a history teacher. My family was obsessed with thinking about how does social change happen and how have cultures changed. I was always really fascinated by people systems and how we've gone from one culture to another culture. Then being in the heart of Silicon Valley, looking at technology through the impact it has on culture, I feel like everything in my life led me to the moment that social, you know, at the time was called web 2.0 really in the early aughts. But fundamentally, It was about "Oh, I get this." I have been surrounded by technology. I worked in the Goldman Sachs high technology group. I understand technology, I understand engineering, but my passion just happened to be how do you bring people together not as robots but as human beings. Jillian Leslie 6:40 And I remember the first time we talked and we sat down, and you said that to me, so your message is incredibly consistent. Like, this is what gets you going. It's not the things. It's funny because this is stereotypical but there is some truth here, which is women like people, men like things. And so you found a way to use technology for people. Gina Bianchini 7:03 Certainly, I hope so. There's certainly moments when I feel like, "Oh my gosh, am I I working on the right stuff? Is this going to be successful?" We all have those moments of fear, vulnerability, but what I know to be true is whenever I have followed my own curiosity and hit the send button on something that scared me just a little bit, the results have been profound. At times that's kind of all we've got in terms of what drives us and what motivates us. I feel very fortunate that I was born in the right place at the right time to be able to do what I really believe in, which is how do we push out to the edges of the network in a really dorky technical way of saying it. What it really means is how do we push out to beautiful individuals with the ability and curiosity and passion to bring people together and allow them to create network effects. You know, again, create a brand that brings people together without needing to be an engineer or commute from Palo Alto to San Francisco. Or whatever it is. You can be anywhere in the world and as long as you have a passion, a niche that you want to bring together, that the tools and technology exist for you to be able to do that and create something that gets more valuable with every new person that you bring into that tribe, you bring into that niche. Jillian Leslie 8:57 Okay, so let's break it down. My audience is somebody who might be listening to this probably started as, let's say, a food blogger and they loved food, so they started putting their recipes out there and then they started getting visitors. Then they started growing social media networks, social media accounts, and then they started to monetize. And this is very true, which is I think that a lot of online entrepreneurs especially female entrepreneurs kind of start with their passion. Then they figure out over time, "Okay, how do I monetize this? So usually, first, you put up some ads and then you say, "Oh, I can work with brands." Then you say, "I want to create my own products and I want to grow my social media accounts," and they start building that way. So could you talk about how you think about that and what happens? Gina Bianchini 10:00 Absolutely love this question. Jillian Leslie 10:02 Oh, wait, wait, but I just want to say because what happens is the people who you start to piece together these stacks of technology. "Oh, I need to make a course, I go over here." "Oh, I need a Pinterest Scheduler, I go over here." Whatever it is. So we end up with all of these different things that all you hope kind of talk to each other. Gina Bianchini 10:25 Yep. Jillian Leslie 10:26 So talk about then the organic growth of somebody's business and how you could help them. Gina Bianchini 10:32 Yeah. And you forgot the podcast. Jillian Leslie 10:34 Oh, and the podcast! Gina Bianchini 10:35 Yes, you forgot the podcast. You forgot like, "Hey, wait a second. Should I be doing a YouTube channel?" "Oh, gosh, there are no more ads. Should you know, should I launch a Patreon subscription?" So, I love this question so much because it's our world. Jillian Leslie 10:57 Oh wait, and one last thing. My audience, typically, is not super technical. They are much more creative. So I think I told you we created a little like a SaaS business called Milotree. And our intention -- our users are bloggers and people like that don't care about the technology, so we took on the technology. Because my husband's my partner, he's a technologist -- I am not -- but we made it really smart and really easy to use because we said, "Uh-oh, we're not going to give you a lot of options. If there's a good option, we're going to make this choice for you so all you have to do is just install it," and it works. And I feel like philosophically, we are speaking the same language. Gina Bianchini 11:44 Yes. Jillian Leslie 11:45 Okay, so go for it. Gina Bianchini 11:48 Okay. So the first thing is, let's just celebrate for a second that wherever you start, following your passion is awesome. It just is. The hardest step is... and I sort of think about it as the courage to focus. The hardest step is the first one, which is launching that first blog or launching that podcast or launching whatever it is the first thing that you decide to do that expresses your passion in a way that can bring people together. So, yay, like this is awesome. The interesting thing and the part for us that we passionately believe is that it's actually great for all of these different platforms and terrible for the entrepreneur, the business owner, the food blogger in this example, to be trying to use all of these different services at one time. And there's the obvious reason which is it's a heck of a lot of work. You're also paying SaaS fees for each and every one of these services. Or you're giving cuts of things. A cut over here, a cut over here, a cut over here, a cut over here. But the big problem with having 10 different services, you know, because we haven't even talked about like what if you want your people to start meeting up or you're going to go on a live event podcast tour? Jillian Leslie 13:35 You wrote a cookbook and now you're going to go around and talk about it. Gina Bianchini 13:39 So the problem -- and this is something that again, I think it's a really positive thing in terms of the opportunity for Mighty Networks, but it makes me mad as a technologist and as a Silicon Valley person, which is it's absolutely a missed opportunity for every entrepreneur, every food blogger who is not first and foremost thinking about "how am I bringing my people together in one place, so that when I want to launch events, it's one click to turn it on." Jillian Leslie 14:13 Right. Gina Bianchini 14:13 Or when I'm ready to launch my course, I don't have to go use a new service, it's right there. It's already in my mighty network, in this case. Again, I'm biased. But the reason why we've invested millions of dollars in building out this type of functionality is because when you bring together the option of turning on groups, for example, or the option of launching a course or deciding, "Hey, I launched a course, and instead of it didn't work as well as I wanted it to, I just turned it off." But I don't have to move my people anywhere, I don't have to, rebuild in each and every one of these different places, and the most important thing. We talk about Mighty Networks as like the simplest way to build a business online today because your subscriptions are in one place so you don't have to go use Patreon separately. Jillian Leslie 15:07 Will you just explain what Patreon is because I'm not sure my audience knows. What is Patreon? Gina Bianchini 15:11 Sure. Patreon is a service that is actually really, really good. It started because YouTube channels, the sponsorship money for YouTube channels kind of went away. So people who had a large following on YouTube would go to patrons on Patreon who they would essentially ask. Almost like a Kickstarter where it was like $5 to join my exclusive Facebook group, $10 to get exclusive access to this kind of content first if I have a new post coming out, for example. Or you get to hear my podcast before other people hear it in a week. So, it essentially shifted the business model for YouTube creators from sponsorship to subscriptions. Jillian Leslie 16:01 Right, right. And, in fact, there are certain podcasts that I give money to on Patreon because I love the content and they've decided not to do ads. So, I'm willing to pay $5 a month to get access. Gina Bianchini 16:17 So we built that into a Mighty Network alongside with online courses or groups or events or questions and polls. So the idea is you don't have to go to four more different services over time as you want to add various things to your business. It's all an on-off switch directly in your Mighty Network. So at whatever point you decide to use a Mighty Network, you might just use it upfront to replace your website or instead of a Facebook group. But what's awesome is that you never have to go somewhere else when you're ready to grow your business in another way. Jillian Leslie 17:04 Okay. So is like an email service provider? Gina Bianchini 17:08 That is the only thing we don't do, but we have notifications built in. So if you want to create, for example, an article and let everybody know that the article is up, that's all built in. If you want to run a separate weekly newsletter, that's something you go to MailChimp. But here's an awesome thing. Actually different from every other service out there, we give you access to all of your data. Jillian Leslie 17:39 What does that mean? Gina Bianchini 17:40 Meaning that when you create a group on Facebook or even, you know, even on Slack, you don't actually get anybody's email address, location, the topics they're following, anybody that they referred into that group. We give you all of that information. Plus a bunch of analytics that make it so you actually know what people are doing with your content or conversations or we think about it as engagement plans. So what that means in practice is that, one, you're not beholden to a Mighty Network. We want to lock you in because it's awesome, not because you have no alternative to leave. But more importantly, again, when everything's in one place and you can turn on different features when you're ready to expand, it means your people can actually meet each other. You do less work when your community can come together And if your people are actually meeting each other, your followers, your fans, your subscribers, when they're meeting each other, it means that you actually are going to do less work. Jillian Leslie 18:50 What do you mean by that? Gina Bianchini 18:52 They're not relying on you exclusively for all the posts. They're not relying on you to build all the content. They're not relying on you for any reason that they would pay attention to your comeback. So there's a woman. I'll give you a very specific example. There is a woman named Tara McMullin, formerly Tara Gentile. Tara has been a long-time creative, live small business guru. I learn from her every day. She woke up one day and was like, "I am exhausted. I don't want to actually be the person who is front and center and have it be all on my shoulders," which is the reality of life for whether it's us as bloggers, or, I mean, I feel that when I've run a blog or when I have been the face of a company or whatever. So she launched a Mighty Network called CoCommercial, and CoCommercial she describes as a virtual co-working space for online small business owners. She charges a subscription fee for basically it's a one-time annual price of 199 to be a member of CoCommercial. And she's posting in CoCommercial. It doesn't mean that she hasn't in any way, shape or form stopped posting on social media. But what it has meant is that she not only has another revenue stream (subscriptions) but she's freed up her time so that when people are sending her emails, and this happens a lot especially to podcasters... She's got a great podcast as well, where it's like, "Oh, my God, I don't have time to answer all of these fantastic emails coming in from my followers or my subscribers, I wish they could talk to each other." So that has a thriving Mighty Network in CoCommercial. And even the name is not about her, it's about what people are doing together. They are co-creating their businesses together in the context of this network. Jillian Leslie 21:10 So they can ask advice, that kind of thing, help each other, kind of raise each other up. Gina Bianchini 21:16 Exactly. As we all know, anybody who's listening to this podcast, is listening to this podcast, in part, because all of us have tough days. This is a tough path that we have chosen. There are moments of absolute and utter delight when we have that sense of accomplishment of having posted something, or added that video, or made that recipe -- and it's awesome. And then there's the next day where you're like, "Oh, my God, I have to do this all over again today and then I have to do it all over again tomorrow." Jillian Leslie 21:47 Yes, it is. It's like you're Sisyphus pushing the rock up the hill and then it rolls back down. Absolutely. Gina Bianchini 21:54 Choose a model where you're consciously building a business that brings people together, that goes away, and you become much more closely aligned. You're a host of a party which is very different. It's like I always think about it as the difference between when you have to give a speech and dread it for two weeks and work really hard on the speech. Versus hosting a party is really, yeah, you have to set up the room. But for the most part, people are there to meet each other. And you get to engage as much as you want or as little as you want and it doesn't change the fact that people are there interacting and engaging with each other and creating something special that you've still brought together these people. But you've done it in a way that is not exhausting. Jillian Leslie 22:48 Okay, so let's go back to the food blogger who starts with a food blog. Then she says, "Hmm..." I or he, I want to build this into a business into a business with multiple income streams. So they sign up for Mighty Networks. Would they move their blog, first of all, to Mighty Networks because you're a blog platform? Gina Bianchini 23:10 It depends, Okay, so here's the beautiful thing. It's a free country and you get to do it in whatever way that you want. The beautiful thing is, you know, we have tens of thousands of active thriving Mighty Networks and they're all doing it a little bit differently. But here's what I would recommend. If you want to move your blog, great, move your blog. What I think is better is to replace your website. So if you have a website or something that's static, we have sort of a very simple landing page that you can fully customize. So the idea is, replace one of the things that you're doing. Bring together, replace your website. Definitely think about migrating a Facebook group, or if you're using a Slack team, that's really where where a Mighty Network shines. Why you might move your Facebook group to a Mighty Network We have some really specific kind of 123's for how to do it well because we've worked very closely with a number of very large Facebook groups who have moved over to a Mighty Network. Jillian Leslie 24:18 I would say a lot of my audience either has their own Facebook group or participates in Facebook groups daily. Gina Bianchini 24:25 Yeah, absolutely. Two years ago, I would say the kind of overall sentiment was, "Oh, my God, why would I ever leave Facebook? Everything is already on Facebook, I'll miss things like..." You basically would tell group admins they were idiots if they were moving. Fast forward to today... Jillian Leslie 24:49 Yes, how things have changed. Gina Bianchini 24:52 So now, actually, the crazy thing and I'm still sort of surprised by it is that now... I actually talked to a podcaster two weeks ago now -- time is flying -- two weeks ago who said he runs a retirement podcast, and he's like, "I was ready to start a Facebook group. My members, I sent a survey out of what would they want, and they were like, 'Do not do this on a Facebook group. We don't want the distractions. We want to actually be able to meet people in sort of its own space." So instead of feeling like you're in sort of a crowded bar, the idea that you're in sort of a room where people can talk to each other, it's like the back private room. And, then there were other concerns about Facebook that I don't, unfortunately, think are going away anytime soon. Jillian Leslie 25:54 What do you mean by that? You mean in terms of privacy and data and stuff like that? Gina Bianchini 25:59 Just the fact that you really have no predictability around what people are actually going to see. The outcomes are so challenging that where six or seven years ago, people would organically see all of your posts. Jillian Leslie 26:16 I know, yes. Gina Bianchini 26:17 Today, 1 to 3 percent. So the thing I can promise anyone who goes to a Mighty Network is, you know what, you have 100% guarantee people are going to see your stuff. And that's pretty powerful. So basically, we have some nice little tools that make the transition from a Facebook group to a Mighty Network just a little bit easier. Then there are some great best practices that are awesome, that have been done over and over and over again. The momentum in terms of the number of people who are moving their Facebook groups has really accelerated in the last 90 days. What's exciting from my perspective is that people are actually really excited about moving, and people love a Mighty Network. So what is happening is we're seeing larger and larger YouTube channels and bloggers. I mean, one of our earliest adopters of Mighty Networks, actually, is a woman named Gretchen Rubin who I'm sure your audience knows from The Happiness Project, or her latest book called The Four Tendencies. She has a podcast called Happier that's extremely popular. She chose two years ago, almost two and a half years ago now, to move her brand and build a new one on a Mighty Network called Better. The reason was that she wanted people who followed her, especially around The Four Tendencies, which is basically a way to think about how you react to expectations that are placed upon you. She actually launched it a year before she released the book and it went to the bestseller list in part because her most passionate fans were all at the same place. Because they had a deeper connection with the content and obviously with Gretchen but it was really about the content because of the relationships that they had with each other. The book went to number one, and she just successfully launched her second cohort of The Four Tendencies online course which has basically sold out in a week. Jillian Leslie 28:44 Wow. Gina Bianchini 28:44 This is all because she brought people together, she created a network effect. She focused not on "Oh, shoot, I'm going to stay in this sort of fragmented... I'm doing all these different things in all these different places." But rather, she knew that hub of her activity and her brand needed to be about bringing people together because it's highly scalable, meaning more and more people can use it without any more work from Gretchen. Everybody gets more value with every new person who joins. And she has full access to the data and the activities so she can see what people are doing, and get to know her followers and fans even better. So, as she's planning out her next course or her next book, or we're coming up on the 10-year anniversary of The Happiness Project that she can really think about how does she get that to what does she do for her most passionate fans and followers, but then how she harnessed their energy to get it out to more people. Jillian Leslie 29:54 One thing I talk a lot about is that to build a business, you don't have have to have the scale of Amazon. Remember, like, you need 1000 true fans. Gina Bianchini 30:06 Yeah, that's a great piece. Jillian Leslie 30:07 Exactly. And I've talked about it a lot, which is those are the people you want to cultivate. You don't want that person who's saying "Yeah, whatever." You want those people who go "Wow, I am all in." That's how you want to build this sense of community and this interaction where one plus one is five, and also where you can then get them on your side and get them to buy from you. Gina Bianchini 30:39 Yeah, I could not agree with you more. The other thing is that even Amazon, even Facebook, they started narrowly. They started with a niche. And the reality is that while a niche sounds like it's small, it just means that it's narrow. And anyone who's driving in their car, listening to this podcast is capable of building a compelling niche that brings people together by just simply framing these techniques that the best and brightest in Silicon Valley, all these moguls who unfortunately control a lot of our time and inputs -- media and books. But fundamentally, any of us can do it as long as we're not just plugging along, trying to do a little bit over here and a little bit over here and a little bit over here. The reality is that Gretchen Rubin, Tara McMullin, these amazing entrepreneurs and creators know who their customers are, they know who their followers are. And if all you are doing is building followings or building groups on other people's platforms, you will never achieve the level of success that they have because you don't know what your people are doing. Jillian Leslie 32:12 It's a little bit like putting a spike in the ground and saying, "Here's where I live and you can find me here, and you can find my people here." This is like the hub. Gina Bianchini 32:26 Yes, exactly. Jillian Leslie 32:27 Versus, "I'm a little bit over here and a little bit over here and a little bit over here," and you have to reach out. You can reach me but, like, personally, I'm not as good at getting back to people who DM me on Instagram, but if you email me, I will definitely get it. But other people are like, "Oh no, I spent all my time DM-ing on Instagram," for example. Gina Bianchini 32:49 And also for every DM that you have on Instagram -- because here's the problem. Your fans can't really meet each other that well in the comments section of Instagram. Why you don't have to worry about algorithm changes So now imagine instead of you having to answer each and every one of those DMs, your emails, that you can jump into a community that people are answering each other's questions. They're DM-ing with each other. And you get to come in. First of all, your brain just has more time to be creative. Then when you jump in, you can do what make the conversation just take off and participate in as deep or as light of a way that you want. That is the magic and also the sustainability of our businesses. Jillian Leslie 33:38 Right. And we talk about this all the time. So a lot of us have been in this business for a long time and we have seen algorithm changes and just you are beholden, you're a sharecropper if you're building your business on Facebook or Instagram or wherever. My audience flips out when Pinterest changes stuff because Pinterest drives lots of traffic. And it's kind of the nature of it, and the nature is you have to be flexible. But what I like is you're coming and saying "No, no, no..." I mean, you do have to be flexible but you don't have to be at the whim of all of these services. Make your own -- make your own business. Okay, a couple things. One, let's say I want to join one of these communities. Can I go to Mighty Networks and search for Gretchen Rubin's community? Is there some sort of directory? Like with Facebook, I can search for groups. Gina Bianchini 34:34 Yes. So we have a "Find a Mighty Network" function. It is not something we invest heavily in at this point. So we're not going to be your best source of new traffic, but at the same point in time, neither is Squarespace or Shopify, Jillian Leslie 34:57 So you think of yourself as, say, a Shopify store or a Squarespace, meaning people are discovering your network on Mighty Networks. They are learning about it and then using the platform like you might with a Shopify. Gina Bianchini 35:11 Right. Jillian Leslie 35:11 Okay, that makes sense. Gina Bianchini 35:13 Yeah, and part of that is it is very consciously, because we want you to be able to create the Mighty network that you want. Jillian Leslie 35:21 Got it. Gina Bianchini 35:26 When you start to do a lot of discovery as a service that like what you get is some spam and potentially bad actors or other bad things that can necessarily happen. We'll get there as we find ways to do it in ways that are positive, optimistic and awesome. Jillian Leslie 35:45 I like that. Yes. Gina Bianchini 35:47 What we are focused on right now is how do we allow a creator, that food blogger in our example to have everything at their fingertips that they may want to experiment with next on that online course, on that podcast. Jillian Leslie 36:07 Is the backbone of a Mighty Network then like a feed? What does it look like? Gina Bianchini 36:14 Yeah. So we do have an activity feed that is personalized for every member, meaning that they can opt in or out of topics. If they're using a course, that course update will show up in their feed. People they follow will show up in their feed. But the difference is that the host, as we call the people who are it's the equivalent of our group admins, a host or a creator at any point in time can make sure that everyone sees something that they have added. So there are some override features and also some just really nice discovery features we've added as well that that allow for that feed to be augmented with topics, with groups, with events, with courses and other features. Why MiloTree will grow your social media followers on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and YouTube Jillian Leslie 37:06 I wanted to take a minute to talk about MiloTree which is the company that I have built with my husband, David. MiloTree is a group of pop-ups that you install on your site and they help grow your social media followers. So you can have an Instagram pop-up that will say "follow me on Instagram" or a Pinterest pop-up that will say "follow me on Pinterest," or Facebook, or a YouTube pop-up that says "subscribe to my channel," or even an email pop-up that says "join my list". You get all of these pop ups in one MiloTree account. If you head over to MiloTree.com and sign up right now, you'll get your first 30 days free, so you can try it out. And again, it takes your traffic and converts your traffic into followers. To be honest, what better followers could you get than people who've already been on your site who've already liked your content. In today's world, you want engaged followers, MiloTree grows engaged followers. These are people that will interact with your social media channels and will read your email list. So if you're trying to grow your business, it's worth checking it out. So head on over and I invite you to head over to MiloTree.com and sign up today. Now, back to the show. Why Might Networks is good for authors Lots of people write books. So I like that example that you used from Gretchen Rubin. I write a book and I'm going to maybe self-publish it because it's the internet today and I can do that. But I need to get people to discover my book. So instead of, again, creating a Facebook group and trying to be active on Instagram, or Pinterest, or Facebook or whatever, I would go to Mighty Networks and I would start a network. Gina Bianchini 38:59 Yes. Jillian Leslie 39:00 And then I would be directing people to my network. Gina Bianchini 39:04 Yeah. Think about it as a hub. So you're still going to have these folks on Instagram or on an email list or on Facebook or on Twitter or on Pinterest, but you're sending people to one place -- and that one place allows them to meet each other. It allows you to launch new things. So, take a book. If you have a book and it's a nonfiction instructional book... Jillian Leslie 39:37 Right, let's say it's a cookbook. Gina Bianchini 39:38 It's a cookbook. That is a perfect online course. That is a perfect series of events. That is a perfect way to do live Zoom or Crowdcast. The way to think about it is that you can sell more books by having this type of Mighty Network and you can extend the life of the book in all of these other ways. And Gretchen Rubin, if you go to Betterapp.us, it's fantastic. It's public, you can you can see everything kind of in one place. It is a wonderful example for those who have instructional books, or a cookbook or a finance book or anything in between. And you can find more ways to not just promote your book to your most passionate fans and followers but also extend the life of it in all of these other ways. Jillian Leslie 40:41 Got it. Wow. Again, I feel like it's funny because you're right, two years ago, it'd be like you're crazy not to have a Facebook group. And today, it's a little bit like that you want to kind of be able to step away from these large platforms and really build something. I think it's like the power of Shopify, for example, which is you might have started with an Etsy shop. But then you don't own your Etsy shop where all of a sudden with a Shopify store, I can own my e-commerce site and I can do all of this cool stuff, but it's mine. Gina Bianchini 41:22 Right. And by the way, we have a great, great way to integrate Shopify stuff. So, I just digress. Jillian Leslie 41:30 Oh, no, no, please because I want to know all the things that can integrate. So if, in fact, I have multiple cookbooks and I put them in my Shopify store with all of my cooking tools, I can then integrate that into Mighty Networks. Gina Bianchini 41:45 You can add a link in just the upfront navigation. There's a couple of different navigation spots where we let you put custom links. Then we also have this really cool feature which is we call it the "Welcome" and "Featured" sections, meaning that you can actually do like a full article promotion and then basically put it in a place where everybody sees it. It's like first when they come in and then when they come back. So you get to have those spots where you can promote additional products and services. Jillian Leslie 42:19 And if I post in my Mighty Network, can I make it so that everybody gets some sort of notification? Gina Bianchini 42:27 Yes. So we have something called "Notify All" that is only available to the host or creators of the Mighty Network and that then notifies everybody that you just posted something. And it's totally opt in. It doesn't happen automatically. But it's a really nice way of having 100% confidence that everybody is seeing something that you just posted. Jillian Leslie 42:57 Is it the groups that are the most active that you think are the most successful? How active then? Because if you are the host of your own party, you do need to be walking around and making sure everybody's happy and making sure everybody has a drink, let's say. What are some best practices for hosts? Gina Bianchini 43:19 So here's the good news. I was thinking about it this morning, actually, because I was writing something up. We run our own Mighty Networks. While it may just seem like it's good business to make it really easy to manage a Mighty Network and do quick things that actually pack a punch, we do it for very selfish reasons, namely, that we run our own Mighty Networks. We're sitting there and were like "ugh" and without doing this thing and it's a total pain. So some of the ways that we let you automate the drink, making sure everybody has a drink, obviously, we have the normal ways of moderators and other people that you can deputize to be making sure everybody's having a good time. Again, another basic thing is scheduled posts or scheduled features. So you can basically line up a bunch of stuff for the week and let it go and know that it's going to get out without you having to do anything. But there are some very specific features that we have put in place because of our own expertise and experiments that we run that are awesome for getting the conversation started in a very low effort way on the part of hosts. One, we, we have something called an icebreaker question. An icebreaker question basically drives up the number of people who start contributing in their first session. So they join and they're asked a very simple question that a host can set up. We love the question, what do you want to get from a community of peers? Or what do you want to get from people who love the food blogger? And the answers people will contribute in their first session are so rad. So right then and there, more and more of your members are already getting comfortable contributing. And for everybody who contributes, other people see it and can say "hey, welcome." The second feature that we have that makes it really easy to manage a Mighty network, which is we call it "Welcome All". So we were manually welcoming every single person that was coming into a Mighty network that we were running a few years ago. At the end of a Saturday where I had probably welcomed 300 people and I was like, "Oh my god, there's 1000 people that joined in the last 48 hours," we built a little feature that lets that process get automated, namely, I go in and for all the members who have joined since the last time I click this button, they get a welcome email from me. A personalized one from Gina saying, "Hey, welcome to this particular mighty network." And then there's a button that says, you know, say thanks or say hello, and then I can start conversations with people. But everybody gets that warm welcome from me and it's one click. Another feature that we put in place are polls. Polls are one of our favorite features because a quick hot cold poll which is basically a pole that says are you positive or negative on X, Y or Z, or for or against X, Y, or Z. We also have a poll that's what we we call a percentage poll, meaning what percentage of your time are you spending listening to this podcast, or what percentage of your time do you spend cooking each week. Then you can compare your time or resources or whatever to the rest of the membership. So there's just some really fun ways to use polls that for the host, it takes like five minutes to post the question and it takes on a life of its own. Jillian Leslie 47:18 Got it. Gina Bianchini 47:18 So those are just that. Another thing that our hosts do, you know, when they're... Tara McMullin, again, is deep in building a book and doing some amazing half marathons and things like that. So what she does is just sets up a weekly live Zoom call or Crowdcast chat -- I think she uses Crowdcast -- where she can just take questions and people can meet each other. It's once a week and it's live. So it feels like it's almost like just this coming together of everybody at the same time and then it reactivates and reengages people in CoCommercial, her Mighty Network. So what's fun about this is that there's all sorts of different ways to keep it interesting, to keep it fresh, and to really set it up so that it's no more than a few minutes every day or an hour to set up kind of the week ahead. Then when you have online courses, for example, that's certainly more of an investment that your listeners are probably already doing or thinking about doing because people will pay for courses today. But you set that up and people are meeting each other in the context of a course, and you don't have to do a lot. So we continually find ways to make Mighty Networks in the technical term 'self-organizing'. But what it really means is that you as a host get to set it up, you can decorate it. Why Mighty Networks is good at bringing people together Some of the best parties any of us have been to have had a big bag of Costco chips and some root beer. But it's fundamentally about the people that you bring together. And again, it doesn't mean that you can't decorate your Mighty Network to the nines and really make it your own, but it also means that if you bring people together and have some really compelling questions, that can make something wildly successful. Jillian Leslie 49:27 What's interesting, I'm just thinking about it for myself, which is, so I've talked about this on the podcast. I have very siloed businesses. So for example, when we first met, my husband and I started a company called Catch My Party. It still exists, it's still growing, and it's completely separate from MiloTree, which is our SaaS app (software as a service app). Then, out of that, I grew the Blogger Genius Podcast. And I had this SEO expert on and we were talking about this and this has come up a variety of times, which is that if we take Catch My Party out of the equation, the Blogger Genius and MiloTree, they're different but they're kind of related and I have a very difficult time integrating them in a more cohesive whole. And you're getting my, you know, like the wheels are spinning, and I have a Facebook group called the MiloTree Mastermind Group. And again, you and I have real business backgrounds and my goal with the Blogger Genius is to interview people like you, people who have been successful, people who have ideas to share, but also because I want to help and I want to share what I've learned being in the trenches. And I want to share that with my audience. I want to say exactly what you were saying which is some days, it's really hard. Some days, I don't want to get out of bed, and other days, I am so excited to get out of bed. Anyway, so for me in my businesses, I'm thinking "Wow, I am all over the place." I am on Facebook and I am on Pinterest and I am on Instagram -- and it makes my brain explode. Gina Bianchini 51:21 Yep. Jillian Leslie 51:22 So we're gonna have to have a conversation after this. Gina Bianchini 51:25 You know, I don't know that it's our tagline at Mighty Networks but there's probably something along the lines of Mighty Networks to help you make your brain not explode. Jillian Leslie 51:37 Yes, yes. I like that. I think you should should trademark that Gina Bianchini 51:43 I'm going to get on that. Jillian Leslie 51:44 Well, Gina, okay, so if as a female entrepreneur who has been at this and again, we have meant to but just there is something really special I think about having somebody like you on the show who has rolled up your sleeves and really just you've dived in there, dive, whatever it is really like talking the talk, what piece of advice would you have for other entrepreneurs? Gina Bianchini 52:15 It's interesting, I really try to stay away from advice because I think it shuts conversations down as opposed to stories and experiences and ideas that kind of continue the conversation. But here's what I would say. I would share that no one who it looks like they have it all together, that looks like they're wildly successful, that looks like that they're perfect, none of them are. Each and every one of us gets up every morning and has a little bit of terror, a little bit of fear of what if this doesn't work or what if this goes away, Or if I'm walking into some kind of bad news situation today. And what I've learned is, the more that I view what I do as a series of experiments and the opportunity to learn, the happier I am. Jillian Leslie 53:28 I like that. I like that. I really like that. Oh, well. Okay, Gina, how can people reach out to you? How can they learn more about Mighty Networks? Gina Bianchini 53:36 Yes. So first, my email address is what you think it would be. Just Gina@mightynetworks.com. Our website is Mightynetworks. com. It is free to create a Mighty Network. We have also tons of resources, and they're only going to get more and more, fun and deep in the new year related to not just how to get the most from a Mighty Network, but really like how to grow your brand and how to grow your business as you start to really take your niche, take that food blog, take that unique category that you are building and expand it into a podcast, into a series of events, into a VIP subscription, into an online course. You don't have to do any of these things all at one time or juggle things that are more than what you want to juggle. But there is something really powerful of just experimenting and just trying things. I tend to post on LinkedIn occasionally. It's probably where I do the most when I write something. One of my goals for 2019 is to get a little bit more comfortable with putting a video on my face and talking, I'm not there yet. Like, I look at myself and I'm like, "Oh, I should really, really start to actually want to wear makeup," which I don't. So hopefully, I will do more of that in the new year. But for the most part, you know, send me an email, join Mighty Networks. We're friendly, Jillian Leslie 55:25 Awesome, awesome. Well, Gina, thank you so much for being on the show. You have given me so much to think about, especially as I try to wrap my arms around my own business, and I'm sure for all of you. I like what you said, which is to experiment. You know, it's funny, we met at that session. You led on product market fit, and what I have learned over the years is you will never know if you have product market fit unless you are experimenting like crazy. That's the only way to find it. Gina Bianchini 56:00 And that is something I relearned every few years. Jillian Leslie 56:04 Me too, me to. Gina Bianchini 56:07 And so this notion that anybody knows... that anybody is doing it really well, it's just they're better at busting through the fear. Jillian Leslie 56:17 Yes, I love it. I love it. Well, thank you so much for being on the show. Gina Bianchini 56:21 It's my pleasure. Have a great rest of your day. Jillian Leslie 56:24 Oh, you too. I hope you liked my interview with Gina and I invite you to head to milotree.com and start growing your business faster. If you're trying to grow your social media followers and your email list, Milotree will do it on steroids. It will grow your followers 24/7 and your email list, and it does it while you sleep. Watch your followers on Instagram or Pinterest or Facebook or YouTube or your email list grow faster! Sign up for MiloTree now and get your first 30 DAYS FREE!

How can building a community help your business grow? What's the best way to serve a community and make money at the same time? How do you attract the right members and ensure that they stick around and engage with other members? What platform should you be using for your community? These are all good questions. When it came to identifying someone qualified to share some real insights into all things community-related, there was one individual that immediately came to mind - Tara McMullin (formerly Tara Gentile). In this candid conversation with Tara we dive into her background, the unconventional path that led to her discovering her purpose-led business (and recently pivoting away from services and online training towards community building as her business model). Whether you're wanting to build your own community, or find the right community to help you accelerate your business and personal growth, in this interview Tara shares some key lessons (and mistakes) all business owners need to pay attention to. Tara McMullin (formerly Tara Gentile) is on a mission to turn today's small business owners into tomorrow's economic powerhouses. She's the founder of CoCommercial, a platform for helping small business owners work together to overcome daily challenges, solve big problems, and achieve even bigger goals. She's also the host of What Works, a podcast that takes you behind the scenes of successful small businesses and shows you what's working in marketing, operations, time management, product development, and more. Entrepreneur named it one of 24 top women-hosted podcasts for business owners. Listen in now. Show notes can be found at www.foundersconnect.co/podcast

How can building a community help your business grow? What's the best way to serve a community and make money at the same time? How do you attract the right members and ensure that they stick around and engage with other members? What platform should you be using for your community? These are all good questions. When it came to identifying someone qualified to share some real insights into all things community-related, there was one individual that immediately came to mind - Tara McMullin (formerly Tara Gentile). In this candid conversation with Tara we dive into her background, the unconventional path that led to her discovering her purpose-led business (and recently pivoting away from services and online training towards community building as her business model). Whether you're wanting to build your own community, or find the right community to help you accelerate your business and personal growth, in this interview Tara shares some key lessons (and mistakes) all business owners need to pay attention to. Tara McMullin (formerly Tara Gentile) is on a mission to turn today's small business owners into tomorrow's economic powerhouses. She's the founder of CoCommercial, a platform for helping small business owners work together to overcome daily challenges, solve big problems, and achieve even bigger goals. She's also the host of What Works, a podcast that takes you behind the scenes of successful small businesses and shows you what's working in marketing, operations, time management, product development, and more. Entrepreneur named it one of 24 top women-hosted podcasts for business owners. Listen in now. Show notes can be found at www.foundersconnect.co/podcast

Do you feel like you didn’t get anything done today?   Do you score yourself against your to-do list and then mentally beat the crap out of yourself when you don’t get it ALL done?   So many parents are plagued with self-doubt. Where does our self-doubt come from? Do you keep close tabs on yourself? The way you “score” yourself on GTD (getting-things-done) can definitely influence how you feel about yourself. What if… you’re wrong? Ugh… this is tough, guys! Can you really be TOP DOG in every area of your life? NOPE, you can’t. AND you sure as heck shouldn't beat yourself up about that. We want to offer you a BIG-A$$ Permission Slip to “phone it in” sometimes to give yourself a break (and allow your kids to SEE YOU give yourself a break, too). In this episode of ‘I Am The Worst Parent Ever’ podcast, Robert encourages Nicole and the listeners to use HYPOTHESES instead of GOALS (h/t Tara Gentile). That way you can focus on daily work and not results. Nicole admits that she likes the idea of having a GOAL (and using it to impress others). For her and others like her, not having a goal can make us anxious. But, guess what? Anxiety can actually BE MOTIVATING. Choose to push through the anxiety to break out of its debilitating nature and pull from its catalytic nature. Nicole and Robert also discuss Seth Godin's suggestion to "start before you are ready," which is SO scary (until you try it!) BUT it has worked for Nicole and Robert in starting their blogs and this podcast and so many other projects. It can work for you, too!

Do you feel like you didn’t get anything done today? Do you score yourself against your to-do list and then mentally beat the crap out of yourself when you don’t get it ALL done? So many parents are plagued with self-doubt. Where does our self-doubt come from? Do you keep close tabs on yourself? The way you “score” yourself on GTD (getting-things-done) can definitely influence how you feel about yourself. What if… you’re wrong? Ugh… this is tough, guys! Can you really be TOP DOG in every area of your life? NOPE, you can’t. AND you sure as heck shouldn't beat yourself up about that. We want to offer you a BIG-A$$ Permission Slip to “phone it in” sometimes to give yourself a break (and allow your kids to SEE YOU give yourself a break, too). In this episode of ‘I Am The Worst Parent Ever’ podcast, Robert encourages Nicole and the listeners to use HYPOTHESES instead of GOALS (h/t Tara Gentile). That way you can focus on daily work and not results. Nicole admits that she likes the idea of having a GOAL (and using it to impress others). For her and others like her, not having a goal can make us anxious. But, guess what? Anxiety can actually BE MOTIVATING. Choose to push through the anxiety to break out of its debilitating nature and pull from its catalytic nature. Nicole and Robert also discuss Seth Godin's suggestion to "start before you are ready," which is SO scary (until you try it!) BUT it has worked for Nicole and Robert in starting their blogs and this podcast and so many other projects. It can work for you, too!

Lots of businesses and marketers are scrambling over the new data protection law, GDPR. But Tara Gentile is here to talk about some of the real-world benefits it can bring — not just to consumers, but to business. This week, Tara Gentile swung by to talk about the GDPR (Europe's General Data Protection Regulation), and... Listen to episode --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/copyblogger-podcast/message

Lots of businesses and marketers are scrambling over the new data protection law, GDPR. But Tara Gentile is here to talk about some of the real-world benefits it can bring — not just to consumers, but to business. This week, Tara Gentile swung by to talk about the GDPR (Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation), and... Listen to episode

What's up, Achievers?! Another fun episode for you all! In the first question, we discuss how to address if you or you're client has a lot of tightness overall in their hamstrings, upper traps, pecs, etc. We reference the book "Original Strength" by Tim Anderson that serves as the basis for a lot of our answers here (3:10). One area we didn't touch on was foam rolling/soft tissue work so make sure to include that as well! Next, we cover what to do for muscle imbalances (one muscle being a lot stronger/bigger than the other side). Don't worry - it's super common and normal, but we cover some ways to help mitigate having the imbalance become too great (9:49). Lastly, we answer a question from Tara Gentile - host of the podcast, "What Works". Tara's podcast is fantastic for small business owners that are looking for what has helped other small business owners become successful - definitely check it out! Anyways, her question was about overtraining. We discuss generally how to tell if you're overtraining and that there are a whole host of factors that go into overtraining. We also talka bout how if you are feeling run-down, you might be actually be "under-recovered" rather than "over-trained"! There wasn't a hard and fast answer here, but hopefully some of the discussion will help give you all a better understanding of the concept (14:23)! We hope you enjoyed this episode! If you did, we'd love you forever if you left a review on iTunes - it seriously helps us out a lot! Please DM us @achievefitnessboston on Instagram if you have any questions you'd like us to answer. Until next time, Peace, Love, and Muscles!

What's up, Achievers?! Another fun episode for you all! In the first question, we discuss how to address if you or you're client has a lot of tightness overall in their hamstrings, upper traps, pecs, etc. We reference the book "Original Strength" by Tim Anderson that serves as the basis for a lot of our answers here (3:10). One area we didn't touch on was foam rolling/soft tissue work so make sure to include that as well! Next, we cover what to do for muscle imbalances (one muscle being a lot stronger/bigger than the other side). Don't worry - it's super common and normal, but we cover some ways to help mitigate having the imbalance become too great (9:49). Lastly, we answer a question from Tara Gentile - host of the podcast, "What Works". Tara's podcast is fantastic for small business owners that are looking for what has helped other small business owners become successful - definitely check it out! Anyways, her question was about overtraining. We discuss generally how to tell if you're overtraining and that there are a whole host of factors that go into overtraining. We also talka bout how if you are feeling run-down, you might be actually be "under-recovered" rather than "over-trained"! There wasn't a hard and fast answer here, but hopefully some of the discussion will help give you all a better understanding of the concept (14:23)! We hope you enjoyed this episode! If you did, we'd love you forever if you left a review on iTunes - it seriously helps us out a lot! Please DM us @achievefitnessboston on Instagram if you have any questions you'd like us to answer. Until next time, Peace, Love, and Muscles!

Tara Gentile shares her journey from “I’m not the kind of person who works out” to avid hiker, runner, and climber. We also talk about the critical mindset shift that propelled her to prioritize fitness, and the powerful side effects that committing to her health had on Tara’s business, social life, and relationships. Tara is founder of CoCommercial, a digital small business community for entrepreneurs serious about making money, impacting their communities, and transforming the lives of those they love. (Original broadcast: 2/20/18)

Tara Gentile is the founder of CoCommercial, a business community for entrepreneurs serious about making money and impacting their communities. She’s also the host of Profit. Power. Pursuit., a bestselling instructor on CreativeLive, and has been featured in Fast Company, Inc, and Forbes. In this episode, we talk about how the last US election drastically changed the social media landscape, why authenticity is so critical, how the price you charge tells a story and the future of digital marketing.

Are you showing up as an active participant in creating the kind of business and life you want? In today's minisode, Emily is expanding on an idea she discussed with Tara Gentile on the What Works podcast. Emily shares how being an active participant in the creation of the Being Boss book was the key to how it ultimately ended up as exactly what she wanted. Sponsored by Twenty20.

Tara Gentile is an author and business strategist, who works with entrepreneurs and helps them design their personal “quiet power strategy” that will tap into their strengths and help them lead themselves where they want to go. She teaches her clients how to find what makes them most effective. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Design Sponge, and in the bestselling book The $100 Startup. She is also an instructor and speaker, teaching about entrepreneurship, money, and the new economy. She joins Charlie on the show today to talk about her journey and her work and share some of her insights on the entrepreneurial world.    Key Takeaways: 01:40 – How Tara got started doing what she does. 06:28 – The hardest lessons Tara learned during her first years of business. 09:58 – How Tara’s background in religious studies helped and also didn’t help in her early years of business. 13:23 – Figuring out how what you create aligns with people’s worldviews and with their needs and with their values. 14:29 – Entrepreneurs realizing that they’re solving the same problem everyone else is solving, but doing it in a way that’s completely unique to you. 15:42 – What Kick Start Labs is all about. 18:40 – How Tara balances being an introvert and doing the work that she does. 23:51 – How being a control freak can get in the way of being an entrepreneur and navigating a business. 28:37 – Moments in Tara’s career that made her know for sure this was what she wanted to be doing. 34:33 – What Tara is afraid of right now in her work.  37:57 – The most unanticipated challenge Tara is currently facing. 39:30 – Leverage what’s most effective for you.   Mentioned In This Episode: Quiet Power Strategy Fast Company Forbes Design Sponge The New York Times The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau CreativeLive Lebanon Valley College Borders Books and Music Kick Start Labs Etsy Pioneer Nation

#038 — Breaking Down The Writing Process The pressure to be perfect can stop us from putting our ideas on paper—or screen, as the case may be. But if you follow Tara Gentile’s wisdom and reframe your writing as the beginning of a conversation that invites others weigh in, that can be a game-changer. Welcome to another of my experiments on the Startup Pregnant Podcast: For the month of March, I’ll be sharing a mini-episode that follows each of my long-form interviews, doing a deep dive into one of the topics that came up in the previous episode and offering listeners a useful strategy or actionable application of the guest’s advice. In Episode 37, Tara Gentile described her ‘call and response’ approach to the writing process. Today, I’m digging into this concept, explaining how collaboration makes my writing better. I also walk through the three phases of the writing process, describing how each piece requires a different part of my brain and why it’s useful to separate ideation, execution and editing. Listen in as I break down the writing process, offering tips and tools to help you start a conversation of your own. FULL SHOW NOTES: Get the complete show notes with episode quotes, photos, and time stamps at http://www.startuppregnant.com/038. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Startup Pregnant Episode 37 Jeff Goins Captio App Evernote THE STARTUP PREGNANT PODCAST & HOST Startup Pregnant Startup Pregnant on Facebook Startup Pregnant on Twitter Sponsor the Podcast Email hello@startuppregnant.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startuppregnant/message

  #037 — Putting Your Mission Back In The Driver's Seat  With Tara Gentile  Rebranding your business is a risk, especially if what you’re doing is still making money. How can you be sure it’s time to shake up the status quo and shift your focus? Tara Gentile can attest to the fact that there is no easy framework for making that decision. But a good place to start is by asking the question, “What is the company that I really want to build?” Tara has spent the last year getting back to her original mission, getting clear and focused on the legacy she wants to leave behind, and rebooting her business to emphasize the community aspect of her small business network and give members access to the collective intelligence of the group. Today, Tara shares how losing out on a promotion during maternity leave inspired her start her own business. She explains how her business has evolved over time and offers insight around retiring products, hiring employees and putting on live events. I ask Tara about her writing practice, and she speaks to the call-response approach she employs to facilitate conversation among the CoCommercial community. Listen in and learn about how the flexibility of entrepreneurship enables Tara’s atypical co-parenting situation and what her daughter is teaching her about herself. FULL SHOW NOTES: Get the complete show notes with episode quotes, photos, and time stamps at http://www.startuppregnant.com/037. EPISODE SPONSOR & SPECIAL OFFER: Thank you to the sponsor of this episode: Acuity Scheduling. Acuity functions as an online assistant, helping to organize your schedule and collect client information. Take advantage of Acuity’s 45-day free trial for Startup Pregnant listeners at https://acuityscheduling.com/startuppregnant. All of our sponsor offers are available on our website for you to grab the perks and discounts offered to podcast listeners: http://startuppregnant.com/sponsors. LEARN MORE ABOUT TARA GENTILE: Tara is the founder of CoCommercial, a social network for microbusiness owners that brings together coaches, consultants, educators, designers and makers who are passionate about taking control of their livelihoods in the New Economy. Tara’s work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes and Inc., among many others. She is a sought-after speaker on the topics of money, marketing and entrepreneurship, a bestselling CreativeLive instructor, and the author of several books on doing business today. Tara is also the host of Power. Profit. Pursuit., one of the top 24 women-hosted podcasts for business owners. CoCommercial Tara on Facebook Tara on Twitter Tara on Instagram Tara on Medium Profit. Power. Pursuit. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Tara’s Books Tara on Creative Live Marie Poulin Gusto THE STARTUP PREGNANT PODCAST & HOST Startup Pregnant Startup Pr --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startuppregnant/message

We always hear the story of someone quitting their 9 to 5 job in the corporate world to become an entrepreneur.  What happens when an entrepreneur feels a need to shift? What about when they feel their mission is complete, and they want to move on to something else? There isn't really a name for this entrepreneurial shift that happens. It's something that many people hesitate about because they worry about their finances, or they worry it's the wrong time. Much like taking the first leap into being an entrepreneur, shifting to a new area of entrepreneurship means taking a risk. Remember, you did it once there's no reason you can do it again. Of course there will be a small amount of financial uncertainty, but the transition isn't that scary and it's always better to make less and be happy than make more and feel miserable.  On this episode of the Creative Warriors we bring on someone who knows a lot about making this pivot, Tara Gentile. Tara is the founder of CoCommercial, a digital small business community for entrepreneurs serious about making money, impacting their communities, and transforming the lives of those they love. She's also the host of Profit. Power. Pursuit., a podcast that takes you behind the scenes of successful small businesses. Entrepreneur named it one of 24 top women-hosted podcasts for business owners. Not only that, she's also a bestselling Money & Life instructor on CreativeLive. Check out her (mostly) weekly live show, Help Yourself, for in-depth, non-obvious conversations about the ins and outs of growing a company you love. Download this episode of Creative Warriors now and hear how to know if it's time for you to make a vital pivot in your life. WARRIOR OF INDEPENDENCE    “I get to choose my mission.” -Tara Gentile  My book, LINGO: Discover Your Ideal Customer's Secret Language and Make Your Business Irresistible is now available! Highlights - When you decide to transition, consider the roots you come from. Once a transition starts, there's no going back. You want your pivots to occur more quickly so it doesn't kill your finances. There are many entrepreneurs who transition to a new type of entrepreneurship. It's always the right time. You don't have to have a singular purpose. Take time to really think about your business. We often plan more for failure than we do for success. Many times we sabotage ourselves after we hit our goals. Be around people who see more in you than you see in yourself. Guest Contact - Tara's Website Tara's Twitter Tara's Podcast Tara's Book Quiet Power Strategy Mentions- The Art of Community by Charles H. Vogl 17hats  Resources - 12 Must-Have Mindsets for Uncommon Entrepreneurs! A FREE tool for Creative Warriors to help you get clear on the ways you need to think differently to get the results you want. We've been handed a whole bunch of malarky about who we are and how business works that simply doesn't work for us. It's time to set it straight! This tool will give you the insights you need to think your way to success as a Creative Warrior and keep you on track. Check out the Creative Warriors RESOURCE page! A collection of the best companies, hand-selected, to help you succeed! You'll find vendors, services, products, and programs to help you Create, Serve, and Be Prosperous! All these companies have been used and approved by Jeffrey and most are used every day in his business. Music by Jawn  

Lara reflects on this week's interview with Tara Gentile. To register for the free virtual workshop Lara mentions, visit https://laradalch.com/unconsciousstories

Tara Gentile shares her journey from “I'm not the kind of person who works out” to avid hiker, runner, and climber. We also talk about the critical mindset shift that propelled her to prioritize fitness, and the powerful side effects that committing to her health had on Tara's business, social life, and relationships. Tara is founder of CoCommercial, a digital small business community for entrepreneurs serious about making money, impacting their communities, and transforming the lives of those they serve.

Today on the Podcast, Building Trust in Life & Biz You know those women who just tell it like it is? The ones who command attention and respect simply by walking in the room; without ever having to say a word? That's today's guest. As funny as she is fierce, Elizabeth is my favorite kinda woman. Like so many of our Dreamcatchers, this gal is the full expression of what it is to be an integrated right and left brain; masculine and feminine energy; Creative and Entrepreneur; student and teacher. Better yet? She's wildly, unapologetically, so. But that confidence doesn't happen over night ... Not for you. Not for me. Not even for those women whom we so admire and adore. Yes, each of us — in our own time and in our own way — must learn to tell the truth of who we are, what we want, why we started. And to do that? We've got to start by unlearning and un-shaming all that we are not.  This is our moral imperative: to remember to remember. And ... to defy doubt. To get out of our own way. To breakthrough blocks. And to do the work. EVEN when nobody's watching; when nobody's supporting; when nothing's going right. Even then. Not merely for ourselves, our own needs and our own desires, but for those whose voice (all too often) goes unheard. So that we can, as Zainab Salbi writes, "help move women from Victims to Survivors to Agents of Change."  This is our call to action. And it requires boundaries and trust. Enter my Conversation with fellow Podcaster, Speaker, and Leader Elizabeth DiAlto ... Known for her raw, honest and grounded approach to self-help and spirituality, Elizabeth DiAlto is the founder of Wild Soul Movement, author of Untame Yourself, and host of the popular Truth Telling with Elizabeth DiAlto podcast (formerly the Untame The Wild Soul Woman podcast). She's been a teacher, leader, speaker, coach and trainer to groups and individuals for more than 15 years, in three different industries, consulting for organizations ranging from start-ups to large corporations such as Dove UK. While I've been blessed to know many a silly and sincere sister-friend, whose found success and satisfaction doing what she loves, I feel lucky to call Elizabeth one more. In this Episode We Talk About: • How to learn to trust yourself to be more confident and consistent • When boundaries are easy to set but hard to enforce • Why it’s critical we recognize the jobs and tasks we’d NEVER be hired for • How to celebrate yourself as a Content Creator or an Artist (hint: they’re different) • Why having a mission or a message is not the same thing as having a business • The #1 Trend Forecast for 2018 within the online marketing space • When it’s crucial to depersonalize rejection (especially with Sales) • How her brand is evolving and the kind of women she's attracting • What she did to heal her own blind spots in work and relationships • How she’s grown as a leader, found her pace, set up systems - all for more spontaneity • Why co-dependency and emotional abuse is like second hand smoke • How she answers her own question: What do you love about being a woman?   If you've attended a live Dreamcatchers District event in LA, coached with me privately, been invited to one of our secret virtual masterclasses, or applied for an immersive planning retreat weekend and mastermind — then you already know how much building trust and setting boundaries plays into our practices for inner and outer Creative Direction. It's a core component of Energy Leadership and key for focusing and following through. Simply another reason why Elizabeth's work is so complimentary yet so distinct. And I cannot wait to host her, and you, at an upcoming live or virtual experience. Get Ready to Hear All The Behind-The-Scenes Stories & Insights. Mentioned in this Podcast: • Follow Elizabeth: Website , Truth Telling with Elizabeth Dialto Podcast , Instagram • People & Things Mentioned: Brene Brown , Kate Northrup , Michelle Warner , Jill Coleman , Tara Gentile , Terri Cole , Human Design • Past Episodes: "Ep 014 Styling Life and Business with Marie Forleo's Stylist Elsa Isaac" , "Ep 004: Money, Marriage and Business Models with Mamapreneur Bari Tessler" , and "Ep 020: 5 Steps to Beat Overwhelm & Prioritize Goals" • The Dreamcatchers District: Creative Direction for Your Beliefs, Body, Biz & Brand GET INVITED TO LIVE LA + VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES   This is Not a Monologue, Chime In! • Rate, Review and Subscribe. Share this with your friends. Listen with your team. Send it to yo mama! • Got a question you want answered on the podcast? A guest you want interviewed? • Email your biggest challenges, aha’s, and guest nominations to info @ DreamcatchersDistrict.com .

Tara Gentile, author and the founder of CoCommercial, joins us this week to share how she pivoted her business model to help turn small business owners into tomorrow’s economic powerhouses. Listen and learn: The less common motivation behind registering your trademark Why consulting your ideal customer can help you fine-tune your perfect product How a licensing program can broaden your reach How understanding the difference between an independent contractor and an employee can help make the hiring leap less scary KEY TAKEAWAY: When you “don’t know what you don’t know”, legal can seem intimidating. But sometimes doing your due diligence and tackling something scary like legal can open doors to help you grow your business more effectively. Sign up below to get a free 5 Minute Intellectual Property Audit to learn how you can make more money from the copyrights and trademarks in your business (plus be the first to know when new episodes are live). This podcast is information, not legal advice specific to your situation.

Tara Gentile is a writer, community builder, and a brilliant entrepreneur. Back in 2008, an aggravating incident at work pushed her to decide to leave the job market and start building her own vision and business. Tara got her start with founding the premier website for promoting arts & crafts in Pennsylvania before moving on to creating an online publication called Scoutie Girl. For the past five years, my guest has been growing her now main business called CoCommercial a fluff-free social network for small business owners on a mission. In this episode we discuss, community building, content marketing for customer acquisition, and the journey from freelancer to entrepreneur. Now, let’s hack… Tara Gentile.

Happy Holidays friends!  Oh boy, this episode with Jen Gotch was one of my favorites and I’m excited to reshare it with you.  Not only is Jen an inspirational business woman, but she’s honest, open and real with sharing both her successes and her failures.  This episode is a great reminder that we all start in the same place -- the beginning.  Enjoy the show! -------------- Jen Gotch is the chief creative officer and fearless leader of Ban.do.  Jen founded the company in 2008 with no prior business experience and was able to transform it from a small, vintage, one-of-a-kind hair accessory company into a million dollar brand within years.  I had the pleasure of working with Jen when she was a speaker at our Tradeshow Bootcamp Business Camp conference. She not only offers a wealth of information, but she’s passionate about helping creative entrepreneurs succeed.  On today’s episode, we’re talking about how Ban.do evolved into the lifestyle brand it is today, why having a strong brand is the best thing you can do for your business and the importance of making time for self-reflection no matter how many years you’ve been in business.   ON TODAY’S EPISODE: The evolution of Ban.do Selling to Lifeguard Press and how this enabled further growth Hard lessons Jen has learned in business Why having a strong brand is important and affects other aspects of business How and why Jen gives back to other entrepreneurs The importance of focusing on top level projects as the founder of your business Advice for entrepreneurs What’s upcoming for Ban.do KEY TAKE-AWAYS:   “I’m a problem solver by nature. I walk towards them, not away from them. But I have no business walking towards half the problems I do.” - Jen Gotch   “Sheer will will not allow me to do it all and be great at everything.“ - Jen Gotch   “Being able to have a voice that stands outside of the product makes it easier for people to attach to your business and makes it easier for your business to pivot“ - Jen Gotch   “People have questions that are different than the questions they used to have.  They hold companies and brands accountable for things they never had to be accountable before.  It’s a very interesting time to be in business.”- Jen Gotch   “Retailers were wanting newness more often.” - Jen Gotch   “It is really easy to focus on medium level shit, because those things tend to have a beginning, middle and end and we can check it off our list. Hold yourself accountable to not get into the minutia” - Jen Gotch on focusing on high level shit   “The faster you can figure out where you add the most value and what you should be doing and what someone else should be doing, you’ll grow and scale” - Jen Gotch.   MEET JEN: Jen Gotch is a creative powerhouse who brakes for yard sales and unicorns. She founded ban.do with a friend in 2008, and with no prior business experience, was able to transform it from a small, vintage, one-of-a-kind hair accessories company into a multimillion dollar brand within years. After a long (and winding) road of jobs that led her to where she is today, she’s now the chief creative officer and fearless leader of the ban.do team. She’s passionate about continuing to grow ban.do while sharing the experience with her many Instagram followers (and anyone else who’s interested), because she wholeheartedly believes that you don’t get anywhere in life without the help and kindness of others.   CONNECT WITH JEN & BAN.DO: Website: https://www.bando.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shopbando Ban.do’s Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/shopbando/ Jen’s Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/jengotch Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/shopbando/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shopbando   JOIN THE TSBC FAMILY: Need help streamlining your business operations?  Are you feeling a bit stuck in your business? Maybe you're worried about things like marketing, technology, or hiring a team. If so, you are not alone, and we've got a course for you. The Business Camp e-course includes lessons from Tara Gentile, Jen Gotch of Ban.do, Chelsea of Sugar Paper, as well as experts in public relations, websites, email marketing, and much, much more. This course includes eight hours of video content, and a 30 page workbook. You will finish this course feeling confident, energized, and armed with concrete information to help you refine your business systems. Plus the on-demand format lets you jump around to topics that are most relevant to you when you need them most As you guys know by now, I'm a firm believer in working smarter, not harder, and this course is gonna help you streamline your business, whether you're product-based, or service-based business. Head over to tsbcvizcamp.com. That's TSBCbizcamp.com for more information. And for a limited time, our proof to product listeners will receive $50 off with promo code prooftoproduct.   ABOUT PROOF TO PRODUCT: Proof to Product is brought to you by Tradeshow Bootcamp and hosted by Katie Hunt. Since 2011, TSBC has worked with hundreds of product based businesses to help them up level, scale, and build profitable sustainable companies. You can find our show notes and additional resources at ProofToProduct.com. If you like what you heard today, please head over to Apple Podcast to leave a five star review and subscribe. Thanks so much for listening. We'll be back next week with a new episode.

What does it take to be a leader? Tara Gentile joins us again on Being Boss to talk about how becoming a leader in your market and breaking into the "in crowd," is much more achievable than you might thing—and she's sharing what it takes to get there. This episode is sponsored by Freshbooks Cloud Accounting Get full show notes for this episode here --- Follow Tara on Instagram: @taragentile Follow Being Boss on Instagram: @beingbossclub Follow Being Boss on Twitter: @beingbossclub Follow Being Boss on Facebook: facebook.com/beingbossclub

How do you break into a career field that barely exists? What resources do you search for? Do you know where to search? Who to contact for guidance? Crosby Noricks has access to those answers! Crosby is the founder of PR Couture, which is the PR sourcebook for fashion and lifestyle communicators. With her business, she aims to support individuals, brands, and agencies with strategy building, job leads and finding business partners and collaborators. They also created the Bespoke Communications Awards, which focuses on recognizing overlooked, high performing players in the PR industry, such as the 2017 winners Rue La La and J Public Relations. Always having a passion and love for the fashion industry, she couldn’t have been more excited to find that she could mix her two loves of PR and fashion into a profitable career. Though when she began networking in the PR fashion industry, she found it hard to connect with the right people and find sources to learn from. So she took to the fashion blogging world with PR Couture and used her platform to shed light on the decisions being made, and the communication strategies being developed by the behind-the-scenes PR reps. Launching in 2006, she saw that most PR agencies only had an online Splash page with their phone numbers on them, and relied heavily on selling themselves through a cold call. Feeling like she was too introverted and nervous to let a phone call seal the deal, she networked and built her audience by hunting through LinkedIn and Google for PR reps in fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle. Via email she introduced her blog and asked them for some tips and tricks about navigating the industry, and what their work looked like in the day-to-day. She then used that material and advice for PR Couture’s posts. While running her blog, she still held a full-time position at a digital marketing agency, where she managed the social media department.  She used that role to further promote PR Couture by using conferences for the agency as a networking opportunity to gain knowledge on different social and digital marketing techniques; as well as community building centering through branding. With all the opportunities and intel she accumulated through building these relationships, she was able to self-publish a book in 2012 and began to career coach young entry-level talent on how to break into fashion PR. With these other platforms, she continues to help them set career goals, and connects them with PR professionals that she feels they’d clique with, and provide the best assistance to. Since she has added a job board and an agency directory, that has provided several strong internships and full-time positions at companies across the industry such as Greenlee Swim and Zoi Agency. This has kept them at the top of the search engine results for PR jobs in fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle; which has led to increased traffic and trust from visitors. Crosby has also launched an affordable entry-level course, called Prism, a 3-month online program that teaches personal branding, PR skills, and offers more guidance in career planning. Hear more about how Crosby continues to expand PR Couture brand, like with their new reality PR web series and helps young PR reps find their place in fashion!! In this episode, you will… Learn how to support newcomers in your field with your brand and company Find ways to build a network in your field See if your business’s brand will flourish with or without you as the face of it Understand the power of email acquisition, segmentation, and personal and professional support Know if your brand has one or multiple target audiences Figure out how to positively dismantle stigmas about your career with business and brand INSIGHTS “I had a lot of questions because when you learn about public relations in college it’s [a] very academic perspective…if you’re a girl sitting there with these big, big dreams of fashion, lifestyle, entertainment, you’re not getting a lot of useful information. I was just so curious. I wanted to know what the work actually looked like in the day-to-day, and so that’s really where the blog started.” -Crosby Noricks “There was no clear-cut path…the success that had happened was very masculine in approach…I started [PR Couture] because I wanted to share information, and I figured if there were people out there seeking this information like I was, I would take the lead…I will be the person to try to provide these answers.” -Crosby Noricks “There’s still this lingering perception that because fashion is considered to be a little bit superficial, that those who work in the industry are also superficial…[and] without depth, and that’s been something that I’ve really tried to challenge by featuring the stories, and insights, and boosting the credibility of many of the women that I know who work in the field…and giving them space in the site to showcase their thought leadership.” -Crosby Noricks RESOURCES PR Couture Website Crosby Noricks Profile PR Couture Facebook PR Couture Instagram PR Couture Twitter PR Couture LinkedIn The Living Room Strategy by Tara Gentile

"The Success Sessions" is a series in which Gemma invites business rock stars who are killing it in their own field to talk about the meaning of success. In this episode, Gemma is joined by inspiring business consultant, Breanne Dyck. Resources mentioned in this episode: The FREE Growth Map Toolkit: https://mnibconsulting.com/lp/toolkit/ Habitica: https://habitica.com/static/front More on Breanne here: Breanne Dyck is the founder of MNIB Consulting and creator of the Growth Map method, a results-focused approach for scaling online training, coaching and service-based businesses to $1m and beyond. With more than ten years of experience in operations, finance, team building, business development and product development for online learning, Breanne has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs structure their businesses for explosive--yet sustainable--growth. She is also the author of the international bestselling book, 'Beyond Satisfaction: the secret to crafting a profitable online course that will change lives' and has consulted on numerous multi-million dollar products and programs, as well as CreativeLive courses, live events and workshops. Her private client roster has included such well-known online entrepreneurs as Chris Guillebeau, Tara Gentile, Natalie Sisson and Denise Duffield-Thomas. When she's not writing, consulting with clients or speaking, you're likely to find Breanne with her nose in a business book, playing designer board games or building Lego. Check out Breanne's website: www.mnibconsulting.com Find Breanne on Facebook: facebook.com/mnibconsulting Download - How to build an amazing, effective team that gets results without relying on you: mnibconsulting.com/gemma For more simply smart strategies and business inspiration, find Gemma here: http://gemmawent.co.uk/

Katie Hunt, founder of Tradeshow Bootcamp has hosted 13 live events over the last five years for Tradeshow Bootcamp and even more when she was in the corporate world. Today's mini episode focuses on four key tips for hosting live events:   1. Focus on your content first 2. Be mindful of your budget 3. Involve your audience in the planning proces 4. Set realistic goals for your event.   If you're looking for more information about how I plan Paper Camp and build live events into my business model, check out my interview with Tara Gentile on Profit Power Pursuit podcast. Look for episode 96 at www.taragentile.com/podcast

Tara Gentile joins us on the She Means Business podcast today with an amazing story of how she started her business with a brand new baby and grew it from a grass-roots level to 6 figures in 18 months. How did she do it? By focusing intensely on the people she was serving (in the arts and crafts movement), who in the beginning were literally the people in her local community! In this episode, Tara shows how she has been able to pivot in her business and evolve her brand to the point that it is today. I love how she touched on the importance of creating a community that grows with your brand.  It's a great lesson to learn since growth in business often requires us to pivot and go in a direction that isn't completely in line with how we started out. So, to learn how to do that successfully and maintain an audience that follows you no matter what, have a listen to this week's entrepreneurial chat. :) Oh, and don't forget to leave a comment to be in with a chance to win something AMAZING - a spot in one of Tara's upcoming online retreats - worth $3,400.00!

Join us LIVE In the Spotlight on Crowdcast, Thursdays at 2pm EST : https://www.crowdcast.io/tanyageisler  This week's guest is Tara Gentile and we're talking Showing UP in Community.  Tara Gentile is the founder of CoCommercial, a digital small business community for entrepreneurs serious about making money, impacting their communities, and transforming the lives of those they love. She’s also the host of Profit. Power. Pursuit., a podcast that takes you behind the scenes of successful small businesses.She's the author of several books, a sought-after speaker, and a frequent CreativeLive instructor. Find full episode show notes here.

Tara Gentile joins us on the She Means Business podcast today with an amazing story of how she started her business with a brand new baby and grew it from a grass-roots level to 6 figures in 18 months. How did she do it? By focusing intensely on the people she was serving (in the arts and crafts movement), who in the beginning were literally the people in her local community! In this episode, Tara shows how she has been able to pivot in her business and evolve her brand to the point that it is today. I love how she touched on the importance of creating a community that grows with your brand.  It's a great lesson to learn since growth in business often requires us to pivot and go in a direction that isn't completely in line with how we started out. So, to learn how to do that successfully and maintain an audience that follows you no matter what, have a listen to this week's entrepreneurial chat. :) Oh, and don't forget to leave a comment to be in with a chance to win something AMAZING - a spot in one of Tara's upcoming online retreats - worth $3,400.00!

TSBC Alum, Heather Harris has been designing day planners and desk products since 2004 for clients including  momAgenda, Barney’s, Brooks Brothers, and Tiffany & Co. In 2015, she branched out on her own to start Copper Bottom Design Co. where she and her team help product based businesses with design, proofreading and overseas production.  On today’s episode, we’re talking how to know if you’re ready for overseas manufacturing, common errors people make when creating day planners and how her past experiences and skills have led her to create a thriving, enriching business for herself.   ON TODAY’S EPISODE: Heather’s rich background in the industry & what led her to starting Copper Bottom Design. Manufacturing overseas & what the process looks like. How she helps product makers manufacture overseas. Fears surrounding manufacturing overseas. Benchmarks or metrics to determine if manufacturing overseas is right for you. Common mistakes she sees when people create day planners. What’s upcoming for Copper Bottom Design Co. KEY TAKE-AWAYS:   “There are strategic reasons for choosing overseas manufacturing”  Heather Harris   “When I went out on my own it was lonely.  Then I met the Paper Camp community and I craved a team again.” - Heather Harris   “Manufacturing overseas is just like getting ready to hire an employee. You're at a certain point where you've grown so much that you can't handle it anymore, and you're looking to outsource.” - Heather Harris   Ask for samples.  You can’t create a product without seeing it. - Heather Harris   RESOURCES: Ultimate Holiday Guide E-Book   MEET HEATHER: An avid organizer, list maker, and devoted print girl, Heather has been designing day planners and desk products since 2004. She arrived at the world of fine stationery by way of Graphic Image, where she learned the ropes designing planners internally and for clients like Barney‰Ûªs, Brooks Brothers, and Tiffany & Co. Her love of high-end paper products is a near obsession, shaped by how a carefully crafted design becomes a beautiful, functional part of our daily lives. Her time as Director of Creative Services at momAgenda further expanded this passion to product development; aside from leading all design, she spent years managing the editorial process and overseas production.   In 2015, Heather decided to expand her client base and founded Copper Bottom Design Co., where she and her team take the helm of design, proofreading, and overseas production for growing stationery companies.   CONNECT WITH HEATHER: Website: http://www.copperbottomdesign.com/ Facebook: @copperbtmdesign Instagram: @copperbtmdesign Pinterest: @copperbtmdesign Twitter: @copperbtmdesign   JOIN THE TSBC FAMILY: Need help streamlining your business operations?  Are you feeling a bit stuck in your business? Maybe you're worried about things like marketing, technology, or hiring a team. If so, you are not alone, and we've got a course for you. The Business Camp e-course includes lessons from Tara Gentile, Jen Gotch of Ban.do, Chelsea of Sugar Paper, as well as experts in public relations, websites, email marketing, and much, much more. This course includes eight hours of video content, and a 30 page workbook. You will finish this course feeling confident, energized, and armed with concrete information to help you refine your business systems. Plus the on-demand format lets you jump around to topics that are most relevant to you when you need them most   As you guys know by now, I'm a firm believer in working smarter, not harder, and this course is gonna help you streamline your business, whether you're product-based, or service-based business. Head over to tsbcvizcamp.com. That's TSBCbizcamp.com for more information. And for a limited time, our proof to product listeners will receive $50 off with promo code prooftoproduct.   ABOUT PROOF TO PRODUCT: Proof to Product is brought to you by Tradeshow Bootcamp and hosted by Katie Hunt. Since 2011, TSBC has worked with hundreds of product based businesses to help them up level, scale, and build profitable sustainable companies. You can find our show notes and additional resources at ProofToProduct.com. If you like what you heard today, please head over to Apple Podcast to leave a five star review and subscribe. Thanks so much for listening. We'll be back next week with a new episode.

This week, Tara is joined by CoCommercial’s own marketing director and the founder of B, the forward-thinking PR agency, Brigitte Lyons. Brigitte and Tara have been friends for years and love working together. Brigitte helped Tara land several huge media placements including 2 popular articles in Fast Company. Now, she leads an agency that creates […] The post Episode 94 – Why Marketing Campaigns Fail with CoCommercial Founder Tara Gentile and Media Strategist Brigitte Lyons appeared first on What Works.

Jen Gotch is the chief creative officer and fearless leader of Ban.do.  Jen founded the company in 2008 with no prior business experience and was able to transform it from a small, vintage, one-of-a-kind hair accessory company into a million dollar brand within years.  I had the pleasure of working with Jen when she was a speaker at our Tradeshow Bootcamp Business Camp conference. She not only offers a wealth of information, but she’s passionate about helping creative entrepreneurs succeed.  On today’s episode, we’re talking about how Ban.do evolved into the lifestyle brand it is today, why having a strong brand is the best thing you can do for your business and the importance of making time for self-reflection no matter how many years you’ve been in business.   ON TODAY’S EPISODE: The evolution of Ban.do Selling to Lifeguard Press and how this enabled further growth Hard lessons Jen has learned in business Why having a strong brand is important and affects other aspects of business How and why Jen gives back to other entrepreneurs The importance of focusing on top level projects as the founder of your business Advice for entrepreneurs What’s upcoming for Ban.do KEY TAKE-AWAYS:   “I’m a problem solver by nature. I walk towards them, not away from them. But I have no business walking towards half the problems I do.” - Jen Gotch   “Sheer will will not allow me to do it all and be great at everything.“ - Jen Gotch   “Being able to have a voice that stands outside of the product makes it easier for people to attach to your business and makes it easier for your business to pivot“ - Jen Gotch   “People have questions that are different than the questions they used to have.  They hold companies and brands accountable for things they never had to be accountable before.  It’s a very interesting time to be in business.”- Jen Gotch   “Retailers were wanting newness more often.” - Jen Gotch   “It is really easy to focus on medium level shit, because those things tend to have a beginning, middle and end and we can check it off our list. Hold yourself accountable to not get into the minutia” - Jen Gotch on focusing on high level shit   “The faster you can figure out where you add the most value and what you should be doing and what someone else should be doing, you’ll grow and scale” - Jen Gotch.   MEET JEN: Jen Gotch is a creative powerhouse who brakes for yard sales and unicorns. She founded ban.do with a friend in 2008, and with no prior business experience, was able to transform it from a small, vintage, one-of-a-kind hair accessories company into a multimillion dollar brand within years. After a long (and winding) road of jobs that led her to where she is today, she’s now the chief creative officer and fearless leader of the ban.do team. She’s passionate about continuing to grow ban.do while sharing the experience with her many Instagram followers (and anyone else who’s interested), because she wholeheartedly believes that you don’t get anywhere in life without the help and kindness of others.   CONNECT WITH JEN & BAN.DO: Website: https://www.bando.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shopbando Ban.do’s Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/shopbando/ Jen’s Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/jengotch Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/shopbando/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shopbando   JOIN THE TSBC FAMILY: Need help streamlining your business operations?  Are you feeling a bit stuck in your business? Maybe you're worried about things like marketing, technology, or hiring a team. If so, you are not alone, and we've got a course for you. The Business Camp e-course includes lessons from Tara Gentile, Jen Gotch of Ban.do, Chelsea of Sugar Paper, as well as experts in public relations, websites, email marketing, and much, much more. This course includes eight hours of video content, and a 30 page work book. You will finish this course feeling confident, energized, and armed with concrete information to help you refine your business systems. Plus the on-demand format lets you jump around to topics that are most relevant to you when you need them most   As you guys know by now, I'm a firm believer in working smarter, not harder, and this course is gonna help you streamline your business, whether you're product-based, or service-based business. Head over to tsbcvizcamp.com. That's TSBCbizcamp.com for more information. And for a limited time, our proof to product listeners will receive $50 off with promo code prooftoproduct.   ABOUT PROOF TO PRODUCT: Proof to Product is brought to you by Tradeshow Bootcamp and hosted by Katie Hunt. Since 2011, TSBC has worked with hundreds of product based businesses to help them up level, scale, and build profitable sustainable companies. You can find our show notes and additional resources at ProofToProduct.com. If you like what you heard today, please head over to Apple Podcast to leave a five star review and subscribe. Thanks so much for listening. We'll be back next week with a new episode.

Tara Gentile is the founder of CoCommercial, a digital small business community for entrepreneurs serious about making money, impacting their communities, and transforming the lives of those they love. She’s also the host of Profit. Power. Pursuit., a podcast that takes you behind the scenes of successful small businesses. Entrepreneur named it one of 24 top women-hosted podcasts for business owners. Tara’s work has been featured in Fast Company, Inc, DailyWorth, Forbes, and The Huffington Post.   On Today’s episode we’re talking about overcoming mindset obstacles, proactive decision making in business and how to align yourselves with partners that elevate your brand.   ON TODAY’S EPISODE: [01:00] Misconceptions people have about running a business.[04:00] How mindset plays into business decisions, growth and general success.[10:00] How Tara tackles mindset concerns.[12:30] Making decisions now for what you want your business to be in the future.[18:30] How to decide on your long term goals.[20:30] Five year plans aren’t set in stone & business isn’t a straight line.[23:00] Benefits of dreaming bigger than you can imagine.[25:30] Ruthlessly auditing the way we present our products and services so that they align with our brand story.[30:00] Importance of research when building your products & services[33:00] Determining which strategic partnerships align best with your brand.[38:00] How strategic partnerships have elevated Tara’s brand.[43:00] How Tara defines success for her business[45:00] What’s next for CoCommercial. KEY TAKE-AWAYS:   “If you truly believe that you are taking action and things aren’t happening, traction isn’t there, it’s really time to examine that mindset stuff.” - Tara Gentile   “I have to build something a lot bigger than what I’m building right now and I have to build something that’s just not designed to make me a lot of money, but that’s actually designed to create something huge.” - Tara Gentile   “Research, research, research and don’t be afraid of research. One of the things that I find both in the product world and in the service world is that people are really afraid of researching their “competition”. - Tara Gentile “Pricing tells a story.” - Tara Gentile   “Get out in the world and look at what things are selling for in a broader scope.” - Katie Hunt   CONNECT WITH TARA:   Website: http://cocommercial.co Facebook: http://facebook.com/taragentilebusinessstrategist Instagram: http://instagram.com/taragentile Twitter: http://twitter.com/taragentile   JOIN THE TSBC FAMILY: Interested in learning more about launching or refining a wholesale line or exhibiting at trade shows?  Join us for our next Paper Camp conference in Los Angeles. Get more details and register at www.tradeshowcamp.com/papercamp   ABOUT PROOF TO PRODUCT: Proof to Product is brought to you by Tradeshow Bootcamp and hosted by Katie Hunt. Since 2011, TSBC has worked with hundreds of product based businesses to help them up level, scale, and build profitable sustainable companies. You can find our show notes and additional resources at ProofToProduct.com. If you like what you heard today, please head over to Apple Podcast to leave a five star review and subscribe. Thanks so much for listening. We'll be back next week with a new episode.

A business community for the new economy I had a lot of fun talking with Tara Gentile about her new community for digital business owners. In our 28-minute conversation, we talked about: How Tara engineered a community that got past the bias for whining The difference between selling education and delivering educational experiences Why we... Listen to episode

A business community for the new economy I had a lot of fun talking with Tara Gentile about her new community for digital business owners. In our 28-minute conversation, we talked about: How Tara engineered a community that got past the bias for whining The difference between selling education and delivering educational experiences Why we... Listen to episode --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/copyblogger-podcast/message

Tara Gentile is the CEO and Founder of Quiet Power Strategy, a firm specializing in hands-on business training for idea-driven entrepreneurs. As an entrepreneur, she has a unique focus on practical goals and purpose. Finding goals that are catalysts for pushing past obstacles to creating wealth is her sweet spot. We’ll delve into a fascinating conversation on what entrepreneurs can do to build robust, successful businesses that generate income with ease. By the end of this episode, you’ll be inspired to make more money and live life with ease. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: http://bit.ly/2mDvVsP

Right now is an incredibly exciting time for the state of small business. Thousands of people around the world are getting inspired to start a business, work for themselves, and follow their passions. In fact, statistics have shown that over the last 20 years, the growth rate of non-employer businesses in the United States has grown by a whopping 62%! Payroll jobs, however, have only grown by about 12%. More and more people around the world are realizing the shaky ground that is occurring throughout “traditional employment” and deciding to take action and take their fate into their own hands. 

My inspiring guest today is Tara Gentile, the founder of Quiet Power Strategy. Over the past eight years, Tara has grown a successful company by focusing on her strengths and letting go of the rest. One of the first things she told me when we got on the call was that she has "zero desire to be everything to everyone." Which is something I totally needed to hear (thank you Tara!) The post AALP 122 – Building a Business on Your Strengths with Tara Gentile appeared first on Wealth Clinic.

Today's Guest I'm very excited to introduce this week's guest, Katie Wyatt. She's one of those few people who managed to build a thriving community around her business and her podcast very quickly, and today she'll be sharing her secrets with us. About Katie Wyatt I’m building an empire and helping others to build their too. Whatever that means to you. Katie has been obsessed with the podcast platform to build businesses since launching her own successful podcast – The Wellness Entrepreneur – in late 2015. She now has two podcasts (she co-hosts #LadyBoss Chats with collaborator Elle Roberts) and helps entrepreneurs to conceptualise, create, launch and grow podcasts that grow their business. She facilitates a vibing Facebook community over at bit.ly/startgrowthrive – if you want to connect with a tribe of like-minded biz babes, get over there stat. Listen to this episode What You’ll Learn Katie's top tips on how to build a thriving community around your business and podcast How niching helped her build her audience The social network that Katie found especially effective in building her community Tips on how to help your community members speak up and participate How to take your online community offline Inspiring Women Amy Porterfield Natalie Eckdahl Elsie Escobar and Jessica Kupferman of ShePodcasts  Tara Gentile  Connect with Katie Website Facebook Twitter Click to Tweet It would make me so happy if you could take a minute and share this with other women entrepreneurs on Twitter. If you enjoy the Business Mindset Podcast, please click to tweet: [BMP180] Katie Wyatt ~ How to Build a Raving Community Who Love What You Do http://wp.me/p3507p-3H9  #podcast How to Subscribe Click here to subscribe via iTunes Click here to subscribe via RSS Click here to subscribe via Stitcher Help Spread the Word If you enjoyed this episode, please head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating and a review! You can also subscribe, so you'll never miss an episode.    

This week we’ve got something a little different for you. Tara Gentile has used your questions to create our very first listener inspired episode. It’s that time of year, it is time to assess what has worked in your business this year, and make plans to make more money, take time off, and grow your […] The post Episode 60 – 5 Ways to Improve Your New Year Business Plans appeared first on What Works.

Tara Gentile is joining us on the podcast again to talk about business models and creating a legacy business. We’ve been working with Tara in her mastermind group to plan for huge growth in Being Boss, so we’re talking about some of the problems we’ve faced, what we need to do to reach the goals we’ve set, and how wanting more is nothing to be ashamed of.

  Welcome to Therapy Chat! Today’s episode, the 9th and final episode in the Practice Building Series, is about using what makes you unique to create a successful business. Host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews amazing business strategist Tara Gentile, host of Profit.Power.Pursuit podcast, highly sought out speaker, creator of Quiet Power Strategy™ and the author of Quiet Power Strategy, The Art of Earning, The Observation Engine and The Art of Growth. Tara talks about exactly how you can tap into your Quiet Power and use it to highlight who you are and what makes clients want to work with you. She explains that it’s not just about being yourself. She explains how she uses systems to help people find her. She defines the three pillars of a business used in Quiet Power Strategy and why market research is important. Tara explains how you can use a “virtual focus group” to develop your business strategy. She speaks about what causes entrepreneur burnout and offers one key to avoiding it. She lists tangible ways you can change what you’re doing to avoid entrepreneur burnout. She teaches us about the importance of being intentional in your work in marketing your business, and what business strategy really is, in words we can easily understand. She leaves us with one question to ask that helps us identify our business strategy.    Resources mentioned in this episode:   Book: The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al Ries & Laura Ries on Amazon: (non affiliate link): https://www.amazon.com/22-Immutable-Laws-Branding/dp/0060007737/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474393744&sr=8-1&keywords=22+immutable+laws+of+branding   Toggl time tracking tool: https://toggl.com/   Tara’s podcast: Profit.Power.Pursuit.   Tara’s Quiet Power Strategy website: http://quietpowerstrategy.com   Tara’s QPS – the Lab: http://Lab.quietpowerstrategy.com   Tara’s books: http://taragentile.com/books/    We want to hear from you! Go to Therapy Chat Podcast website and share what you like or don’t like about the podcast. www.therapychatpodcast.com - click on the green button and let host Laura Reagan know if it’s okay to share your feedback on the podcast! You may be included in a future episode!   Thanks for listening to Therapy Chat! Please be sure to go to iTunes and leave a rating and review, subscribe and download episodes!

http://yourkickasslife.com/117 Today I have a bonus episode for you! The regularly scheduled episode came out yesterday-- 6 reasons you’re afraid and what to do about it-- and today I wanted to bring you a special guest today for a specific reason. As you know, I’m a life coach. The term “life coach” has taken on many meanings over the last couple of decades. It’s a relatively new profession, and even more new as an online business. I get many, many people who ask me questions like, “How did you become a life coach? Can you actually make a living at it? What school did you go to? What does one need to do to be successful at it? How do I build an online business?” and while I do take a handful of private clients for consulting on this topic, I wanted to have someone on whom I trust implicitly-- someone I’ve hired to help me in my business and who knows all there is to know about building an online business, Tara Gentile. Tara is the founder of Quiet Power Strategy, a company that provides hands-on business training for idea-driven entrepreneurs. She’s also the author of three books: Art of Earning, Quiet Power Strategy and The Observation Engine. She’s been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, and Chris Guillebeau’s New York Times best-seller The $100 Start-Up. As if that wasn’t enough, she also hosts a podcast called Profit Power Pursuit! It’s a show dedicated to highlighting the real truth about the logistics of running a successful business. Today we continue that truth-talking about the life coaching business, including who this industry is for and who it isn’t. She explains why most life coaches are missing the answer to this very important question, and why the answer is so critical.

In this conversation, Tara tells us why knowing your unique differences is crucial (and she shares how to find out what those differences are), why introverts make really good online business owners, and how consistency in messaging is crucial to driving readers from your free content to your paid offerings.

In today’s episode Tara turns the microphone around and becomes the interviewee. Michael Karsh, the Executive Producer of Content at CreativeLive talks to Tara about her experience writing and self-publishing four books. Tara discusses the reasons she decided to begin self-publishing five years ago and how she came up with the topic of her first […] The post Episode – 036 – Tara Gentile on the Power of Self-Publishing appeared first on What Works.

How do you turn your business into a “cash machine?” Can you build a successful business around a small number of high-quality customers who can really benefit from your big idea? And how do you keep your products and services cohesive so that they serve the whole of your business rather than diluting your efforts? Those […] The post Turn Your Business Into A Cash Machine with Tara Gentile: LifeWork Episode 13 appeared first on Life, Listened.

On this episode of The Angry Millennial, we're chatting with lifestyle entrepreneur + CreativeLive's Profit. Power. Pursuit podcast host, Tara Gentile. In this episode, we chat about her Quiet Power Strategy on selling yourself without selling yourself, struggling with the inevitable imposter syndrome, agreeing with Gary Vaynerchuk's jab, jab, jab, right hook mentality but argues throwing more right hooks early on can set the tone for how you run your business, the fear of letting down employees that now are under her entrepreneurial umbrella, what it was like saying no to CreativeLive for a craft class in hopes they'd bring her on for something else building that relationship into 6 courses on the platform and even a 30-day bootcamp How To Build a Standout Business, how no one ever talks about positioning in regards to marketing your business, our decision to change the weekly format to a 3-day a week show, the importance of paying attention a lot, her girlcrush on Tina Fey, and more on this episode of The Angry Millennial. Remember to always use #theangrymillennial on social media + follow @millennialangry on Twitter to ask any questions you'd like any of the upcoming guests to answer during the show.

Today’s guest is April Bowles-Olin, a writer, creative business consultant, marketing strategist, and photography dabbler. She has worked with hundreds of creatives via one-on-one consulting, group coaching and online courses. April has been featured on U.S. News and World Report, Etsy, and Design*Sponge, among many others. April and Tara Gentile talked about her recent decision […] The post Episode 032 – Hiring Your First Team Member with April Bowles-Olin appeared first on What Works.

Tara Gentile is the creator of Quiet Power Strategy™ and the founder of CoCommercial, a company specializing in hands-on business training for idea-driven entrepreneurs. She’s passionate about helping people with smart ideas make more money, reach new audiences, and live life with ease. Tara is the author of “The Art of Earning,” “Quiet Power Strategy,” and “The Observation Engine.” Tara’s work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Design*Sponge, and in the New York Times bestselling book “The $100 Startup” by Chris Guillebeau. She’s a regular instructor on CreativeLive and speaks on entrepreneurship, money, and marketing all over the world. In this episode, Tara and Stacy discuss strategies that you can use as a business owner to solve problems for your customers. Some highlights include: “I just needed the seed of an idea.” At minute 2:00, Tara talks jumping into business head first without thinking about it and why experimenting is so important. Separate your personal and business finances. At minute 11:00, Tara talks about making this mistake when she started her business and the ill effects that it had for years on her business. Know where your customers are in their awareness. At minute 16:00, Tara talks about this major principle of copywriting that you need to know to market effectively. At minute 21:00, Tara talks about work-life balance and why it doesn’t exist. However, she believes that what she calls work-life integration does exist. “People know how I receive information best.” At minute 32:00, Tara talks about developing a system with your team so they know how to communicate in the way that is most productive for both of you. Ways to contact Tara: Twitter: @taragentile Website: quietpowerstrategy.com *Business Rescue Road Map may be an affiliate or receive compensation from some of the business listed for referrals, as their “thank you” for sending you their way. However, we would never recommend any product or service unless we personally love the product and have great things to say about it. Our reputation is at stake and we would not jeopardize that!

Welcome to another episode of The Zen Courses Show! Today’s guest is Tara Gentile. Tara is the founder of Quiet Power Strategy and taragentile.com. This episode is especially valuable for anyone who struggles with building and audience and knowing what their audience wants to learn. Enjoy! In This Episode, You'll Learn:• How getting turned down for a promotion fueled her start as an entrepreneur• Why she shut down her niche site to create a personal brand• Why she pivoted from 1-on-1 consulting to create her first course• The changes and trends in online courses since 2010, when Tara started teaching online• How offering services can set your online course up for success• Her experience teaching online courses via Creative Live• Strategies Tara uses to understand her audience at a deep level, so she can create better solutions for them• Why you should stop making ideal client profiles (and what to do instead)• How to use social media to research your audience’s problems References and Tools that Tara Mentions:• Quiet Power Strategy • Tara’s personal site: taragentile.com• CreativeLive• Twitter handle: @taragentile Thanks for Listening!If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving an honest review for The Zen Courses Show on iTunes! Ratings and reviews boost ratings & help new listeners find the show. I read every review and I'd love to read yours. Click here to leave a review. And, finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. If you have an Android phone, you can subscribe on Stitcher. Lastly, I want to give a huge THANK YOU to Tara for sharing her story and insights with us on The Zen Courses Show!

What does depression, strategy, financial intelligence and specialization, all have in common? They’re all related to choices. In the case of depression, sometimes feeling like you don’t have any. They’re also topics Tara Gentile and I jam about. Ready? Let’s do this!   Key Takeaways: [0:53] Charlie is delighted to have Tara on the show again. She also joined him on episode 27. [2:21] How did Tara go from a career in an academic track, to being an entrepreneur? How did her depression affect her path? [9:03] What are some of the links between creativity and depression? [11:24] How might not expressing yourself lead to the feeling that you’re denying an important piece of yourself? [14:30] How might the hunger you get as an entrepreneur have a positive effect on depression? [18:26] Tara talks on her ongoing struggle with having to say no to things in order to create what she really wants in the future. [23:13] Charlie and Tara discuss how people’s ultimate goals & what they really want right now often don’t match up, which ties into the importance of choosing to not choose. [29:05] How can you stop business burnout from happening by focusing on things that matter? What is The Content Delusion?  [32:48] What questions does Tara ask when she comes across new tactics, methods or strategies? How does experience tie into this? [36:41] What are some frameworks that allow people to say yes or no very easily?  [42:18] Tara wants to know how Charlie handles the shame that comes up when analyzing what hasn’t worked in the past with his clients. [48:00] A lot of the insecurity and fear that comes up with creative entrepreneurs stems from not looking at the books, plans, and strategies. [49:33] Tara talks about the DailyWorth, which offers financial and career advice for women. [52:27] Tara and Charlie discuss predictability and ‘game changers’.    Mentioned in This Episode: Tara Gentile Episode 27: Leveraging Your Quiet Power with Tara Gentile The Content Delusionby Jonathan Fields DailyWorth - Financial and Career Advice for Women

Nir Eyal is a teacher and author of the best-selling book Hooked: How to build Habit-forming Products. He’s founded and sold two technology companies since 2003, and has been dubbed the “Prophet of habit-forming technologies.” Nir and Tara Gentile spoke about how creating repeat behavior in your customers is a must-do for all businesses, the […] The post Episode 021 – Nir Eyal appeared first on What Works.

Brodie Welch is an acupuncturist, a holistic health counselor, and more! Brodie's wisdom on how she achieved success is something to pay attention to. I was very interested to hear from Brodie on how she came to the decision to expand her business. Brodie was very open throughout the interview and talked about some of the growing pains she has been having since making that decision. She is the perfect example of how you can take a one-to-one business model and convert it to a one-to-many. I hope you like the show and I always welcome feedback on what you think!   Key Insights & Aha Moments: *Brodie was doing what she loved, but it was a little too much. *While Brodie was adjusting to parenting her step kids, she realized quickly her business needed some extra set of hands. *There's never really a 'right' time to hire an extra set of hands, but when you do you'll realize you can bring more to the table. *As a wellness professional, it can become really easy to get lost in the 'hustle' of it all and not be as yen and balanced as you'd like to. *Brodie moved to a town where she didn't know anybody. *Going out and pursuing your personal interests and hobbies helps you meet new people. Tell them about what you do! *Provide people with an incentive to take a risk. Give them a coupon or something similar to make it easy for them to try something new. *Brodie is very interested in providing value to her patients. *People are problem-aware, but might not be solution-aware. *Brodie has invested in a business coach. She believes in shortcuts. You don't need to reinvent the wheel. *Brodie found Quiet Power Strategy, by Tara Gentile to be extremely helpful. The book talks about running a business that matches your lifestyle. *You’re never going to know it all, but you do know enough to help someone. *It was hard for Brodie to get a realistic view on what her true role was as a wellness professional. *Patient education and expectation management is an incredibly important part of the business. *Brodie just launched a class on the basics of Chinese medicine. *Brodie sent out a survey to her mailing list to ask what they wanted from her and she listened to their responses. *It's a different ‘animal’ trying to communicate your message and your trustworthiness through the internet. *Do you ever feel alone in your business?   Maven Moment: Brodie shared with us how she was able to grow her acupuncture practice very quickly and to create a consistent stream of leads in less than six months. How did she do it? Networking in her own community played a critical role to her success. You can apply this as well, by selectively choosing your networking opportunities that place you in a manner that makes you shine! Instead of going to a networking event surrounded by other industry experts, branch out, go to a yoga class or join a book club and get more involved with the community.   Mentioned in This Episode: Quiet Power Strategy by Tara Gentile https://www.facebook.com/groups/966412330044546/   Connect with Brodie: Website Email Facebook

On today’s episode Tara Gentile talks with Brian Clark, founder and CEO of Rainmaker Digital, the company behind Copyblogger, StudioPress, Rainmaker FM, Digital Commerce Institute, and the Rainmaker Platform. Brian began publishing online in 1998, and by 1999 he had his first entrepreneurial success — powered by what is now known as content marketing. Tara […] The post Episode 020 – Brian Clark appeared first on What Works.

Breanne helps micro businesses grow their revenues and their impact by blending adult learning, customer experience and business strategy. Her results-driven strategies help thought-leaders like Chris Guillebeau and Tara Gentile maximize referrals, retention and repeat buyers by creating programs and products that customers can’t stop talking about.

Today’s guest is Tara Gentile’s friend and mastermind buddy Vanessa Van Edwards, an author and behavioral investigator and self-proclaimed recovering awkward person. She is a professional people watcher—speaking, researching and cracking the code of interesting human behavior for audiences around the world. Vanessa’s groundbreaking workshops and courses teach individuals how to succeed in business and […] The post Episode 017 – Vanessa Van Edwards appeared first on What Works.

Amanda Steinberg is the Founder and CEO of Daily Worth and Worth FM. Daily Worth is the leading financial media company for women, and Amanda is a pioneer on the topic of women and money, working to advance women’s financial confidence and wealth. Tara Gentile spoke with Amanda about how traditional investment media is primarily […] The post Episode 016 – Amanda Steinberg appeared first on What Works.

Dane Sanders is joined by business strategist, Tara Gentile, to explore how to create products that sell. They address questions to consider and common mistakes to avoid when building out your big idea. Some of the topics covered: How to create a product people actually want to buy. How to package your product in a way that makes sense to others. The best, first step in marketing. Common mistakes and assumptions to avoid when creating products. Tara Gentile Tara is the creator of Quiet Power Strategy and the founder of CoCommercial, a company specializing in hands-on business training for idea-driven entrepreneurs. She s passionate about helping people with smart ideas make more money, reach new audiences, and live life with ease. Tara is the author of The Art of Earning, Quiet Power Strategy, and The Observation Engine. Tara s work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Design Sponge, and in the New York Times bestselling book The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau. She s a regular instructor on CreativeLive and speaks on entrepreneurship, money, and marketing all over the world. Episode Sponsor: GO: The Converge Summit is a gathering of creatives who want to sharpen their business skills so they can maximize their market. Come be a part of this year s event in beautiful Newport Beach, CA. Links Mentioned on the Show Tara s latest mini ebook: The Observation Engine Tara s books Steps for Creating a Product That Resonates QuietPowerStrategy Taragentile.com Follow Tara on Twitter @taragentile Find her on Facebook Thanks to Triple Scoop Music for providing the music for today s show and thanks to our wonderful audio producer Anna Queza of AQreative. The post Ep. 059 How to Create Products That Sell with Tara Gentile appeared first on Fastermind.co.

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In this episode of the podcast business strategist Tara Gentile talks about how to make your work more compelling and yourself more effective. HIGHLIGHTSDeveloping a Sense of Abundance Living a Priority to Driven Life Where We Inherit Our Beliefs About MoneyDealing with Your Blocks Around MoneyWhy the Notion of a Solo Entrepreneurship is a MythHow Confirmation Bias Gets in Our Way Shifting from an Employee Money Mindset to an Entrepreneurial Money MindsetBuilding a Business Around What Makes You Most Compelling and Effective Taking Action in a Moment of Creative Daring Using the Living Room Strategy to Launch Successful Products How to Find the Main Idea or Ethos of Your Work QUOTES It's focus that allows us to make forward progress very quickly (Click to Tweet) We're often handed the things we've worked really hard for. (Click to Tweet) The things that make us angry have great creative potential (Click to Tweet)PEOPLE AND RESOURCES Quiet Power Strategy Body of Work by Pamela Slim Chris Sacca's Interview with Tim Ferriss Sally Hogshead – Listen to Our Interview with HerTara Gentile is an author and business strategist who works with idea-driven entrepreneurs who want to do more with less. Her clients learn to lead themselves and their businesses based on what makes them most effective and compelling. Tara's work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Design*Sponge, and in the New York Times bestselling book The $100 Startup, by Chris Guillebeau. She's a regular instructor on CreativeLive and speaks on entrepreneurship, money, and the New Economy all over the world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“I think there is something incredibly powerful about taking action. Claiming something that I want for myself, claiming something I want to learn, claiming something I want to create — and then taking action towards that thing. And discovering the result of that step. And doing that repeatedly over time. It almost doesn't matter what we reach for because the act of moving towards what we want is transformative in and of itself. “That's probably the biggest thing I learned from CreativeLive. That results are not as important as all the activities we put into our lives to move towards those results. “Because life is not lived in the results. Life is lived in the actions and the pursuit.” This was from a conversation with Tara Gentile (now Tara McMullin) for the first episode of her Power. Profit. Pursuit. podcast (now the What Works podcast). So much has changed in the six years ago since we talked in the CreativeLive podcast recording room, surrounded by an amazing sound dampening Book Mural by Mike Oncley. There were many quotes I wanted to pull out from that conversation, but this one resonates with me for the coming decade. It is the actions we take in pursuing our dreams that mean more to our lives than the dreams themselves. --- Podcast: What Works with Tara McMullin Episode: Profit Power Pursuit: CreativeLive Co-Founders Website: https://explorewhatworks.com/whatworks/

Talking Shop with Theresa and Bri: Ready, Set - GROW! with special guest Tara Gentile. Want to grow your metaphysical business in a way that makes you happy (and makes sense)? We’re getting schooled on how to do just that with our favorite business coach, Tara Gentile! (Originally aired January 28, 2015)

Hey guys and welcome, to The Angry Millennial Show! This episode will help guide you on the binge-listen adventure you're about to embark on. My name's Jose Rosado and I'm your show creator + host. Now what we've attempted to do from the start of the show was to give our listeners engaging, thought-provoking content to help them on their own creative journey, but as fans ourselves, we knew that we needed to ask questions our guests have never been asked before, dive into topics deeper than ever before, + get to know our guests better than ever before, all for you guys—AM Nation. On this show, you'll hear from photographers, screenwriters, authors, directors, cinematographers, comedians, magicians, recording artists, makers, builders, + more. As for what you can expect from The Angry Millennial, you'll get explicit, in-depth interviews from some of the most well-known, respected + bad-ass people in the creative industry. In this series you'll hear from guests like - Photographers: Chase Jarvis, Jeremy Cowart, Jeff Rojas, + Dixie Dixon. Film Industry Pro's: Director Spencer Gillis, Actor Chris Sullivan of The Knick, Stranger Things and GoTG2, + Screenwriter Tab Murphy. Entrepreneurs: Everette Taylor, Kim Kaupe, Sam Aquillano, + Tara Gentile. Makers + Builders: Michael Paul Smith, David Beattie, + Paul Rich. Podcasters: John Lee Dumas, Allison Behringer, + Brandon Harvey. Yet, folks, that's just the first 100 episodes! After Ep100, we'll be switching to a new seasonal format where we tackle specific industries across 20-episode seasons partnering up with some amazing brands to bring The Angry Millennial Show to a whole new level, so stay tuned! Now that we've covered everything the show is and what the show will be, let's sign off to let you all get to it. With that said, be sure to check out theangrymillennialshow.com to get the latest on the show, sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date, and make sure to use the robust search feature on the home page if you're looking for a specific guest or topic we've covered. And lastly, as always, if you've enjoyed the show, PLEASE be sure to leave us a review on iTunes letting us know what you think + what you enjoyed about the show so we can continue to make it the best it can be. Enjoy!

We all know, it's a noisy world. There is a constant flow of content being created and consumed. You can stand out from the noise, by tapping into what makes you effective and compelling. You can use your quiet power to separate yourself from the noise! Tara Gentile is a business strategist and the author of Quiet Power Strategy. She works with entrepreneurs and idea people to help them leverage their Quiet Power and build businesses that generate wealth, peace, and ease. Tara's work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Design*Sponge, and in the New York Times bestselling book The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau. She's a regular instructor on CreativeLive and speaks on entrepreneurship, money, and the New Economy all over the world.

Tara Gentile is a very smart entrepreneur who s just published a short, affordable book on one of my favorite topics listening. It's a critical skill for developing products and services. Once I got into the product and software game, I started with an audience, rather than the product or service. This gave me a... Listen to episode

Breanne helps micro businesses grow their revenues and their impact by blending adult learning, customer experience and business strategy. Her results-driven strategies help thought-leaders like Chris Guillebeau and Tara Gentile maximize referrals, retention and repeat buyers by creating programs and products that customers can't stop talking about.

Check out RailsClips and RemoteConfs!   01:14 - Breanne Dyck Introduction Twitter My Name Is Breanne: Master the Business of Teaching Online 02:13 - Transitioning: Contracting => Teaching Courses Content Marketing 05:59 - Structuring Content Deep vs Wide Business Model 10:19 - Where do you start? 13:05 - Getting Results Levels of Mastery Surface-Level Learning Higher-Level Mastery Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra Spectrum of Confidence/Competence      The Backwards Brain Bicycle 24:15 - Setting People Up to Succeed Pilots, Alpha and Beta Phases Outcomes and Objectives 80/20 Rule (Pareto Principle)     33:57 - Should I charge for pilots? (Pricing) Ramit Sethi 35:39 - Experimentation > Textbook/Traditional Learning 43:22 - Selecting Content For Your Course The 5 Whys Technique Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug 52:50 - Getting and Keeping People Interested in Your Courses Through Completion Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) Passive Participants The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg Planning For Success Picks The Art of Outbound Lead Generation by Blair Enns (Eric) Is Positioning Professional Services Different Than Products? Al Ries Explains (Eric) Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra (Eric) remoteconfs.com (Chuck) God (Chuck) Jesus Christ (Chuck) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Chuck) Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina (Breanne) Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage Kindle Edition by Vicki Halsey (Breanne) Quiet Power Strategy by Tara Gentile (Breanne) Your Perfect Participant: Unlock What Buyers Want & Need From You by Breanne Dyck (Breanne)

Check out RailsClips and RemoteConfs!   01:14 - Breanne Dyck Introduction Twitter My Name Is Breanne: Master the Business of Teaching Online 02:13 - Transitioning: Contracting => Teaching Courses Content Marketing 05:59 - Structuring Content Deep vs Wide Business Model 10:19 - Where do you start? 13:05 - Getting Results Levels of Mastery Surface-Level Learning Higher-Level Mastery Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra Spectrum of Confidence/Competence      The Backwards Brain Bicycle 24:15 - Setting People Up to Succeed Pilots, Alpha and Beta Phases Outcomes and Objectives 80/20 Rule (Pareto Principle)     33:57 - Should I charge for pilots? (Pricing) Ramit Sethi 35:39 - Experimentation > Textbook/Traditional Learning 43:22 - Selecting Content For Your Course The 5 Whys Technique Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug 52:50 - Getting and Keeping People Interested in Your Courses Through Completion Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) Passive Participants The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg Planning For Success Picks The Art of Outbound Lead Generation by Blair Enns (Eric) Is Positioning Professional Services Different Than Products? Al Ries Explains (Eric) Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra (Eric) remoteconfs.com (Chuck) God (Chuck) Jesus Christ (Chuck) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Chuck) Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina (Breanne) Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage Kindle Edition by Vicki Halsey (Breanne) Quiet Power Strategy by Tara Gentile (Breanne) Your Perfect Participant: Unlock What Buyers Want & Need From You by Breanne Dyck (Breanne)

In this episode of Being Boss, Emily and Kathleen welcome special guest, Tara Gentile. Tara is a business strategist and coach for creative entrepreneurs to help them grow their influence in a way that works toward your unique communication strengths. She's also the author of The Art of Earning, The Art of Growth, and Quiet Power Strategy.

Tara Gentile is an author and business strategist, who works with entrepreneurs and helps them design their personal “quiet power strategy” that will tap into their strengths and help them lead themselves where they want to go. She teaches her clients how to find what makes them most effective. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Design Sponge, and in the bestselling book The $100 Startup. She is also an instructor and speaker, teaching about entrepreneurship, money, and the new economy. She joins Charlie on the show today to talk about her journey and her work and share some of her insights on the entrepreneurial world.    Key Takeaways: 01:40 – How Tara got started doing what she does. 06:28 – The hardest lessons Tara learned during her first years of business. 09:58 – How Tara’s background in religious studies helped and also didn’t help in her early years of business. 13:23 – Figuring out how what you create aligns with people’s worldviews and with their needs and with their values. 14:29 – Entrepreneurs realizing that they’re solving the same problem everyone else is solving, but doing it in a way that’s completely unique to you. 15:42 – What Kick Start Labs is all about. 18:40 – How Tara balances being an introvert and doing the work that she does. 23:51 – How being a control freak can get in the way of being an entrepreneur and navigating a business. 28:37 – Moments in Tara’s career that made her know for sure this was what she wanted to be doing. 34:33 – What Tara is afraid of right now in her work.  37:57 – The most unanticipated challenge Tara is currently facing. 39:30 – Leverage what’s most effective for you.   Mentioned In This Episode: Quiet Power Strategy Fast Company Forbes Design Sponge The New York Times The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau CreativeLive Lebanon Valley College Borders Books and Music Kick Start Labs Etsy Pioneer Nation

If you ask yourself the questions, How can I be of service? How can I be of value? You can see an opportunity to do that anywhere. If you are reading this I think it s safe to assume that you have some sort of skills, passion and talent and you want to find a way to make money from those things. To do that we often dream up a way to package those skills, passion and talent then put them out for the world to consume. What if we listened to our clients first? Listen in as Dane talks with customer obsessed, business strategist, Tara Gentile. As Tara s career has progressed over the years it may look a bit haphazard at first glance. If you take a second look it is evident that as her career has evolved the constant thread line is her focus on her customer. She is always looking for ways she can serve them, meet their needs and bring value based on her skills, passion and talent. The result of her outward focus on the real need of her customer has opened up all sorts of opportunity. This episode is sure to leave you with lots to consider about how you are relating to your customers. You also have an opportunity to take a concrete next step in learning how to better listen and consider your customer by checking out Tara s Perspective Map, a really helpful free resource she has available over on her site. Thanks to Triple Scoop Music for providing the music for today s show and thanks to our wonderful audio producer Anna Queza of AQreative. The post Ep. 019 Customer Obsessed with Tara Gentile appeared first on Fastermind.co.

Part of living a life “on purpose” is running your business (or work life) in a deliberate manner. Life on Purpose Episode #11 is great conversation with Tara Gentile, a business strategist and coach for creatives, idea people, and professionals who want to leverage their Quiet Power and devise a strategy for growth without the heartache or hassle. She’s the author of The Art of Earning and Quiet Power Strategy. About: Every day, you add more marketing tactics, product ideas, and goals to your notebook. You’re distracted from your purpose and drained by all the options. All the while, your big idea—that thing you really want to be working on–is waiting. And the more you lose yourself and your idea in the weeds, the more likely you are to fail. The good news is that there’s a better way to run your business: yours. Your Quiet Power Strategy™ taps into your strengths and gives you the ability to lead yourself where you want to go. It’s a plan for What You Want to Create and How You Want to Connect–and how that’s going to lead to the business growth that brings you the wealth, peace, and ease you crave. To learn more about Tara and her work, visit: http://taragentile.com.

Today’s Guest I originally discovered Tara Gentile, today's guest, on Natalie Sisson's Suitcase Entrepreneur podcast...I think. I feel like I've been following her on social media forever. I absolutely love what she does, and she's been on my list of women to invite to this podcast for some time. After recently reading her fabulous book The Art of Earning, I invited her to be a guest on this show. About Tara Gentile Tara Gentile is a customer-obsessed business strategist who works with a global clientele on making a bigger impact with their businesses for less heartache. She’s the creator of Kick Start Labs, a microbusiness community and resource library where over 200 members support each other in navigating the New Economy. She’s also the founder of CoCommercial in Astoria, Oregon–a coworking and education space for independent works and thinkers. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, DailyWorth, Design Sponge, creativeLIVE, SXSW, Etsy, and the New York Times bestselling book, $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau. Tara brings a brainy, experimental, and curious perspective to business-building for coaches, designers, doctors, makers, writers, and others looking to make their art–broadly defined–into a healthy, sustainable business. She plays at the intersection of Silicon Valley and Main Street. Tara’s love of business and her obsession with customers grow out of a background in religious studies. She’s inspired by a drive to understand how other people see and interact with the world around them. She writes, speaks, and consults on the New Economy–the emerging shift from consumer culture to creator culture. What You’ll Learn Tara's top tips on who to get a big picture perspective on your business How a degree in religion helped her build a business (yes, you read that right) Why using her name as her brand changed everything How to be proactive, not reactive (as so many of us are!) Why positioning is one of the most overlooks parts of marketing Inspiring Women in Business Amanda Steinberg of The Daily Worth Nilofer Merchant Sally Hogshead Things We Discussed 10ThousandFeet 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era The Fascination Advantage System Connect With Tara Website Facebook Twitter Instagram [SHP 58] How to See the Big Picture in Your Business, with Tara Gentile http://wp.me/p3QOiq-KW #podcast

“Stop telling people you're going to charge what you're worth and instead, charge what your work is worth.” This was the simple yet brilliant advice from my guest this week, Tara Gentile. Tara Gentile is a brilliant business strategist that helps small business owners capitalize on their big ideas. And today's episode contains some incredible strategy + actionable guidance on […] The post Episode 40: Stop Trying To Charge What You're Worth with Tara Gentile first appeared on Michael Knouse.

http://fizzleshow.co/49 - There's one question that can get to the heart of whether what you're working on is a soon-to-be-failed side project or a business with a good shot at financial success. In this episode you get to hear a handful of experienced entrepreneurs, people who are *actually* earning a living doing something they care about (in many cases a *handsome* living), answer that question. You'll hear from Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income, John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur on Fire, Rob Walling, Tara Gentile, Jason Glaspey, and Steve Kamb. Enjoy!

In this episode, professional consultant Tara Gentile talks about what it takes for creatives to thrive in the new economy, challenging the assumptions we have about work/life balance, the starving artist mythos, and true personal success. Sound Editor: Leo Madriz  Photos courtesy Tara Gentile  Music: Aretha Franklin, Soulville, 1968