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Heidi Klum is a German-American model, television host, producer, and businesswoman. She appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1998 and was the first German model to become a Victoria's Secret Angel. Sofía Vergara is a Colombian and American actress and television personality. She is known for her role as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in the ABC sitcom Modern Family and Griselda Blanco in the Netflix miniseries Griselda. Visit Sofia Vergara OFFICIAL Website here for more: https://www.sofiavergara.com/ Howie Mandel Does Stuff available on every podcast platform Howie Mandel Does Stuff Merchandise available on Amazon.com here https://www.amazon.com/shop/howiemandeldoesstuff Join the "Official Howie Mandel Does Stuff" Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HowieMandelPodcast/ Thanks to our Sponsors: Aspen Islanders' Sheer Mineral Sport is an SPF50 that uses zinc oxide but with no white pastiness – or harsh chemicals. So you look great wearing it. Plus it's made to endure anything, out on the boat, in the mountains, on the golf course, at the beach. It's like the secret agent of sunscreens—suave, effective, and it leaves no trace. Get Outside, Get Moving, Get Connected with code 'HOWIE10' for 10% off at aspenislanders.com Naturally It's Clean's cleaning products use a unique ingredient called enzymes. They are a natural, plant-based protein that destroys down organic material into basic elements including carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. They're like little soldiers that target organic soils – starch, fats, food, grease, and oil to help make your house not just clean, but Howie clean! Use code 'HOWIE15' for 15% off at naturallyitsclean.com TeuxDeux is a simple, easy-to-use tool that helps you keep track of what's important, without all the extra noise. Tasks that don't get done today? They roll over to tomorrow — no guilt, no stress. Just a gentle nudge to keep you on track. Get 50% off a yearly subscription to TeuxDeux with the code ‘HOWIE50' at teuxdeux.com Say Hello to our new house band Sunny and the Black Pack! Follow them here! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BlackMediaPresents TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blackmediapresents Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/01uFmntCHwOW438t7enYOO?si=0Oc-_QJdQ0CrMkWii42BWA&nd=1&dlsi=a9792af062844b4f Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SunnyAndTheBlackPack/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackmediapresents/ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/blackmediapresents Twitter: twitter.com/blackmedia Uh Oh... I'M SORRY Heidi Klum & Sofia Vergara | Howie Mandel Does Stuff with Jackelyn Shultz #207 https://youtu.be/RZVTSUK3i-4 @heidiklum @sofiavergara @howiemandel @jackelynshultz
We sat down with Jennifer Liao, cofounder and CEO of MìLà, a direct-to-consumer, modern Chinese food company based in Washington. In 2018, Jen left her career in healthtech behind to open a brick-and-mortar restaurant serving street foods she grew up loving that couldn't easily be found in the Seattle area. A pivot to local deliveries during the pandemic opened up a new perspective on what the business could be and has since grown into a viral sensation, shipping more than 10 million dumplings nationwide and is setting their sights on grocery store aisles next. With a successful round of fundraising in the books, a recent rebrand, and endorsement/investment from Marvel star Simu Liu, Jennifer shares her vision for what MìLà can do and represent. Learn more about MìLà at eatmila.com. Save 20% on TeuxDeux with code SOMEDAYLIST.
This month, we got to chat with Aishwarya Iyer, founder and CEO of Brightland, a company known for its beautifully bottled olive oils, vinegars, and other pantry essentials. Launched in 2018, Brightland turned the olive oil category on its head by eschewing its trademark green for bold, bright colors and putting quality, trust, and traceability at the forefront of their company. They've graced the kitchens of celebrities like Oprah, Florence Pugh, and Gwyneth Paltrow, and we had the chance to catch up with Aishwarya about what her founder journey's been like. Learn more about Brightland at brightland.co and @wearebrightland Follow Aishwarya at @helloaishwarya and check out her new podcast, Recent Eats. Save 20% on TeuxDeux with code SOMEDAYLIST.
Today we're sitting down with Karen Chee, a comedian and writer who's worked at Late Night with Seth Meyers since 2019, more written for season two of Apple TV's Pachinko, and was included in Vulture's Comedians to Know, Variety's Young Hollywood list, and Forbes 30 under 30. We talk about starting her comedy career on such a big stage, dealing with impostor syndrome, and what's at stake in the Writers' Strike. Follow @karencheee on Instagram or check out her site. Learn more about the WGA strike at wgacontract2023.org Save 20% on TeuxDeux with code SOMEDAYLIST.
This month, we sat down with Kyle Smitley, a leader who built her first startup while finishing law school, and for the past ten years has dedicated her career to education as the founder and executive director of Detroit Achievement Academy and Detroit Prep, free public charter schools that have garnered national attention for their holistic approach to student development. The schools' commitment to closing opportunity gaps has shown up in different ways, like diverting school resources to supporting families with groceries and utilities during the pandemic, investing in teachers' health and wellness, and open-sourcing their operations for others interested in starting schools. Not one to idle, Smitley has spent her downtime over the last three years building Louis Kitchenware, a community-driven, investor-free cookware company celebrating the everyday, home cook. Learn more about Kyle's work at the links below: https://www.detroitachievement.org/ https://www.detroitprep.org/ https://www.louiskitchenware.com/ Or follow along @kylesmitley on Instagram. Save 20% on TeuxDeux with code SOMEDAYLIST.
This month, we're sitting down with Alice Katter, the founder of Out of Office Network, a community-driven research and design lab focused on the interplay between work and life. Alice has led efforts at companies like Dropbox and WorkingNotWorking to build community programs and connection, particularly in the face of remote work. Follow Out of Office Network on Instagram @outofoffice.network or visit the site at getoutofoffice.network. Save 20% on TeuxDeux with code SOMEDAYLIST.
For our final interview of the year, we have something pretty special: a conversation between two co-creators of TeuxDeux. In our season one closer of Someday List, Cameron Koczon (Fictive Kin) sits down to interview Tina Roth Eisenberg, perhaps better known as SwissMiss, the creative force behind CreativeMornings, founder of Tattly, and of course, the co-creator of TeuxDeux. Together, they talk about building heart-open companies, learning to let go as a founder, and creating a sustainable work-life balance while running multiple businesses and parenting, on top of a global pandemic. Follow Tina on Twitter @swissmiss or on her blog. Join the world's largest face-to-face creative community, CreativeMornings.
The Interview: On this episode of Willow Talk, we share how time management has evolved for each of us over the past few years. Reflecting on our old routines, we get deep into how empathy and redefining productivity has been a catalyst for our work and passion as creatives - with The House of Willows, and our own mediums. We Also Talk About: - Stories about how we've personally and professionally been struggling with time management and how this impacts our work and mental health - How we have improved our our time managements skills - The importance of the environment we work and spend our times in - Prioritizing self preservations with breaks and boundaries - Work management platforms: Asana, TeuxDeux, day planners, prioritization matrices Wanna be the first? Sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know about events, updates and the latest news from our artists! More here: Join our Patreon Be featured on our Instagram www.thehouseofwillows.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/willow-talk/support
About a year ago, we had a little too much in common with a 24-hour dinner. Not in the way of aging fluorescent lighting or the smell of greasy french fries—but if you walked into our house any time before 5pm, it's likely that there was a pot of coffee on. 4am wake up? Time for a coffee. 10am mid morning slump? _Don't mind if I do. _ 2pm post-lunch debate: nap or coffee? _How much is too much? _ And on really exhausting days, Davey was known to mix a little pre-workout in. If you're keeping track, that's a LOT of caffeine. Thankfully, these days we've found a few alternate ways to stay organized, energized and focused throughout the day. Not only do the methods we're about to discuss help us stay focused on summer days when the pool is calling our names, but they also help us avoid burnout. Find it quickly: 4:17 - Krista's Organization tips (TeuxDeux) 8:15 - Block Scheduling 11:41 - Cutting out coffee 14:01 - Carnivore Diet 17:40 - Exercise, Learn Something New, Do Something Fun 18:15 - Stay Hydrated (and add electrolytes) 20:30 - Short periods of work time 22:01 - Remove Slack & Email from Your Phone 23:02 - Davey's task board For show notes and other resources, check out https://daveyandkrista.com/organized-energized-focused-tips/.
A quick introduction to our new podcast, Someday List. Every month, we'll be sitting down with our favorite creatives, founders, and all-around interesting people to talk about what they're doing, how they got there, and what they want to tackle next.
This episode of The Relentless features a conversation about how we can go above and beyond the expected to create truly unique customer experiences. Host Kristen Meinzer talks with Tina Roth Eisenberg, a successful entrepreneur who epitomizes an imaginative and intuitive approach to business. Her diverse collection of enterprises include a co-working space, the temporary tattoo company Tattly, a to-do list app, and an extraordinary lecture series and community called CreativeMornings, which has become a global phenomenon. You'll also hear from Greg Harrelson, a leading CENTURY 21 Broker and entrepreneur who built a top-performing team by prioritizing coaching and empowering his agents to deliver the best customer experience possible. Guests: Tina Roth Eisenberg, founder of the creative coworking community FRIENDS, global lecture series CreativeMornings, to-do app TeuxDeux, and high-end temporary tattoo shop, Tattly. Greg Harrelson, top performing Broker and President of CENTURY 21 The Harrelson Group, and host of the Level Up podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on the Scale Your Small Business Podcast, we're talking about everyone's favorite: iPhone Apps. We're diving into some of the most useful, efficient, and effective apps available that you can start using today (and keep using from now on) to run your business. The first app on the list is Calendly. Calendly allows you to create completely customizable appointments based on timeframe, topic, or any other category you can think of. You can decide what is public or private--whatever you need it to do, it'll do it. Next up is 1Password. This app is exactly what it says--it's one password. You can create different ‘vaults' for contractors, allowing them controlled access to what they need to work. You're always able to revoke access at any time without worrying about changing passwords. Another app to use is called MileIQ. MileIQ captures your drives automatically. The app runs in the background on your phone, tracking your miles and creating a comprehensive record. At the end of the year, you can print off a report that has all your mileage. Slack is an easy, consistent way to stay in touch with your team wherever you go. This messaging app lets you keep track of what's going on even when you aren't at a computer. Google Calendar is another big one--it has an immense amount of uses and allows you to connect with so many different scheduling apps. It's a clean, efficient way to see all your appointments in one place. Dropbox is an incredible storage platform that allows you to share and store large files. They even have an app that allows you to upload directly from your phone to your team all over the world. Remitly is an app that allows you to transfer money into your employee's bank account without lag-time. You can send money overseas conveniently and securely. Asana is a powerful platform that lets you layout projects step-by-step and assign tasks to individual members of your team. Rev.com is an app and website where you can upload media and they will transcribe it automatically. This is a great tool when you're on the go and want to have a transcription made of a presentation or project you're proposing. Evernote allows you to take pictures of your planner pages and catalog them digitally. In conjunction with Scannable, you can have a library of ideas at your fingertips. An app that helps deliver content on time and consistently is Hootsuite. This app lets you schedule posts over a huge timeframe. TeuxDeux is a powerful, incredibly clean app that lets you schedule recurring tasks on your to-do list. If you're an Apple fan, AppleNotes is a great utility app to have on hand to copy-paste important links, content, and ideas. Apple products on the whole have seamless connectivity that helps you keep a consistently smooth process to running a business. Key Takeaways Apps can help you make your current processes better, and introduce improved methods of running your business. Find and try apps that work best for what your needs are. Pick and choose how you use them. Apple products on the whole have seamless connectivity that helps you keep a consistently smooth process to running a business.
We're kicking off Season 2 with a conversation about how we can go above and beyond the expected to create truly unique customer experiences. Host Kristen Meinzer talks with Tina Roth Eisenberg, a successful entrepreneur who epitomizes an imaginative and intuitive approach to business. Her diverse collection of enterprises include a co-working space, the temporary tattoo company Tattly, a to-do list app, and an extraordinary lecture series and community called CreativeMornings, which has become a global phenomenon. You'll also hear from Greg Harrelson, a leading CENTURY 21 Broker and entrepreneur who built a top-performing team by prioritizing coaching and empowering his agents to deliver the best customer experience possible. Guests: Tina Roth Eisenberg, founder of the creative coworking community FRIENDS, global lecture series CreativeMornings, to-do app TeuxDeux, and high-end temporary tattoo shop, Tattly. Greg Harrelson, top performing Broker and President of CENTURY 21 The Harrelson Group, and host of the Level Up podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We’re kicking off Season 2 with a conversation about how we can go above and beyond the expected to create truly unique customer experiences. Host Kristen Meinzer talks with Tina Roth Eisenberg, a successful entrepreneur who epitomizes an imaginative and intuitive approach to business. Her diverse collection of enterprises include a co-working space, the temporary tattoo company Tattly, a to-do list app, and an extraordinary lecture series and community called CreativeMornings, which has become a global phenomenon. You’ll also hear from Greg Harrelson, a leading CENTURY 21 Broker and entrepreneur who built a top-performing team by prioritizing coaching and empowering his agents to deliver the best customer experience possible. Guests: Tina Roth Eisenberg, founder of the creative coworking community FRIENDS, global lecture series CreativeMornings, to-do app TeuxDeux, and high-end temporary tattoo shop, Tattly. Greg Harrelson, top performing Broker and President of CENTURY 21 The Harrelson Group, and host of the Level Up podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We're kicking off Season 2 with a conversation about how we can go above and beyond the expected to create truly unique customer experiences. Host Kristen Meinzer talks with Tina Roth Eisenberg, a successful entrepreneur who epitomizes an imaginative and intuitive approach to business. Her diverse collection of enterprises include a co-working space, the temporary tattoo company Tattly, a to-do list app, and an extraordinary lecture series and community called CreativeMornings, which has become a global phenomenon. You'll also hear from Greg Harrelson, a leading CENTURY 21 Broker and entrepreneur who built a top-performing team by prioritizing coaching and empowering his agents to deliver the best customer experience possible. Guests: Tina Roth Eisenberg, founder of the creative coworking community FRIENDS, global lecture series CreativeMornings, to-do app TeuxDeux, and high-end temporary tattoo shop, Tattly. Greg Harrelson, top performing Broker and President of CENTURY 21 The Harrelson Group, and host of the Level Up podcast.
"Enthusiasm is incredibly infectious, and people just want to ride that wave. It makes you feel good. That's kind of how I roll in the world." - Tina Roth-Eisenberg, SheEO Activator + founder of CreativeMornings In this episode: Join Vicki Saunders and Tina Roth-Eisenberg, SheEO Activator, as they discuss Tina's heart-centered approach to conducting business. Tina Roth-Eisenberg is a Swiss designer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for founding the Swiss Miss design blog and studio. She is also the founder of Friends Work Here, CreativeMornings, TeuxDeux and Tattly. Vicki and Tina also touch on: The benefit of starting projects from a pure, heart-driven place Establishing and growing CreativeMornings, and allowing people the trust and freedom to create magic Using radical generosity as a "business model" and bringing the best in people forward Her spiritual upbringing and experience with holistic healing and energy Recognizing and acknowledging our own limiting beliefs The idea of "settling into your wisdom" How her businesses have adapted to COVID-19 We invite you to join us as an Activator at SheEO.World. Take action & engage with Tina Roth-Eisenberg and Swiss Miss: https://www.swiss-miss.com https://twitter.com/swissmiss https://www.instagram.com/swissmiss https://www.linkedin.com/in/swissmiss
“The best way to complain is to make things.” -James Murphy. This is the title of a 5-minute video I want to tell you about: Tina Roth Eisenberg: The Best Way to Complain is to Make Things - video. Tina founded and runs Tattly, CreativeMornings, TeuxDeux and her Brooklyn based co-working space Friends (formerly Studiomates). I love Tina's line about her company Tattly: “It’s amazing what can happen when you fall into an industry you know nothing about because your ignorance actually makes you question conventions that nobody else would question.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Since the early 00s boom in productivity optimization, in this episode's guest John Zeratsky has seen how much our relationship with time has evolved. As a writer and speaker, John is on a mission to help people make time for what matters. How do you manage your time? There’s no one-size-fits-all tactic, but John Zeratsky's latest book https://www.amazon.com/Make-Time-Focus-Matters-Every/dp/0525572422 (‘Make Time’) runs through tried and tested approaches for us to cherry pick, so I was super excited to catch up with him and run through some of these exercises. Tune in as we discuss reflection time, the power of default settings and breaking bad habits with friction. John’s quest for mastering time management was born from his career in design, web development and copywriting. He’s worked with numerous startups including Netflix, Slack, Airbnb, Uber, 23andMe and Medium, and his writing has appeared in publications like Wall Street Journal, Wired and Fast Company. Talking Points How he formed his partnership with Jake Knapp and where their fascination of time came from (1:01) Making everything in the book simple and doable (6:58) Approaching work as a designer (8:24) Distinction between simple and easy (12:10) The role of friction and how it breaks habits (22:09) What ground hogging means to John (23:53) What is a time crater and what are the time craters John struggles with? (30:52) Taking caffeine naps to boost energy (34:41) The first productivity app John ever used (37:42) Quote "When it comes to our own time, this finite precious resource that we have, we don't often look back and say, what did I really do today?"Helpful Links https://www.amazon.com/Make-Time-Focus-Matters-Every/dp/0525572422 (Make Time | Amazon) https://jakeknapp.com/ (Jake Knapp) https://maketime.blog/ (Time Dorks) https://www.gv.com/ (Google Ventures) https://www.thesprintbook.com/how (Design Sprint Process) https://www.amazon.com/Jake-Knapp/dp/150112174X/ (Design Sprint | Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0143126563/ (Getting Things Done | Amazon) https://productivityist.com/podcast203/ (Episode 203: The Evolution of Getting Things Done with David Allen) https://productivityist.com/podcast229/ (Episode 229: Exploring Digital Minimalism with Cal Newport) https://www.sleepcycle.com/ (Sleep Cycle) http://www.43folders.com/ (43 Folders) https://www.amazon.com/Indistractable-Control-Your-Attention-Choose/dp/1526610205/ (Indistractable | Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Simulation-Headspace-Subscription-HF3520/dp/B0093162RM (Philips Wake Up Alarm Clock) https://austinkleon.com/2017/10/13/how-to-take-a-nap/ (Austin Kleon’s caffeine nap) https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/10868/mori (Mori App) https://teuxdeux.com/ (TeuxDeux) https://maketime.blog/ (MakeTime.blog) http://productivityist.com/fivedollars/ (Take my 30 Days of TimeCrafting fundamentals course) Want to discover some of the books mentioned on the podcast? https://www.scribd.com/g/9a8d8 (Check out Scribd, my reading app of choice.) Podcast Theme Song: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/eFDGyraN87 (Nothing at All by Fictions (courtesy of Epidemic Sound)) If you enjoyed the episode, please leave a rating and/or review wherever you listened to the episode. And if you want to have easy access to the archives of the show and ensure you don't miss the new episodes to come then subscribe to the podcast in the app you're using – or you can do so on a variety of podcast platforms by clicking https://productivityist.transistor.fm/subscribe (here).
Podcast 121 This week we have a question all about apps and choosing the best combination of apps for you. Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website Productivity Masterclass | Create Your Own Custom Workflow Carl's YouTube Channel The FREE Beginners Guide To Building Your Own COD System Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes The Carl Pullein Learning Centre The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page Script Episode 121 Hello and welcome to episode 121 of the Working With Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein and I am your host for this show. This week it's all about which apps to choose for your productivity system and how to choose them. With apps like Wunderlist and Newton Mail closing down, this week has been a timely reminder that the apps we choose for our system are important. Choose the wrong apps and you spend a lot of time having to transfer your information from one app to another when it closes down or becomes too expensive to manage. Choose the right app and your system and the app can now together. But before we get into this week's question don't forget if you are ready to move beyond the to-do list my Productivity Masterclass Workflow course will do that for you. This is a brand new course designed to teach you how to create workflows in your day so you create enough time to focus on the things you want to focus on. Full details of the course are in this week's show notes. Okay, it's now time for me to hand you over to the mystery podcast voice for this week's question. This week's question comes from Myke. Myke asks: Hi Carl, I am a very heavy Apple user, and I love their products. I think they could be the key to my productivity if utilised properly. I have an iMac at home, and iMac at work, a MacBook pro for when on the go, an iPad, and an iPhone - as well as multiple Homepods throughout my home. What productivity "stack" would you recommend for someone like myself? Thank you Myke for your question. I've always felt the benefit of sticking with built-in apps is you are much less likely to have an app you rely on shut down on you. Just in the last couple of weeks, I've received notifications about two popular apps closing down. Wunderlist and Newton Mail (again) and this is certainly something that concerns me. Part of building a productivity system is consistency. The amount of time it takes to not only get your stuff into a system, and that time can be a lot, a more important element is the trust you have for that system. If you don't trust your system then it is not working. This means if you are planning on using third-party apps you need to make sure the apps you are using the companies behind them are structurally and financially sound. A couple of years ago I used Newton Mail as my email app of choice. It was wonderfully simple and minimalist and it had everything I needed in an email app. Then I got a notification to say they were closing down. Several months later, I was told they were starting up again and this time it would be different because they had a big financial backer. And then last week we were told they were closing down again. Fortunately, this time I was not going to make the same mistake so did not return to Newton. I set up Apple Mail on all my devices and while there are a few features that are lacking such as scheduled sending which I did use in Newton, it was no big deal and scheduled sending is rather less important than having an app that will not go away. Apple Mail has been a Mail app I have used for nearly twenty years and it is solid and dependable. I also know a lot of people who invested time and effort into Wunderlist and we now know that will be closing down in May. That has been on the horizon for a while now, but the end date is finally approaching and if you are a Wunderlist user you only have three months to migrate to another app. This makes things difficult for other app developers. Trust is a big issue for anyone wanting to build a strong productivity system and if there is any uncertainty then people are not going to invest their time and money in an app that may or may not be around in five years time. Evernote is an app that I have used for over ten years. It has always been solid, dependable and has been a huge part of my digital life. Unfortunately, these days their lack of development and the competitive state of the notes app market with apps like Notion, Bear Notes and Apple Notes have created a huge mountain for it to climb if it wants to get back to being one of the top note-taking apps. The good news is Evernote is apparently cash positive and it does have a loyal following. My worry is if the updated Evernote does not meet customer expectations (which are incredibly high after more than a year of back end development) what happens next? I have found Evernote difficult to use on my iPhone since iOS13 came out so I have been using Apple Notes more and more and have now found workarounds for many of the things I used to do in Evernote that Apple Notes cannot do. Until recently, Evernote was one of the first apps I opened in a morning on my computer, now I open is only a couple of time per week. Personally I hope and pray Evernote's impending update will not disappoint, but if it does I already have a replacement at the ready. So what can we do? Well if you want to be completely protected the best advice I can give is go with the built-in apps. That means if you are in the Apple ecosystem where possible use the Apple apps. Apple Notes is a serious contender in the notes app market now. It's free and has an impressive set of features. The Apple Reminders update last September gave this built-in to-do list some much-needed love and now has quite an impressive feature set And Apple Calendar has been a solid calendar app for over twenty years. There are a few features it could do with, like the ability to allow people to book times on a public calendar, but it is a very dependable calendar app. Microsoft has a solid set of productivity apps too. Outlook is the industry standard for most companies when it comes to email and calendar and OneNote is one of the best note-taking apps out there. For your To-dos, Microsoft To-Do is likely to become a solid to-do list manager in the near future, particularly if it does incorporate many of the features Wunderlist had. And of course, Google has it's own Tasks and Keep and has probably the best calendar app out there The problem with using these built-in mainstream apps is you do not get a lot of features and if something does not work properly it can be a long time before they are updated. But they are unlikely to disappear, they are simple to set up and simple to use. And in my experience, it does not take a lot of time to learn how to use them. That said, the biggest thing to remember is the app you use is rather less important than the system you set up. As long as the apps you are using are dependable and you allow enough time to learn how to use them then almost any app out there is going to do the job for you. App switching is time-wasting and can be a huge cause of procrastination. I've always said pick one app and stick with it for a year. That gives you enough time to learn how to use it properly and develop workarounds for the things you want to be able to do with it. My recent organisational change in my to-do list manager could easily be created in any type of app. So far I have shown how to set it up in Apple Reminders and Todoist and in the coming weeks, I plan to show how this could be set up in Trello and TeuxDeux. These apps are very different and yet a simple organisational system can be set up in any of them. That's why your ‘system' is more important than the apps you are using. Another reason why your system is more important than the apps you use is if the worst-case scenario does happen and the app you are using shuts down or becomes prohibitively expensive, you can quickly and easily transfer your data across to new apps. So there is a lot to be said for using built-in apps. They are reliable, consistent and have just enough features to be able to do what you need them to do. Let's take the Google suite of productivity apps as an example. Given that all you need is a calendar, a to-do list manager, a notes app and a cloud storage drive. With Google, you have them all. Because of the way Google has added plugins and extensions to their Chrome browser, you can build an amazing productivity dashboard using Chrome. Gmail can operate your email, and if an email comes in you can quickly add it as a task to Google tasks or highlight a section in the email and add it as a note to Google Keep. Another great feature of Google Keep is you can create mini (or full) checklists and all sorts of other types of notes and have them easily accessible as a side panel in your browser. Microsoft office also now allows you to add add-ons to Outlook so you have quick access to your calendar, to-dos and notes from your Outlook window. And of course, all your files can be stored in OneDrive. If I were to completely start again with building my own productivity system, given all my devices are Apple, I would set everything up using only the Apple apps. Apple's sharing functionality across all their devices makes adding tasks, notes and events incredibly easy and iCloud storage is cheap - $10 for 2 terabytes of storage. So, if you want to build your very own productivity system, today I would advise you to start with using the built-in apps your devices come with. If you are in the Apple eco-system like you, Myke, I would use Reminders, Apple Notes, Apple Calendar and iCloud. If I were predominantly a Windows user I would use Microsofts apps and if I were hybrid ie, my computers were Windows and my phone was either an iPhone or Android phone I would go with the Google set. Only after at least six months would I consider third party apps and would only change if I was having some serious difficulties managing my work with the apps I was using. I hope that answers your question, Myke. Thank you for the question and thank you to all of you for listening. It just remains for me now to wish you all a very very productive week.
Tina believes the best way to complain is to make things. Over the past 11 years, Tina has started numerous side projects that have turned into businesses: FRIENDS WORK HERE (a collaborative co-working space), TeuxDeux, Tattly and Creative Mornings (global breakfast lecture series in 158 cities).—Recorded live at the global event in Cardigan, west Wales in 2018.Watch Tina's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/tina-roth-eisenberg-you-have-to-notice-when-the-universe-is-cheering-you-on
In this episode, I am going to nerd out with some of my favorite strategies, systems, and software that will help keep you organized. When I first launched my freelance writing business in 2012, it was okay to be a little bit disorganized. It was also okay to not really have one consistent place where I was communicating with clients or keeping track of my research and deadlines. Why? Because I didn't have that many clients at the time. So whether you're starting right now or you're already in the intermediate stages of your freelance business, it is much easier to build in these strategies and tools now. They'll be there to support you when your business grows. So these are some of my favorite tools for keeping projects and clients organized. My very first tip, no matter where you're at, and whether you've invested in software yet or not, is to write everything down that comes in as a potential project. You have to have a way of key keeping track of the projects that have deadlines associated with them. But you also need a place to store where you're going to keep the contact information for people. You need to follow up with people that you've sent proposals to and with someone who asked you to circle back in three months, etc. So I sort everything that comes into my freelancing world by need. So is this something I need to do? It's an actual project. It's instructions that I need to review and follow up with the client again to ask questions about. Is this something where I need to follow up and see if they've had a chance to review my pitch or proposal? Do I need to ask further information or request a meeting? Or do I need to edit something? Do I need to submit something such as if I've sent in the piece already, but we're waiting to submit the invoice? So there's lots of different tools out there. And one of the best pieces of advice I can tell you is to always be researching and looking for ways that suit your individual business style. The tools that everyone else uses might not be the right fit for you. So a great example of this is that a lot of academics that I know use Trello for organizing their big academic projects. For me, even though I love Trello, and that's one of the tools I'm going to talk about in this episode, it wasn't right for me to organize my dissertation project. [Check out this related post on why I love Trello for managing digital teams] So be open to trying something out and giving it a week or two weeks to see whether it could be a fit for you. And then ultimately changing and using that information that you've learned. What did you like about the process that you had? And what could be better? So one of my favorite tools is TEUXDEUX. It is a very simple tool. And it is very affordable at $24 a year the last time that I checked. It really lists out, almost notebook style, the entire days of the week. Now what's cool about this is that you can easily add things into it. And then you just have to click on it for it to strike a line through it and it won't delete right away anything that you struck the line through. So if you have made a mistake or something, you can go back and fix that. You can also see how much you've done during that day, And you can customize it with sort of a color background. It's a very simplistic tool, but it's one that I have used for over four years. So every time a project came in, I put whatever I needed to do related to that immediately into this particular website. It was easy to access from my phone as well as from my laptop. And I loved that because it was really all I needed at that point in time. So I would split things into different projects like research, write, edit, or turn in invoice. I love the simplicity of Teux Deux and how easy it is to capture information. It also ensured that there was much less of a chance that I would forget something and then not be able to meet a deadline as a result of that. Now my second tool I'm going to recommend is similar to that it's called To Do List. There's a little bit more flexibility with To Do List like add drop down sub tasks and customize things into different projects. Whereas on TeuxDeux, you're just going to have a daily vision of whatever it is that you need to do. So you might have to drag and drop and sort on your own to make things you know work together. Like all the emails you have to send to sort of lump them next to each other so To Do List is sort of a next level up from the above-mentioned tool when it comes to keeping track of all of the different things you've got on your plate. As a freelancer, you're wearing many different hats and doing many different things inside your business. So having a place to track all of this marketing, client communications, actual projects is a great way to be able to keep track of that and make sure that you do not lose things. Now I would be remiss if I did not mention the importance of Google Docs as well. For quite a while, I also use just a Google document with a table of five different boxes in it to keep track of my to do list. And I did that to sort of plot out how much I was doing per day. I was estimating how many hours or minutes it would take me to do certain tasks. That gave me a week by week view of seeing if I was overloading myself on particular days. Being familiar with Google Docs and Google Suite can also be very beneficial when pitching yourself to clients. Oddly enough, not everyone you know has Microsoft Word. And it's also sometimes easier to work from the same version of a document. Google Docs can be beneficial to you if you're a writer or not a writer. Google Docs allows you to see the different changes that are being suggested or have been made in the document so that everyone's working from the same version at the same time. And this is really helpful when you're turning something in. You don't want multiple people editing it on their own and then you have to sort of merge all of those edits together. So Google Docs is an easy way for people to see, edit, and print material that you have turned in. I use Google Sheets and Google Docs pretty much every single day. So it's a great way to be able to communicate with clients, respond to comments, and make sure that you don't miss particular edits as well. You can also accept all of the changes or suggestions when it's in suggest mode. So that is another great benefit that I find to be easier to use than Microsoft Word. Now if you're looking for something for an advanced project that has a lot of moving parts, I love Trello. Other similar tools include Asana and Basecamp. Trello is very visual in comparison to those two. It's best for complicated or advanced projects. I use Trello for the project management of my own virtual team. So we have something like this podcast episode, we’ll move through the process on the Trello board, where we're adding images, making sure that the audio engineer has access to the audio for the show, making sure that we've pulled out quotes for social media, and have the show notes uploaded. So we often connect back and forth with Dropbox. One of the challenges with Trello is that there are limits on how big the file sizes can be. So a lot of times when we're working with a big file, like a podcast episode that gets uploaded into Dropbox, and then we link to it inside Trello. And I love Trello because you can see where everyone has contributed to a certain project. You can see when things that are overdue. And you can ask questions there and tag people. So it works really well for advanced or complicated projects. I have been a Content Manager for several different companies. And I have used Trello for all of those to organize teams of as many as 6 to 15 writers and editors working on the same project. I love the visual aspect of it. And it's very easy to go in and see all of the places where you have been tagged. One of my other favorite tools is called Boomerang for Gmail. Now you can get a free version of Boomerang and it will limit how many of the benefits you can use. I pay for the premium version. It's $5 a month. In my opinion, it's well worth it. There are two different features of Boomerang that I love. One is called inbox pause. It allows you to stop emails from showing up in your inbox. And it hides them into a secret folder. Yes, you can still get to that secret folder if you need to. Boomerang is a great thing if you're trying to respond to a bunch of messages or work on a very focused project and you don't want to have people who are replying to you filling up your email inbox. Or if you're just trying to reduce the amount of time you spend in your email inbox. This can help break some of that addiction of waiting for the next email to populate. So inbox pause, you can set it so that you just have to click unpause. It will then deliver all those messages at once to your inbox. Or you can put it on a schedule. So if you check your email three times a day, it can come back into your inbox on a schedule and help break some of the lost time and productivity that so many of us experience due to email. The other aspect of Boomerang for Gmail that I love is being able to schedule messages to go out at a certain time. And sort of in conjunction with that, send emails to come back into your email inbox later. So I usually never have less than 50 open emails in my inbox at a time. I use Boomerang to the ones that are not urgent. So if it's something where someone's proposing an idea someone sending in something early, I will Boomerang those to come back into my inbox later. It will remove them from showing up as unread in my email inbox. And then I will decide when they come back in. So if my Friday mornings are my administrative time and someone's sending me administrative questions like password issues or invoices, I will receive that and then immediately Boomerang it to come back on Friday. So it doesn't seem like that's something I need to deal with right away. The other aspect of that is sending messages later. You can decide when emails go out. So you can schedule it to go out. For example, if you're working on the weekend and don't really want your clients to know that you're in the office on the weekend, you can schedule that email to go out on Monday morning. You can also set emails to come back to your inbox, if you don't receive a response from the intended party. This can be great as a simple way to track follow up. So if you pitch to somebody over email, they don't respond to you, then you don't want to forget about that. So when you send the email, you can click a button that says send it back to my inbox in two days no matter what, or in two days if I don't get a response. And that can prompt you to make it very easy to respond.So I love Boomerang for Gmail, the free version is great. The $15 a month is well worth it for all of the benefits that you get. Now speaking of tracking email, HubSpot email tracking is one tool that I have consistently used. Another program that is similar is called Streak. It's great for those of you who are sending out a lot of pitches over email and want to be able to keep track of when your emails are being opened. So in the free version of HubSpot, you can track activity for up to 200 notifications. So it's going to track a notification every time someone opens your email. Now this is great for if you send someone a pitch proposal and you can see if they got the email. If it is sitting there sent, you might be wondering why I don't know if my email message went through. And then secondly, it's also helpful to see who's opening your messages. So if you send a pitch or proposal and someone's opened it 17 times, there's something in there that's calling their attention. So it could be a great opportunity for you to follow up. You don't need to mention that you've tracked the email and that you know, they've opened it so many times. But it can be a great way to pull out from all the pitches or proposals that you're sending which ones deserve a response. So you'd want to follow up with those people who are opening your email a lot. There may be something there that is really making them interested or they have further questions. So it's a perfect opportunity, while you know that you are top of mind for them, to be able to follow up. So I've used the paid version of HubSpot email tracking for one to two months. It's about $50 a month for the basic upgrade into the premium version. And I did that when I was pitching literary agents. So I was sending a ton of emails. I wanted to make sure my emails were being read. I also use that in conjunction with Boomerang for Gmail, because each literary agent had different guidelines for how long to give them space to read your material before following up. So someone say if it's been six weeks, and you haven't heard from us, you can follow up. So when I would send those emails, I would use Boomerang as well as the HubSpot extension that you can add into your Gmail account. So I would send it with the tracking so I could see that they opened it. And then I would send it to Boomerang back into my inbox if it had been six weeks and I hadn't heard from them to do the follow up. So the free version is probably sufficient for most people. I think you can get a lot of benefits out of the free version. So definitely check into that. It's a very easy extension that you can connect to your Gmail account. Now my last tool that I'm going to mention for this podcast is Google Calendar. If you don't want to use something like Boomerang or HubSpot because that feels too technical or you think you'd need the paid version. You can use Google calendar for adding follow up reminders. I love using Google Calendar in connection with an email scheduling or with a scheduling tool that I use called Calendly. I like Calendly because rather than having emails going back and forth, it makes it easy for them to book a time that is on your schedule. And you can set it up where it sends a calendar invitation immediately to their email address after they've booked a time. So they're going to get reminders and other information about speaking with you. You can also use Google calendar for adding follow up reminders. I've used Google calendar to create my ideal week. So I don't know if you know that you can go into calendars and set up different ones to show up on your schedule at the same time. So on the left side, inside Google Calendar, it says my calendars, I've got a goal week calendar. And I've got my regular calendar. You can merge those together so you see all of the things that you have coming up. But Google Calendar makes it so easy to see what your week ahead is looking like or to determine if you're traveling, which weeks look kind of slow, where you might be able to easily get out of the office and do some different things, or take some time off. So Google Calendar just makes that so easy. And like I mentioned at the beginning of this episode, you always want to test things out and see what's going to work best for you. Because what works for me might not work as well for you. So test things out. And if you don't love something about a software or tool, figure out how you can tweak it. So go into YouTube and look for tutorials and other information where you can learn more about it. Or ask in entrepreneur groups.You can say, “Hey, this is what I love and don't love about you know Boomerang for Gmail. Does anyone else know of another program that is similar, where I can still get some of these benefits without some of the downsides?” So this has been Episode 83. I'd love to hear what other strategies, tools, and pieces of software are essential for you and your freelance business. What are you using to scale up and to be able to get things done efficiently and never let any of the different projects slip through the cracks? As always, thanks for tuning in. You can send topic ideas or questions to info at betterbizacademy.com. For more freelance advice, get a copy of my book Start Your Own Freelance Writing Business—available now! 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On this episode I get to interview someone I admire, Tina Roth Eisenberg, about how it is she moves from creative spark to execution on an idea. I struggle with putting my ideas out into the world, and I know I am not the only one. If you are looking for the courage to become brave with your ideas, you won't want to miss this interview. Tina is warm, open, and generous with her insights and her story. Tina Roth Eisenberg is a Swiss born, raised and trained graphic designer. In 1999 she came to NYC for a 3 month design internship and never left. Over the past 13 years Tina started numerous side projects that have organically turned into businesses: a creative co-working community called FRIENDS, a global, monthly lecture series called CreativeMornings, a simple to-do app called TeuxDeux and Tattly, a high-end temporary tattoo shop. You can find Tina, and all her amazing creations here: Blog: www.swiss-miss.com Lecture series: www.creativemornings.com Tattoo shop: www.tattly.com To-do app: www.teuxdeux.com Coworking space: www.friendsworkhere.com Twitter: @swissmiss Instagram: @swissmiss To find Still Becoming on Instagram, follow Monica at @monicadicristina.
Our guest this week is Tina Roth Eisenberg. Tina is a Swiss born, raised, and trained graphic designer. In 1999, she came to New York City for a three-month design internship and never left. Over the past 13 years, Tina started numerous side projects that have organically turned into businesses. A creative co-working community called FRIENDS, a global monthly lecture series called CreativeMornings, a simple to-do app called TeuxDeux, and Tattly, a high-end temporary tattoo shop. She lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with her two kids, Ella and Tilo, who are teaching her the art of making slime and building forts. Tina is often referred to as Swissmiss, after her popular blog. She likes that. You can find her on Instagram and Twitter @swissmiss. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/tina-roth-eisenberg-swissmiss
Tina Roth Eisenberg (aka @swissmiss) is the founder of CreativeMornings - a global monthly lecture series; TeuxDeux - a to-do list app; Tattly - a design-led temporary tattoo shop; and Friends Work Here - a co-working space in New York City. Swiss-born Tina started swissmiss in 2005 as her personal visual archive and watched it grow into one of the internet's most popular design journals with over 1 million visitors a month. After working in several prominent NYC design firms Tina decided to start her own design studio but found that many of her side projects were (unexpectedly!) growing into small companies. So, in February 2015, Tina took a one-year client sabbatical to follow her labors of love in their many and varied directions. This led her to found a global monthly lecture series called CreativeMornings; a to-do app called TeuxDeux; Tattly, a design-led temporary tattoo shop; and a co-working space called Friends Work Here. Tina is dedicated to finding intersections between her personal and professional interests and believes we should all be taking our side projects seriously, and sees these passions as areas of opportunity through which we can create wholesome work environments for ourselves. Today's episode is full of advice on how you can turn your passion projects into long term businesses. This includes how to: - Take the time and space to be entrepreneurial - Make your side projects work together - Scale ideas and add value to them - Overcome hesitation (clue: examine what that hesitation is about) - Do things for the joy of the process, instead of the outcome - Adopt five personal rules to help root your beliefs and ideas Tina credits much of her businesses' success to the individual teams in charge and is infamous for assembling her teams through unusual interview techniques which isolate shared visions and outlooks. Later on in our episode, Tina shares these invaluable tips for finding talent that's the right fit in your company. Find out more about Tina: 5 personal rules: http://www.swiss-miss.com/2014/06/sharing-my-5-personal-rules.html Swissmiss blog: http://www.swiss-miss.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/swissmiss Tattly: http://tattly.com/ TeuxDeux: http://teuxdeux.com/ Creative Mornings: http://creativemornings.com/ Friends Work Here: http://www.friendsworkhere.com/ Thanks to our patrons for this episode: - Anna Caroline who coaches leaders in Berlin: http://truthcircles.com - Megan Quinn who supports Code2014: http://www.code2040.org - Alexandra Cosma: http://alexandracosma.com - Emma Harris If you want to help us create The Role Models Podcast in the future, become a patron and chip-in $1, $3, $5, or $10 per episode. Read more about the different tiers and rewards on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rolemodels
What does being more productive mean to you?Being productive doesn't mean sitting and working for eight straight hours. You'll burn yourself out!There are other ways to maximize productivity. For instance, cutting out distractions and turning off email notifications.Many of us are looking for ways to live a more productive life, that's why in this episode, I'll share 17 strategies you can employ today to have an exceptionally productive 2018!Key resources:TeuxDeux is a simple designy to-do app for the Web and iPhone.LeechBlock NG is a simple productivity tool: an extension for the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day.Freedom blocks distracting websites and apps across all your Mac, Windows, and iOS devices so you can focus on what matters most.Pomodoro Secrets To Productivity FreedomUpwork is an online community of talented virtual workers from around the world who want freelance work, and companies who need their skills.Want to learn exactly how to make your first hire in less than 30 days and start delegating work you dislike doing, shouldn't be doing or frankly can't do? Let me show you exactly how in Outsource Like a Rockstar.Toggl: Hassle-free time tracking so your business runs like clockwork.Why you need your own Personal Assistant See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Retour sur le dernier épisode de Zizou Bon, je vais tenter les podcast de the french codeur :D Sinon on entend toujours cette histoire de "faire un truc qui nous passionne." car on est soit expert, soit on le deviendra. D'ailleurs aujourd'hui pour trouver un boulot ou surtout pour créer son boulot, il faut être un expert dans un domaine. Mais il se passe quoi si on est passionné par différents sujets et que justement on ne veut pas devenir expert dans un sujet en particulier ? Quand on ne traite que d'un sujet en particulier, on va trouver des gens qui sont passionnés par ce sujet. Mais si on parle de 20 sujets différents... et bien, on risque de perdre les gens qui ne sont intéressés que par un type de sujet. Un exemple bidon est que si un jour Techcafe ou Relife se met à parler de voiture ou de voyages, pas sur que ça intéresse la cible de base. Bref, est ce qu'il y aurait une solution? Faire 20 podcasts différents? https://fr.sott.net/article/19733-Documentaire-La-dictature-des-experts Actualités personnelles de vos animateurs * Mat : bravo pour le permis ! * Guillaume : ça y est j'ai fait une formation : ce que j'en ai appris le rappel des fondamentaux, de la satisfaction, et des échanges humains Dossier On parle d'Estelle * qui est-elle ? (Ah ah ah) * Le podcast du Café des créatrices : comment, quand, pourquoi ? * L'entrepreneuriat : les clés du succès selon toi * Sa méthode d'organisation, sa façon de bosser * Gettings Things Done de David Allen * Multi méthodes: Excel, Google Agenda, Today ToDo (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/today-to-do-clever-task-management/id330551758?mt=8), TeuxDeux (https://teuxdeux.com), bullet journal * Méthode selon contexte: pro (digital et complexe) versus perso (simple et papier) * La démarche de coaching avec Patrick Beja + le binome https://www.facebook.com/groups/FocusMate * Le blog Les 2 roues Mat : permis moto et les 3 types de conducteurs Guillaume : en vélo en ville Estelle : l'iRoad https://www.citelibbyhamo.fr (photo de la voiture: https://goo.gl/x7Sy9K) Autres sujets Guillaume : Remplacez les todo lists par des agendas Mat : Remplacez les todo lists par le TimeBlocking Estelle : recommandation de Planyway (https://planyway.com), extension / plug-in Trello http://snip.ly/vn28l#http://www.oneminuteproject.com/liresurlesite/86-59552fe8bfec8 L'application / le truc / la bonne pratique recommandée par Estelle Chime: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chime/id414830146?mt=8 La citation préférée d'Estelle Ne pas présenter qu'un problème, mais aussi des solutions L'outil le plus utile dans la vie d'Estelle Le bullet journal et l'App Store Où retrouver Estelle sur internet ?
Graphic designer and entrepreneurial super-hero, Tina Roth Eisenberg aka swissmiss, has always been full of ideas. Luckily, she channels her powers for good: like the lecture series CreativeMornings, Tattly temporary tattoos, to-do app TeuxDeux and the popular design blog swissmiss. She shares with Jaime and Amy the magic of finding and building community through non-transactional giving, the positive side of divorce and the benefits of keeping a desk drawer stocked with confetti. Images and more from our guest! Please say Hi on social! Twitter, Instagram and Facebook - @CleverPodcast, @amydevers, @designmilk If you enjoy Clever we could use your support! Please consider leaving a review, making a donation, becoming a sponsor, or introducing us to your friends! We love and appreciate you! Clever is created, hosted and produced by Amy Devers and Jaime Derringer, aka 2VDE Media, with music from El Ten Eleven and editing by Chris Modl. Clever is proudly distributed by Design Milk.
Recorded 2/10/17. Summary: Nabeel and Bijan discuss a few favorite new apps, some thoughts about current American politics & the moral awakening of Silicon Valley, Related links: Teuxdeux: teuxdeux.com/ 10% Happier: itunes.apple.com/us/app/meditatio…id992210239?mt=8 Anil Dash: Tech Moral Reckoning: onbeing.org/programs/anil-dash-…hs-moral-reckoning/
Recorded 2/10/17. Summary: Nabeel and Bijan discuss a few favorite new apps, some thoughts about current American politics & the moral awakening of Silicon Valley, Related links: Teuxdeux: https://teuxdeux.com/ 10% Happier: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meditation-for-fidgety-skeptics/id992210239?mt=8 Anil Dash: Tech Moral Reckoning: http://onbeing.org/programs/anil-dash-techs-moral-reckoning/
Tina Roth Eisenberg, author of the Swiss Miss design blog and founder of Creative Mornings, TeuxDeux and Tattly, shares her tips for turning side projects into startups, why every founder must get a handle on sales, and how community can raise your startup's ceiling.
On this episode, style blogger and digital media expert Christina S. Brown joins us in the guest chair. Christina is the founder of the fast-growing style & beauty destination LoveBrownSugar.com, mommy destination BabyBrownSugar.com and digital empowerment community BrownGirlsLove. As a Wharton grad with no formal editorial experience, Christina started her blog started out as a hobby and portfolio piece to get hired by magazines. She didn’t go into it with the intention of building a business or making money from it. Fast forward eight years and she’s been recognized everywhere from the New York Times to People StyleWatch as a top lifestyle expert, and is known for curating platforms for multicultural women with an emphasis on self-empowerment. Christina has been heralded as a “30 Under 30 Style Maven” by HelloBeautiful.com, a “Top 40 Style Blogger” by Essence Magazine, a Black Enterprise Magazine “Blogger Month” Honoree, and a Wharton Magazine “Social Media Watch List” Honoree. On this episode, Christina shares: The planning she did before leaving her full time job How you can make money from blogging in the current landscape (all the revenue streams she pursues) How NEW bloggers can approach sponsored opportunities The difference between popularity and INFLUENCE Her approach to expanding her original blog into new verticals, including live events How to financially sustain yourself given the unpredictable nature of entrepreneurship Listen on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher and Google Play Links mentioned on this episode: Unsubscribe book TeuxDeux to do list LoveBrownSugar BabyBrownSugar BrownGirlsLove ShopLoveBrownSugar You Are A Badass Click here to subscribe via RSS feed (non-iTunes feed): http://sidehustlepro.libsyn.com/rss Important Announcements: If you’re interested in growing your business and brand using the powers of Instagram, register for MASTER THE GRAM. Master The Gram is the ultimate Instagram course for business owners who want to attract their true fans and turn them into loyal, returning customers. In a series of four modules, plus a bonus module, you will learn how to leverage Instagram to grow your brand, drive traffic to your site and increase your income. REGISTER HERE: http://sidehustlepro.co/masterthegram Side Hustle Pro is now almost 1000 members strong. If you’re looking for a community of supportive side hustlers who are all working to take our businesses to the next level, join us here: http://sidehustlepro.co/mastermind Connect on Instagram: Love Brown Sugar - @LoveBrownSugar Side Hustle Pro – @sidehustlepro #SideHustlePro
Tina Roth-Eisenberg aka Swiss Miss is an acclaimed graphic designer and entrepreneur. She's the founder of several ventures including CreativeMornings, a to-do app called TeuxDeux, a designy temporary tattoo shop called Tattly and runs a co-working space called FRIENDS. Today on the podcast... * The beauty of starting something as a side project vs a business-- you’re more willing to experiment, less afraid of failure * Scratching your own itch. Tina says, "If I keep repeatedly complaining about something, I have to either fix it or let it go" * We get into Tattly, how it came about, but also how her values & principals drive how she does business. Like requiring that their shipments require real stamps so that when they arrive, it feels like a friend sent it to you Enjoy! This episode first appeared on CreativeLive as part of the 30 Days of Genius series. Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.chasejarvis.com/podcast. This podcast is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world’s top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times.
Dan Benjamin talks with Tina Roth Eisenberg, creator of swissmiss, founder of Creative Mornings and TeuxDeux. They discuss design, creativity, inspiration, honesty, celebrity, the evolution of ideas into a websites and web applications, and more. Original Air Date: August 23, 2010
Bryan Orr (@BryanJOrr) is both a brick-and-mortal small business owner and software entrepreneur, based in Florida. In owning and operating a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) installation company, he has experimented with a great variety of project management tools and collaboration software. Following this, he ventured into the software game itself, commissioning his own system to help run the business. He also hosts the WOW Small Business Podcast and is a co-creator of MentionTribe, an online service aimed at helping local small businesses. Show Notes & Links Bryan owns a HVAC installation business MentionTribe WOW Small Business Podcast Prescott had a past life as a Mechanical Engineering draftsman R-12 vs R-134a refridgerants Remember The Milk and TeuxDeux, examples of “laundry list” apps Basecamp, classic email replacement tool Gantt Charts Time-tracking and Invoicing Image previewing and collaborative reviewing “Tasking”, Bryan's term for assigning items to different team members Gwenyth Paltrow uses Basecamp Bryan favours Trello for team collaboration Kanban board, take a task through a lifecycle Freedcamp is a free(mium) version of Basecamp Prescott doesn't like “glorified checklists” because not everything in life is a checkbox item “Email needs to be taken out back, burned, and never heard from again” ← Click to Tweet “Advanced Chat”, Bryan's term for specified cross-talk which replaces email Josh Miles, previous podcast guest and design firm owner “Pictures of Success” Eisenhower methodology Clients should not use text messaging, especially when the recipient may be driving Toggl, simple time-tracking but not so much invoicing Screenshot Monitor, keeps an eye on team members up-to-the-minute Xero, small business online accounting software; and employer of Saul Colt, past podcast guest Starship Design, Prescott's design company The Wayback Machine Password managers like Dashlane allow you to have your password on you at all times The trouble with reference materials, “knowledge base” Wiki software is not very user-friendly Dropbox beats Google Drive for roll-back of individual files Work Smarter by Nick Loper Entrepreneur on Fire podcast Tools Remember The Milk TeuxDeux Basecamp Harvest Design Sign Off Evernote and Easily Do Trello KanBan Flow Freedcamp Slack HipChat MindMeister Jira from Atlassian Workamajig Asana FreshBooks FreeAgentPro Toggl ScreenShot Monitor Xero Mint GitHub IFTTT – If This Then That Google Drive Lighthouse Pivotal Tracker TacoApp Dashlane Dropbox Kippt, bookmarking tool for teams Gingko, non-linear writing tool Techniques Create new columns (“States”) in your Kanban board Utilise a real Project Manager to make decisions and keep the project moving Define “Pictures of Success” to demonstrate best practices within your team Use the Eisenhower methodology to determine what's important vs. what's urgent Don't use text messaging for business Create a method of your own to-do list Create a method for group communication/chat Create a method for assigning tasks Ensure you have mobile capabilities Experiment with mind-mapping methodologies Build a team knowledge base so folks don't have to ask each other for stuff all the time Habits Adhere to the system you create, but also test new methods Review your personal and team to-dos at the end of each day
A while back (in the second episode, in fact) I covered the productivity/todo list app TeuxDeux, a delightful tool that helps you manage your todo lists, with a focus on only essential features. I still love TeuxDeux, but as my team and business has grown since then, I needed to upgrade to something with more […]
The busy Tina Roth Eisenberg (aka Swiss Miss) had a talk with us at her birthplace Sankt Gallen. Although she was born, raised and educated in Switzerland, she found in New York a place that actually adapts to her speed. She is the curator and composer of the swissmiss-blog, that started out as a personal visual bookmark archive in 2005, but reaches more than a million viewers per month nowadays! Her blog has so much impact that she can actually launch an upcoming designer by the exposure of a single post. We are wondering if this acquired power makes her nervous and if there are certain Swiss things that she misses in the States. In the end we talk about the other concepts, products and brands she created, that originated from her need to be her own client. Recorded at Tÿpo St.Gallen 2011, Switzerland. Swiss Miss blog :: Teuxdeux app :: Creative Mornings :: Tattly :: Studio Mates :: File Download (17:45 min / 20 MB)
In Episode No. 81 of The Big Web Show ("Everything Web That Matters") host Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Tina Roth Eisenberg, creator of swissmiss and tattly and co-founder of Creative Mornings and TeuxDeux. The two designers discuss discovering your path as a designer; why the motto "let it go or fix it" can help you create great product ideas; how to be a good boss; and how having children can have a profoundly positive influence your career. Links for this episode:https://twitter.com/swissmisshttp://www.swiss-miss.comhttp://teuxdeux.comhttp://www.creativemornings.comhttp://tattly.comhttp://www.studiomates.comhttps://twitter.com/jenmussarihttps://twitter.com/destroytodayhttp://destroytoday.com/blog/http://www.gregstorey.comhttp://muledesign.comhttp://www.coudal.comhttp://decknetwork.netThis episode was sponsored by An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites. http://www.aneventapart.com
In Episode No. 81 of The Big Web Show ("Everything Web That Matters") host Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Tina Roth Eisenberg, creator of swissmiss and tattly and co-founder of Creative Mornings and TeuxDeux. The two designers discuss discovering your path as a designer; why the motto "let it go or fix it" can help you create great product ideas; how to be a good boss; and how having children can have a profoundly positive influence your career.
In this week's CampNation Dan, Gab, Joe & Travis talk about the news in the world of summer camps. We had a great time during this recording chatting about the effects of Facebook on the lives of camp directors. I think one of the great take-aways from the discussion was the link that Dan posted (see below) to the list of more than 80 organizations social media policies. Using these as a starting point will make your work a lot easier. On with the show! Links - News about the camping/recreation industry (Gab) Slate: Why Can't Johnny Jump Tall Buildings? Parents expect way too much from their kids. (Dan) Instructables.com: Rustic Hammock Style Wilderness Chair (Joe) Trend of articles on saving money on summer camp: Tips for making summer camp more affordable, How to keep the cost of summer camp low, How to save on Summer Camp (Travis) - Seth Godin's Linchpin Book Club for Camp Directors Extra: Frost Valley's Registration Form, Pearce Williams Registration Form Discussion: Facebook Social Media Policies from 80+ Organizations - you can use this Mashable.com resource to help create your own policy Frost Valley YMCA - Staff members are representatives of Frost Valley YMCA and should act in a manner consistent with the mission and objectives of camp at all times. They will be held strictly accountable for their actions on and off property. Picks Of The Week - A tool that will make you a better camp director Dan - TeuxDeux Gab - VoiceShot Joe - Flavors.me http://flavors.me/yoyojoe http://flavors.me/pwcc http://flavors.me/zoic Travis - 1Password for Mac Your Hosts: Dan Weir – Frost Valley YMCA (New York) Gabrielle Raill – Camp Ouareau (Quebec) Joe Richards – Pearce Williams Christian Centre (Ontario) Travis Allison – Our Kids Media