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When Maggie began sharing her vegan food finds online, she had no idea that what started as a free time blog would soon turn into a nation-wide vegan media company. In this week's episode we chat to the VegOut Magazine founder about the journey so far, and what it was like making the transition out of the corporate world and into that of entrepreneurship. We also spoke about what Maggie believed was the driver of VegOut's initial growth and their bottom-up approach to expansion, as well as the future of print plus more. Blog: Plant-based Press Our website: Vegan Startup Click here to subscribe on Android or Apple iTunes   Get in touch on socials @veganstartuppod or by email hello@veganstartuppod.com

The field is set for the 153rd running of the Belmont Stakes!  Who better to guide you through the final Jewel of the Triple Crown than the Queen of NYRA herself, Maggie Wolfendale.  When Maggie starts dissecting a field in the paddock, everyone pricks their ears. She's sharp and has an eye for talent, aside from knowing the New York Racing circuit like the back of her hand.  Tune in to hear her opinion on all 8 Grade 1 events (!) taking place at Belmont Park this Saturday, as guided by host Naomi Tukker.

The field is set for the 153rd running of the Belmont Stakes!  Who better to guide you through the final Jewel of the Triple Crown than the Queen of NYRA herself, Maggie Wolfendale.  When Maggie starts dissecting a field in the paddock, everyone pricks their ears. She’s sharp and has an eye for talent, aside from knowing the New York Racing circuit like the back of her hand.  Tune in to hear her opinion on all 8 Grade 1 events (!) taking place at Belmont Park this Saturday, as guided by host Naomi Tukker.  

Maggie Brown works with EDF UK at their Hinkley Point C site. She leads on Supplier Relationship Management and previously led their innovation programme. Maggie grew up in Ottawa Canada and now lives in Bristol with husband Sam and two-year old Mya. In 2003, Maggie studied for a BA in Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal. Following this period of study, she travelled across Australia, Asia, Mexico and Central America. Maggie then took the bold decision and moved to London to do her MSc in Political Sociology.   After her MSc, and a short-term position with Ringway Jacobs in London, she began a job with Amida Recruitment in 2012, with a focus on sustainability. Impressed by her work ethic, Maggie won the Rising Star Award in 2012. In 2013, Maggie decided to become an Independent Consultant and worked with clients like Mott MacDonald. In 2016, she started as an Innovation Coordinator at Crossrail and was promoted to Innovation Programme Migration Manager before making a move to EDF as an Innovation Manager where Maggie got involved with their new build project at Hinkley Point C project. Maggie is currently Commercial Lead-Supplier Relationship Management. When Maggie’s not too busy pushing the next generation of nuclear power stations into existence, in her spare time she likes to sail and also enjoys travelling, cooking and dancing. For more information visit: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/maggie-brown-61870a42

Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp7E22EIYxUG3GTWRli8lZw/join 8-year-old Jenny (Violet McGraw) is constantly caught in the middle of the feuding between her lawyer mother Maggie (Mamie Gummer) and artist father Jeff (Rupert Friend). She leads a lonely but imaginative life, surrounded by puppets called "Grisly Kin", which are based on the works of her father. When Maggie is tragically killed in a hit-and-run, Jeff and Jenny try to piece together a new life. But when Maggie's father (Brian Cox) sues for custody, and babysitter Samantha (Madeline Brewer) tries to be the new woman of the house, life in their Brooklyn townhome takes a dark turn. The puppets and frightening characters come to life and Jenny is the only person who can see them. When the motives of the ghoulish creatures become clear, the lives of everyone are put very much in jeopardy. Subscribe Today Gypsy Road: https://www.youtube.com/c/GypsyRoad101 Subscribe Today Horror Talk: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEgi9rUhlNRsEypGMbZF-gA Ways to Support! * Streamelements donations - https://www.streamelements.com/gypsyroad/tip * Merchandise - https://teespring.com/stores/gypsy-road-effect * Patreon - https://Patreon.com/GypsyRoad * Subscribestar - https://www.subscribestar.com/gypsy-road * PayPal - https://paypal.me/skywood6 * Bitcoin - https://www.coinbase.com/join/wood_0v Ways to Follow! * Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/GypsyRoadHGHWY * Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/u/gypsyroad101/home * Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gypsyroadhghwy/ * Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GypsyRoadHGHWY * Anchor - https://anchor.fm/eric-wood87 * DLive - https://www.https://dlive.tv/GypsyRoad * Website - https://www.https://GypsyRoad.Live * Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/GypsyRoad/ Ways to Contact! * Email - TrueThoughtsNews@gmail.com * Actual Mail - PO BOX 98191 Seattle, WA 98198-0191 Gypsy Road Productions --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/eric-wood87/support

For years, Maggie made an annual goal to get out of credit card debt but despite her best efforts, the credit card debt increased year after year from $2,000 to over $16,000. When Maggie thought about what she needed to do to achieve her goals of paying off debt and saving money she wasn't able to see beyond her reality, the reality that seemed to say that she'd be in debt forever despite her best efforts. She also held the belief that she would never be good with money because that meant she needed to be disciplined and follow a set of strict rules. Maggie decided to hire a coach because she desired different results. After a couple years of setting financial goals and not meeting them it became clear to her that she needed another strategy. As her financial coach, it is safe to say that Maggie had a resistance to budgeting because she did not see how budgeting would allow her to live a carefree life. Over the course of my one month intensive, Maggie shifted her mindset about money. She started to see how we were simply making a plan that allowed her to align her finances with her priorities so she could make informed decisions. Her plan allowed her to make room to save for travel, pay extra on her credit card debt to eliminate it within the next 12-18 months, and also helped her prioritize setting aside money for less sexy things like saving for a new roof. Tune into this episode and hear more about the progress Maggie has made in the last year. In this episode you'll learn… Why Maggie thought budgeting would never work for her because she held the belief that it was about discipline and not freedom How she realized she was making decisions on flawed information about her finances How Maggie started to build a real emergency fund to cover at least 3 months of expenses Maggie's realization about how she could have credit card debt and still save for other things she cared about like travel How she's reallotted money since we've started working together Maggie's new definition of discipline and how it's helped her to be indulgent in with her spending without guilt or fear Having a budget doesn't mean you won't be able to enjoy your life and I'd argue it's the very thing you need to see progress towards your financial goals and gain a sense of clarity about the next purchase you want to make. A budget allows you to make purchases without the stress of wondering whether you'll be able to pay your bills on time, pay down your debt, or cover an emergency. If you've ever thought that life is too short to live on a budget, you'll want to tune into Maggie's episode because she held a similar belief - and she moved past it to pay off over $11,000 worth of credit card debt and a three-month emergency fund. And if you're ready to create a budget that makes the life you want possible, schedule a call. Learn more at www.wealthovernow.com and get the full transcript

Graham from Puyallup has asked us for help with his girlfriend Maggie who he says is jealous of his relationship with his sister. Graham says he and his sister have been super close all of their lives and she’s pretty much his best friend. He says his sister is a great person and he doesn’t understand why Maggie doesn’t like having her around. When Maggie comes on she says she likes Graham’s sister just fine, but she is always over at the house, sometimes 3-4 times a week for dinner, without giving Maggie any advanced warning, almost like a third member of the relationship. He also seeks his sister’s opinion on every aspect of their relationship and sometimes she knows about big news in his life before she does. Maggie makes a good case, and Graham also seems reasonable at first, but then he gets super defensive and, we hate to say it, kinda weird…

Show 20 is quite the anniversary episode! The one and only Maggie Wolfendale, the Queen of NYRA, joins Naomi this week.  When Maggie talks, everyone listens. Her sharp eye and extensive knowledge of all the runners have made her a popular and unique member of the broadcasting team. Aside from paddock analysis, she's a host, a handicapper and she conducts horse back interviews to boot. The national Fox Sports shows such as Saratoga Live and America's Day at the Races wouldn't be the same without her.  Naomi and Maggie go over the Forego and Sword Dancer fields, reflect on the most impressive 2YO performances at Saratoga, dive into Maggie's equine and professional history, her role as on air talent in combination with being an assistant and exercise rider to her husband Tom Morley and so much more.  What are you waiting for? Check it out.

Maggie Berghoff is an entrepreneur, and celebrity health consultant. Maggie is the founder of Celproceo, a cutting-edge health and wellness agency rooted in Functional and Integrative Medicine, trusted by celebrities, professional athletes, and CEOs/executives. Maggie has been featured in many outlets such as USA Today, Bloomberg, Entrepreneur, Well + Good, Under Armour, CBS, NBC, Glamour, iheartradio, national television, and several documentaries. She obtained her background in health as a Family Nurse Practitioner graduating both undergraduate and graduate school from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. In this episode, Maggie opens the show explaining how environmental checkups work. When Maggie gets a new client, one of the first things she does is go through the six environmental stressors. The six stressors are air, water, light, sound, EMF, and food. Maggie gives tips on preventing stress in each of these categories: Air Focus on getting outside into nature as much as possible. You have to optimize your home! Make sure that your air is circulating by opening your windows. Air purifiers are fantastic! Specifically, Maggie recommends EnviroKlenz. Make sure that you are changing your filters every couple of months. Water A lot of clients think they are drinking healthy water when they have a refrigerator filter system. The truth is, those systems do not work that well. Instead, Maggie says to look for a reverse osmosis water system – it will add back the good minerals to your water. Maggie recommends using either Aquasana or Home Master for your filter needs. Get some sort of shower head filter to prevent contaminants from the water. Light If you are struggling with diabetes, get outside, and actually see the natural sun at least three times a day. Do not get bright LED lights. In the evening, make sure you have some amber tone lights. Sound Give yourself some time where there is no sound. Your body is interpreting sound all day every day, so it will need quiet time to recharge. EMF EMF is like microwave radiation in your body. The good news, it’s an easy fix. Make sure your phone is an arm’s length away. Another thing you can do is put it in airplane mode. Do not put your laptop on your lap. Disconnect whenever you can. Food If you eat foods that you are intolerant to, they will create inflammation in the body. Get a food intolerance test and avoid those foods. Maggie believes that if you optimize these six things, the inflammation levels in your body will decrease immediately. When the inflammation level is knocked down, you can finally see clearer and ultimately heal your body. Inflammation can come from many things—for instance, bad water, poor air quality, and allergens. When you think of inflammation, think of a splinter in your finger. Your finger will be red, swollen, and hurting. Imagine if there were constant hits on our body internally. After years and years, people will all of sudden experience symptoms. Inflammation will become a problem when it happens all the time. Long-term stress will cause damage to your body. If you have loads of inflammation that is causing diabetes, you will most likely have hormonal imbalances, gut health disturbance, and thyroid issues. Inflammation is a full-body response and a systemic downfall. There is a reason type two diabetes happened. It’s Maggie’s job to find out why. The only way she can do that is by testing what is going on in the body through a whole system’s approach. Maggie doesn’t care what sugar levels are. She cares about what is causing the sugar levels to be out of whack. Some standard tests that Maggie gives her patients are a stool examination, a food intolerance test, and a nutripanel. Stay tuned as Maggie describes the importance of knowing your metabolic type. Plus, Maggie explains why getting your lab tests done is financially worth the price. Key Takeaways: [ 1:15 ] About environmental checkups [ 3:30 ] Where inflammation comes from [ 5:40 ] When inflammation becomes a problem [ 8:45 ] The six environmental stressors   [ 22:10 ] Common tests that Maggie gives her patients [ 26:30 ] About your metabolic type   [ 31:45 ] Why getting your lab tests is financially worth it [ 36:00 ] Maggie gives her final advice Mentioned in this Episode: Maggie’s Website: https://maggieberghoff.com/ Maggie’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maggie_berghoff/ Maggie’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maggieberghoff/ EnviroKlenz: https://enviroklenz.com/maggie-berghoff/ Aquasana: https://www.aquasana.com Home Master: https://www.homemasterfilters.com Trace Elements: https://www.traceelements.com Enjoyed the Podcast? Subscribe on iTunes and leave a review! For more Dr. Mowll, check out his  website drmowll.com For Dr. Mowll's high quality nutritional supplements visit https://sweetlifenutritionals.com/ For more information on this week’s episode, visit: Mastering Blood Sugar Podcast

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When Maggie is away, the boys will play! Join Christopher, Josh, Justin & Kyle for a special, first-ever "Collectors Edition" episode where the Star Wars Friends explore the massive Star Wars toy line! Favorite toys! Dream toys! Toys that would make a gundark blush! We cover it all in this episode made for any level of Star Wars collector! MTFBWY

Maggie Tucker is the owner and founder of the Nashville-based retail stores magpies baby and magpies girl. The magpies stores provide clothing, gifts and more for young girls and their families in a uniquely joyful and fun environment. Maggie has been featured in Southern Living, Cottage Living and Gift Shop Magazine, and she won HGTV’s award for top retail merchandising and design. Maggie is also passionate about serving the Nashville community, both by partnering with entrepreneurs and creatives and by giving back to organizations like Preston Taylor Ministries and the Dream Center. When Maggie realized her store would have to close because of COVID-19, she and her team shifted the entire business online, providing curbside pickup and shipping orders to families across the country. She’s also had to stay flexible with her plans around ordering new products, marketing her business and still providing an incredible experience even when people can’t come into the physical store. In the process, she’s witnessed the power of people’s support for small businesses, and she offers words of encouragement to other women who find themselves struggling during these difficult times.  In This Episode: Maggie opens up about the difficulties she’s faced as a small business owner during COVID-19 and explains how she’s shifted her operations to stay in business. She also encourages women to support and empower each other and talks about the importance of learning to accept help from others when they offer it. Here are some of the highlights: Transitioning to stay in business during COVID-19 Staying true to the heart of magpies even when selling online The importance of supporting other women business owners  Learning to accept help from others Businesses Leah and Maggie mentioned: Kathy Thomas Photography Collective615 Preston Taylor Ministries Laura Issa Photography Listen to Maggie’s First Her Story of Success Episode

Do you suffer from shiny object syndrome? Are you listening to wayyyy too many people online who all seem to all have different messages on how you can grow your business? Have you ever felt overwhelmed with what courses to take and which mentors to follow?   This is just a sample of what we will be covering on the show today. In this episode, I'm honored to talk to Maggie Isley about prioritizing family, making intentional mindset shifts, and following through on your action plans. When Maggie joined my membership she was bringing in $3,000 a month and within 30 days she more than doubled it and finished at $7,300! Amazing, right?!    Maggie Isley is a holistic brand designer and strategist, wife and mom to two boys. She has only been in the Serve Scale Soar membership for a short time, but even in 30 days her results have been amazing!  Listen in and find out how you, too, can eliminate the noise and create processes to WOW your clients so you can hit your personal income goals!  View full show notes at www.servescalesoar.com/31

Growing up all I personally craved was being included and having great friends in my life. Today's guest has a strong passion for inclusion and removing attitudinal barriers. Maggie Fay is an educator in Ontario, Canada, where she teaches students with Autism and Developmental Disabilities. Before Maggie became an educator, she started her career in the field of disabilities as a support worker, educational assistant and running a government funding program for adults with disabilities. When Maggie teaches, she thinks about her own boys and how they would want a teacher to respond to them, acknowledge them and treat them. This year Maggies received the Award of Excellence and was truly honoured to be recognized for my dedication and a strong belief in equity and inclusion. As well as this, Maggie is a best selling author and all-round superstar. Website - http://www.maggiefay.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/maggiefay_

Maggie Berghoff is a functional medicine nurse practitioner turned health entrepreneur.  She works with celebrity clientele, execs, and CEOs to up-level their physical and mental health and achieve peak performance. Maggie has been featured in many outlets such as Entrepreneur, Well + Good, Under Armour, CBS, NBC, Glamour, iheartradio, and national television. Maggie also mentors health and wellness clinicians and coaches in building an online business of their own. Her focus on health and wellness was part of her life for a long time, but took a much more central and personal role during a major health crisis during college and into early adulthood, culminating in a mini-stroke, amongst many other health issues that no one seemed able to solve (or even take seriously). That ignited the drive in Maggie to be her own cure, which lead her down the path she's on today. Key Points from the Episode with Maggie Berghoff: Maggie Berghoff grew up the daughter of a pharmacist, so she was very much in the Western Medicine mindset When Maggie was seven, her mother got colon Cancer (when she was just 35), went to a holistic treatment center, and came home both cured and changed in terms of her approach to wellness. That was incredibly interesting to Maggie, and lead to a strong focus on diet and how food can heal us while also being very athletic and into sports. As a result, in high school and college, she was pushing her body very hard along with the popular fitness diet of low fat, low carb. While she looked healthy, in her senior year of college when she was at 22, her body gave up and she blew up, bloated and inflamed. She tried to power through it, and event went after a Masters degree, and ended up having a mini stroke. Through everything, doctors struggled to give answers, and often just excused away what was going on. They would blame the intensity of her lifestyle, birth control she was on, hormone shifts as she got older and other things rather than seeing extreme swings in health. Over the course of a few months, she had gained 50 pounds. And no seemed to think this was a problem. On top of that, despite sleeping 10+ hours a night, she was exhausted throughout the day. A follow-up with her primary care doctor showed some abnormality in her thyroid numbers, so the doctors finally acknowledged something might be wrong. But despite that, it wasn’t blatant enough to truly see a problem, so it was still so hard to find what was wrong enough for the Western Medicine approach to spot it. And Maggie was young and fit, so despite gaining 50 pounds, she was still in the range of what most healthy people weighed, so it wasn’t a cause for concern despite the sudden and extreme shift. Some days, she would see her weight change by 12 pounds overnight, with doctors just blaming it on eating too much salty stuff at dinner. Her swelling was so extreme that she experienced pitting edema, where you can press in on a part of your body, pull your finger away, and the intent remains, like pressing your finger into mashed potatoes or clay. It is not normal, especially for someone in their early 20s who eats healthily. Her doctors gave her medicine to treat the various symptoms. While the pills helped with the symptoms, they covered up what was happening inside, leading to more and more damage, including kidney failure. Maggie is an extremely optimistic person, so she went from specialist to specialist feeling like this would be the one who figured it our and helped. With each visit, her hopes were dashed, leaving her frustrated and no closure to getting better. She got diagnosed with a rare kidney disease and zero immune function that will require immunotherapy for life. When the doctor blew her off on the back of that diagnosis (“Check in after six months,”), she had had it. She got in her car, and broke down crying. She called her mother, who gave her sage advice. Her mother said, “Maggie, no one cares as much about you as you do yourself.” She was right. And Maggie took that as catalyst to help herself, enrolling in Functional Medicine Health Coach certification on top of her grad degree and work as a nurse practitioner. She went on to solve her own health crisis through what she learned and have to children despite being told she was infertile. Maggie went back to when she was 22 or 23, and described her stroke, including trying to call her mother to tell her what was happening, and not being able to speak. On the back of her stroke diagnosis, the hospital didn’t do anything or diagnose anything. They tested her, saw that it happened, didn’t see anything currently presenting, and just discharged her. She didn’t blame the people, but more the way things work where the system does not allow you spend the time to figure out what might be going on with a patient. She shared her own experience as a nurse practitioner where she would be penalized for spending too much time with a patient. We got into the idea of finding the root cause, but Maggie feels that there isn’t really a single root cause ever. It’s a multitude of interrelated things. Ultimately, she found that she has Hashimoto’s disease (like Michelle Bronson, who shared about Hashimoto’s in Episode 75), adrenal fatigue, a parasite, H. Pylori, difficulty absorbing nutrients and more. The interplay of everything resulted in the symptoms she was living. She decided to boldly clear the deck, removing all the pills, and focusing on nourishing her body so it could focus on getting better, as it naturally wants to do. We got into the subject of trusting your gut instinct – knowing inside what we need and believing in ourselves enough to follow what feels right and avoid what feels wrong. She doesn’t just apply to our wellness, but our business, relationships, etc. We often look for external verification of our ideas, but actually, we need the internal verification and confidence that we know with every cell of our being to go forward. I asked Maggie if she’d give up her journey with all the struggles. She said unequivocally no. There are so many lessons she learned that she benefits from and can help others benefit from because of it. She wouldn’t give that up. Her perfectionism was so strong that it put her at risk at times, so she’s thankful for finding more balance around that. That perfectionism lead to judgment and shame at times, for example around having to make the decision to stop breastfeeding sooner than she had planned to. She stepped back, looked at the balance of the costs and benefits of stopping or continuing and made a balanced decision for her life. She leaves us with the simple by powerful remind that “we’ve got this!" Links: Website: http://www.maggieberghoff.com Join Maggie's Elite Business Mastermind for Clinicians and Coaches Instagram: @Maggie_berghofff Subscribe to The Do a Day Podcast    Keep Growing with Do a Day Get Bryan's best-selling first book, Do a Day, which is the inspiration for this show and can help you overcome your greatest challenges and achieve in life. Read Bryan's best-selling second book, The 50 75 100 Solution: Build Better Relationships, to tap into the power we all have to improve our relationships – even the tough ones we feel have no hope of getting better. Get started on your journey to Better with the Big Goal Exercise Work with Bryan as your coach, or hire him to speak at your next event

When Maggie and Grace Singleton were born in the same Massachusetts hospital on the exact same day, no one could have predicted that over two decades later they’d be talking about hell in KPISS FM's retro RV parked in the middle of Bushwick. Grace (who has a degree in religious studies from Princeton), Maggie, and producer Clare explore the nine circles of hell and much more in this scorcher of an episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/deadbeat/message

Amanda Hampson chats to Dani Vee about her lovely book Sixty Summers, a novel about friendship, recapturing the past and love. When Maggie, Fran and Rose met in their youth, they had dreams and ambitions. Forty years later, the three friends are turning sixty, each of them restless and disenchanted with their lives. In an attempt to recapture the sense of freedom and purpose they once possessed, they decide to retrace the steps of their 1978 backpacking trip through Europe and set off on an odyssey that will test their friendship, challenge their beliefs and redefine the third age of their lives. What could possibly go wrong?

Raders by Nelson Stanley   They called themselves the Raders, and if you didn’t know, you’d swear that they were waiting for something: a bunch of boyed-up cookers, second-string hot hatches and shopping trollies adorned with bazzing body-kits parked down at the overcliff again, throttles blipping in time to the breakbeats. Throaty roar from aftermarket back-boxes you could shove your fist up, throb of the bass counter-pointed by an occasional crack as a cheap six-by-nine gave up the ghost. Occasionally a sub overheated, leaving nothing but ear-splitting midrange and treble howling into the gale blowing rain off the sea. Mya had pushed half a pill into Maggie’s hand when the red XR2 picked her up outside the all-night Turkish takeaway, and Maggie regretted dropping it already, though at first she’d thought the high percentage of whizz in it might lend her enough chemical bravery to finally say what she wanted. Now her eyes rolled in her head and the rush made it difficult to speak. Sparks came off the edges of the headlights splitting the mizzle outside. Her nervous system uncoiled and re-knitted itself, reducing her to a warm soup through which the uppers fizzed and popped.     [Full story after the cut.] Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 72 for June 10, 2019. This is your host, Keffy, and I’m super excited to be sharing this story with you. Today we have a GlitterShip original, which starts off a new issue that you can pick up at GlitterShip.com/buy, on Gumroad at gum.co/gship08, or on Amazon, Nook, Kobo, and other ebook retailers. If you’ve been waiting to pick up your copy of the Tiptree Award Honor Listed book, GlitterShip Year Two, there’s a great deal going on for Pride over at StoryBundle. GlitterShip Year Two is part of a Pride month LGBTQ fantasy fiction bundle. StoryBundle is a pay-what-you-want bundle site. For $5 or more, you can get four great books, and for $15 or more, you’ll get an additional five books, including GlitterShip Year Two, and a story game. That comes to as little as $1.50 per book or game. The StoryBundle also offers an option to give 10% of your purchase amount to charity. The charity for this bundle is Rainbow Railroad, a charity that helps queer folks get to a safe place if their country is no longer safe for them. http://www.storybundle.com/pride Our story today is “Raders” by Nelson Stanley. Before we get to that, though, here is our poem, “Vampiric Tendencies in the Year 4500” by Renee Christopher. Renee Christopher is an SFF writer and poet currently making it through her last Iowa winter. Noble / Gas has nominated her poetry for a Pushcart, and her first short story can be found in Fireside Fiction. Follow her on Twitter @reneesunok or on Mastodon @sunok@wandering.shop   Vampiric Tendencies in the Year 4500 By Renee Christopher   Moon-sewn mothgirls clot          near light, their search for glow similar to mine. The door left          ajar          allowed us both alternate methods for creation creatures merged          with cosmic teeth. Stars managed to adapt          find those who, thick as molasses, gleamed upon the trellis          of a new future. But what I look for flutters past a stand of deer          —bright and wingless, with champagne fingers and summer tongues. At least, the searing          reminds me of a time when the sun burned hot and fast.          Now the blood  I need drips neon from above, filters through          decadent soil in a system unknown. In this quest for light          source, I am not alone.   Nelson Stanley works in an academic library in the UK. His stories have been published recently in places like The Dark Magazine, the Lethe Press anthology THCock, Black Dandy, The Gallery of Curiosities, The Sockdolager, and Tough Crime. One of his stories was included in the British Fantasy Award-winning anthology Extended Play.   Raders by Nelson Stanley   They called themselves the Raders, and if you didn’t know, you’d swear that they were waiting for something: a bunch of boyed-up cookers, second-string hot hatches and shopping trollies adorned with bazzing body-kits parked down at the overcliff again, throttles blipping in time to the breakbeats. Throaty roar from aftermarket back-boxes you could shove your fist up, throb of the bass counter-pointed by an occasional crack as a cheap six-by-nine gave up the ghost. Occasionally a sub overheated, leaving nothing but ear-splitting midrange and treble howling into the gale blowing rain off the sea. Mya had pushed half a pill into Maggie’s hand when the red XR2 picked her up outside the all-night Turkish takeaway, and Maggie regretted dropping it already, though at first she’d thought the high percentage of whizz in it might lend her enough chemical bravery to finally say what she wanted. Now her eyes rolled in her head and the rush made it difficult to speak. Sparks came off the edges of the headlights splitting the mizzle outside. Her nervous system uncoiled and re-knitted itself, reducing her to a warm soup through which the uppers fizzed and popped. Waves thrashed at the rocks below the edge of the cliff. An occasional dark shape—a seagull, perhaps, blown off-course and away from the bins—fluttered into the edges of the headlights’ glare and then reeled away into the greater darkness. Hydro and tobacco exhaust vented through half-opened drivers’ windows and flavored the edges of the sooty exhaust smoke from a dozen engines running too rich. One or other spun dustbin-lid size alloys on the wet, loose tarmac with an angry howl, holding it on the handbrake, then—just when you might think that a clutch was about to melt—drop it hard so that fat low-profiles tramped up into the suspension turrets as the tires found purchase, slewing away to nail it down the narrow cliff road, returning from its circuit a few minutes later to rejoin the loose congregation in the car park. “See. What I mean is, we could be like... See? We don’t have to like... What I mean...” Maggie trailed off, frustrated not so much, perhaps, by her inability to articulate her emotions than by the inefficiency of talking as a medium for expression itself. Why couldn’t she just touch Mya, and have her know exactly what she meant? How she felt? She chewed savagely upon the inside of her bottom lip and fervently wished she’d brought some chewing gum, breath fast through her nose. She started to roll a ciggie, but her hands were shaking and tobacco and papers seemed alive in her hands. In the driver’s seat, Mya was doing her lippy in the rear-view, an action made more difficult by the way she was surfing the breakbeats pulsing from the stereo, pausing occasionally to puff on the spliff hanging out of the other side of her mouth. With a sigh that seemed practiced she twisted her lippy shut and dropped it amongst the scree of empty Embassy No.1 packets, roached Rizla cartons, baggies and half-crushed tins of cheap cider littering the dashboard. “Look,” she said, placing both hands on the steering wheel, as if what she had to say required anchoring herself more firmly to the car, “With you now it’s all ‘What I want’ and ‘What I think is’ and it just... I knew it’d get like this. Knew it. What you don’ get is, I don’t care. It’s over, girl. Let go.” Chemicals rushed into Maggie’s head like someone filling up a bath. She was frantically rubbing a rolling paper flat between her thumbs, gaze pinned to the wrinkled rectangle as if somewhere upon it was written a way out of this, a way to get Mya back. “I suppose I do need you,” Mya went on, leaning back in the Recaro and idly picking at a blim-hole in the upholstery while puffing luxuriantly on her smoke. “But not the way you need me. I can’t be the thing you want, y’know? It was fun, while it lasted, but is what it is, girl.” She glanced over at Maggie. “But you can still help, if you like.” Maggie—lorn and reeling from the chemicals thudding through her central cortex—tried to answer, but all that came out was a small hiccuping yelp. She nodded frantically. “Jesus fuck,” Mya said, and shoved the j toward her passenger. “D’you wan’ some of that?” she said, and it seemed to Maggie that there was love in the gesture, in Mya’s voice, real love, an outpouring of care and concern, and even if it wasn’t what Maggie wanted—that surging roil in her groin, the brimming of her heart that accompanied her memories of the two of them twined together in Mya’s bed, under the Congo Natty poster, the way Mya held her hand in public once or twice, walking back through the rain and the ghost-haunted dawn, hoodies pulled up against the wind—then, still, it unlocked such a river of sweet-flowing sadness inside Maggie that she thought she might melt, right there in the XR2, melt outward in a great silent wave of warmth that blossomed from some secret core inside her body and pulsed through her, turning her flesh to something at once liquid and as evanescent as smoke. “Jesus fuck,” Mya said again, peering into Maggie’s face. “If you vom all on my Recaros I swear down I will kick you out right here, get me?”, but Maggie knew she wouldn’t, knew she wouldn’t do that, and she was right.   Outside, other cars were gathering, as if drawn by the bass or the lights, as if boyed-up hatches were sad deep-sea creatures, huddling together for mutual warmth around some abyssal vent. Inside, in the thick dusty warmth blowing out of the demister, Maggie shucked off her hoodie and T-shirt, down to her bra, worming her shoulder blades into the fabric of the passenger seat. Though she rolled her eyes at this, Mya was at least calmer now that Maggie had smoked herself into a place of happy burbling. She cranked down the window as a battered G1 CRX pulled up, fishtank lights glowing underneath the sills and an acre of filler across its back three-quarter panel as if it suffered the ravages of some terrible disease. The relentless, tinny grinding of mid-period Sick of it All pounding from the CRX met the XR2’s sweetly dubbing Jungle, twisted in the rain into a horrifying new hybrid. The boy in the CRX, baseball cap pulled down low, leaned out the window and put his hand out for a fistbump, got left hanging, pulled it in reluctantly and settled further down into his Parka. “It’s nearly time,” Mya said to him. He sniffed. “Aye.” “You gonna lead?” He shrugged, somewhat restrained by his seatbelt. “Thought you were gonna. As it’s, like, your party n’that.” All around the car-park hatches were circling now, splashing through the puddles: a well-loved 205 GTI with engine mounts so shot that it kangaroo-ed on the clutch, pitching the front-end like an obsequious underling kowtowing to its superior so that the add-on plastic chin spoiler spat a spray of gravel in front of it. A cooking Sierra twin-cam done out to look like a Cossie decided to show the front-drive pretenders what they were missing out on, and started power-oversteering around the edge of the circling hatches, back end slewing dangerously close before a hefty stomp on the throttle and an armful opposite-lock sent it whirling away. Maggie, eyes rolling saucer in her head, could only see trails of light, fireworks steaming in the dark, light spidering out of itself to scrawl the night, after-images licking at the edges of the rain. “Where we going?” she said, struggling upright in the seat, pulse thrumming up through her, a solid lump in her throat. “We’re gonna take a trip to Faerieland,” Mya said as she took the XR2 out of the carpark, the Raders peeling off after her, each trailing a respectable distance behind the other, jostling for position down the narrow slip road. “The land of the dead, the shining place on the hill where the Good Stuff comes from, where they take you when it’s all over.” Maggie watched the empty wet streets go past, everything wet and filthy, the streetlamps chrysanthemum bursts of light. The Raders peeled off and followed one-by-one in a continuous rising and falling of fat aftermarket tailpipes and tinny drum’n’bass, punctuated occasionally by the telltale clunk-woosh of a dump valve some joker had bolted on to a naturally-aspirated Golf. They snaked down the road leading from the overcliff, overly-fat radials whispering across the wet tarmac then ka-thumping awkwardly as they bottomed out on the potholes because they’d lowered their suspension by cutting their coil springs with an angle grinder. “Think on,” said Mya, checking her reflection in the rear-view, “Think, Maggie. A place—well, not quite a place—somewhere they talk in the high-pitched whistle of bats, words you hear not with your ears but something lodged in the back of your brain. They got stuff there, one tiny hit’ll burn through your soul, let you touch the face of God and strip away your skin, make you forget all the shit life drops in your lap.” Beyond the glass, the neon frontage on dingy shops and cheap bars spread and blurred in firework streaks. Maggie convulsed in her seatbelt, clawing at the tensioner as it ratcheted too-tightly around her stomach. The XR2 lurched over a speed-bump outside Syndicate—the townie girls lined up on the wet pavement clutching their purses, tugging ineffectually at two inches’ of skirt as the rain blew in sideways from the seafront, the young boys with too much hair product reeking of cheap body-spray and grabbing their crotches as they shotgunned cans of lager—and for a second Maggie thought she might actually be sick, but luckily it passed. “A place where you never have to think,” said Mya, idly flicking ash off the end of her j as she took to the wrong side of the road to pass a dawdling hatchback—big swoosh of locked brakes against wet tarmac, cacophony of horns blaring into the night—“Where you never get hungry, or sad, or old.” Maggie opened her mouth to speak, but Mya chose that moment to take the inside, getting both nearside wheels up on the curb as she passed a recovery lorry turning on to the main road, orange spinning light sending weird tiger stripes strobing across the interior of the XR2. As Mya straightened up, fighting the bit of aquaplane as she brought it level, she continued: “There was this girl, see. She was just like any other. Stupid but not free. She met another girl, and fell in love. The sex was fucking epic—” and at this Maggie gave a low moan—“for starters, but wasn’t just meat-meet, wasn’t just something in the cunt or the brain or the blood. This other girl showed the first one things she’d never seen. A new way of looking at the world—” Traffic lights bloomed like fireworks through the rain-swept windscreen as Mya, faced with the inconvenience of a stop signal, took a shortcut through the carpark of a pub, narrowly missing someone’s Transit pulling out of a space then nipping back into the snarl of traffic, agonised howls of horns behind them like the baying of something monstrous. “A new pair of eyes.” Maggie nodded, chewing on her bottom lip. “The world seemed changed,” Mya went on. “Everything was magic.” The speed of their passage smeared the neon of a kebab shop across the night, and Maggie, her hand up to wave away a stray strand of hair that she swore was scuttling across her face like a spider, was left staring, open-mouthed, soul tightening in her throat as it sought to escape the skin, astonished at the colored lights crawling and twisting across her skin. “She showed her things she never dreamed existed, never dreamed could exist. Then, her lover told this girl that she couldn’t have her, that it wasn’t to be. Where her lover came from, she said, that place was different to ours, and she had to go back there. She came from far away, from a place out beyond the days of working shit jobs for the man and burning up your nights in Rizlas and watching them drift,” Mya said, exhaling a long cloud of dope smoke. As it hit the windscreen and flattened out Maggie watched the coils interpolate and shiver in a slow-motion swirl, and the spirals twisted and convulsed and in the whirl there were bodies churning, moving against each other in a liquid tumble, figures clotted together and sliding through each other and as she watched featureless heads opened empty mouths in silent screams of ecstasy and lust— Taking another big roundabout, Mya let the XR2 go sideways for shits and giggles, whoosh of tires on wet asphalt, and the stately procession of the Raders followed, each making the same playful half-wobble in the Ford’s wake, then out on the ring-road past industrial estates lit up garishly by high-powered halogens. Maggie dry-swallowed the lump in her throat, convulsed slightly, gasped out: “I think I’m gonna need another pill, if we’re going to a rave.” Mya ignored her. “This other lover, she told the girl she was in deep, that where she came from they never died, but every so often one of them had to pay a price, tithe to the Man Who Waits, the Man Who Must Be Paid, and that it was her turn to pay.” On the edge of a judder of chemicals as they sped down the pulsing freeways of her blood, Maggie found her voice: “I’d’ve loved to have gone to a rave with you. We never did, did we? There was that big one, down by the river, in the old tire factory? We never made it,” and she trailed off, the memory of that night coming back to hit her: going round someone’s house to score, the crunch of the purple-y crystals in the baggie with the smiley on it. Too greedy to wait, they’d each cut a line that glistened like finely-ground glass on the back of a CD case, huffed it back, shrieking and clapping and giggling at the burn as it dissolved their mucus membranes. They’d staggered out of the dealer’s house arm-in-arm, already giggling, bathed in the streetlamp’s orange glow, hands slipping between hoodies and jeans against the cold. Before they knew it they were fucking each other raw in an alley behind the closed-down Tesco Express, panting against the bins, colors streaming from the edges of their vision as fingers worked in the cold.   Mya’s hand dropped swiftly off the gearstick, squeezed Maggie’s knee. “Nearly there,” she whispered. Maggie was halfway to replying “No, no you fucking weren’t, with the Mollie you took ages to come, I had to go down on you, knees in a puddle, my Diesels got fucking wet through,” when she looked up, and saw. The lights of a deserted superstore glowing through the murk like the warning lights of a ship out at sea. To either side light industrial units glowered through the rain. Something that might’ve been a dog scurried through the puddles collecting on the uneven tarmac, shook itself, then squeezed through the gap in a fence and was gone. The road descended as it cut across a valley. At the top of the valley sides, brooding behind razor wire, huge dark shapes reared against the night sky. The XR2 turned up a driveway you could get an articulated lorry through, between steep banks choked with wet gorse. She pulled up in a huge open space across which the low-profiles bucked and jinked, big wheels nervous over the ruts. Ahead of them, a locked gate, skin of plate iron welded onto a framework of quarter-inch box-section, topped with barbed wire like icing on a birthday cake, stained with something that shone dark in the backwash off the streetlights, something that might’ve been oil. “Mya, babe,” said Maggie, “where the fuck are we?” The rest of the Raders, fallen behind in traffic or cut off from the XR2 by stop lights, began to wheel out of the night on to the forecourt, pulling up in a rough circle. One by one, the engines died, leaving just the reflections of their under-sill lights on the wet tarmac and their headlights cutting through the rain, deepening the shadows on the huge organic-seeming shapes sprawled up the side of the valley. From behind the ringing in her ears, Maggie thought she heard a sound far-off like bells, irregular, plangent, as if they’d taken a wrong turn and were down by the sea and could hear the ships still rolling at anchor in the wind, or when you’d gone to a free party and got mashed and passed out next to a sixteen foot high speaker and woke up with your head ringing and chiming, every sound distant and jangling for the next few days. Mya smiled, leaned back in the driver’s seat, pulled another joint from a crevice on the dash, held it by the twist-shut and shook it to level it out. “This is Faerieland, babe.” Mya, an easy smile playing about her lips, sparked up the j. Maggie, spiking on another wave off her pill, nodded, started frantically chewing out her lip. “Is this like when we—” Mya pressed a finger to her lips and the dry knuckle against Maggie’s mouth smelled of hash and tobacco and the pleasantly artificial tang of raspberry lipstick. “This is like nothing you’ve ever seen,” she said, her voice a whisper. “Now. Why don’t you unclasp your seatbelt?” Maggie fancied she could hear a sort of whistling twitter, a high-pitched oscillation at the edge of hearing, like weaponized tinnitus. The noise got under her skin, wormed its way inside her nerves, crawled along her limbs and set itself just behind her eyes, where it fluttered and beat against the inside of her head like a moth caught in a lampshade. The noise—and whatever she’d taken—made it difficult for her to think straight. She rubbed frantically at her eyes, which seemed to have dried out, and a starshell burst across her vision. “It’s nearly time,” Mya said, taking a deep hit off her j. “They’re here.” When Maggie looked again, things were moving in the darkness at the edge of the headlights, detaching themselves with a slinking motion from the huge shapes up on top of the hill, flowing through the night, drawing near to the edge of the pale circles cast by the Raders. Then—just when she thought she might be able to see what they were—edging back, staying tantalizingly out of reach. They moved on all fours. There was the suggestion of an angular, branched shape, like a four-branch exhaust manifold. A headlight found the edge of one of them for a second, but they were gone so quickly it was impossible to make anything else out other than the suggestion of wet fur, oil-slick pelt, stealthy stalking in the ebon night. “What the fuck we doing, Mya?” Mya shook her off. She held her right hand out of the car, in the rain, as if leaning to get the ticket from a tollbooth, then let it drop. The headlights of the Raders went off in a volley, and the night bloomed with afterimages that writhed violet and ultramarine and a pure, actinic cobalt that burned into Maggie’s retinas as if she’d been staring intently at the base of a MIG welder. Through or under these distortions moved other, darker shapes, suggested by the gaps between the swirling colors on the edges of the twisting light. The chittering increased, like the noise a tweeter made if you wired it in when spliffed up so that it was grounding to earth via the RCA connector. “The only way this girl’s lover could be free, was if someone could take her place.” Mya smiled at Maggie, and there was sadness in it, a sadness that wrenched Maggie so that she jerked and flopped, a spasming convulsion that took all of her strength from her and left her hanging from the seatbelt, spent and useless as a discarded condom hanging from a fence. She tried to raise her head and it sagged useless and boneless on her neck. The darkness rippled and shifted. Something was pulling itself in to existence, shapes coalescing from darkness, shapes Maggie half-recognized, tantalized as they formed then—just on the cusp of understanding—flowed into something else. Waves of prickling heat chased themselves across her, as if she was coming up again, but she was cold, bone cold, breath shallow like one nearing death, alone and lost in some icy hell. Mya slipped her own seatbelt off and stepped outside, into the hush. She opened Maggie’s door and unclipped the belt, and Maggie fell forward, body gone liquid and useless, all her bones melted into a delicious slow ooze. The kiddie from the CRX with the baseball cap appeared at her side, and together he and Mya hauled Maggie out of the seat, trainers skidding on uneven greasy concrete, half-carried and half-dragged her limp scarecrow body between them, laid her gently on the wet rough cement. A shipwreck puddled on the ground, Maggie’s eyes rolled up to the looming outlines against the clouds, and suddenly—with a burst of icy clarity like a siren cutting through your high, telling you it was time to fuck off out of the rave and head for home—she knew where she was. This, this was the place where the dead go. She could smell it, corruption, the sickly smell of ancient automotive glass gone sugary and fragile, of prehistoric hydraulic grease thickening like wax as it seeped back to the tar whence it came, fishy castor-oil tang of gone-off brake fluid and the tired dead-dinosaur ghost-smell of very old petrol, an undercurrent of spoiling, long-banned industrial pollutants, the waxy whiff of chrome-effect plastic as it expired in the wind. Immense effort, all she had, everything given to a squirm of her neck, cheek scraped by wet concrete, and she could see—how could she see? Vision finally adjusted to darkness or some passing benediction of whatever it was Mya had given her?—a makeshift board up on the slope, where someone had painted the word “FAERIELAND” in thick daubs of blue paint. Behind and above it, the huge misshapen outlines against the sky resolved themselves, trompe l’oeil turning the vast near-organic mass to cars piled atop each other in collapsing columns, sprawling aggregation of vehicular death, charnel-house of discarded bangers, piles of engines rearing against the sky like hearts piled up after some battlefield atrocity, ragged rusting wings hanging off like torn pinions of dying angels, Mcpherson strut-assemblies unbolted but left attached so that they dangled from brake lines like new appendages extruded by some automotive nightmare creature testing which shape would be best to crawl out of its pit and stalk across the land, delivering vengeance to those who’d left it here after years of faithful service, those who deserted it to rot in the polluted air and sink slowly into the mire of mud and the butchered remnants of its comrades. The place where the dead go. Faerieland. The land of the dead. And, out from that huge pile of automotive corpses, out from under the shattered sills and pent-in roofs, flowing out like poison from trailing umbilical fuel lines and ventricles of disassembled engines, from the aortas of shattered fuel injection systems, from underneath chassis twisted like paper and from cracked-open gearboxes, out from the jeweled synchromesh and delicately-splined shafts of sundered transaxles and torn-open wiring harnesses spewing copper filaments like multicolored nerves, they came. The real Raders, the OG crew. They poured into the space before the cars like oil hitting water, as their forms adjusted to the limits of their new environment. They made the stuff of the night sing across human neurons and their wake through what we call the real produced a noise like far-off carillons of many bells and a chittering like angry bats. As they came down the hill the air hummed with their presence, spat and crackled and buzzed like high-voltage lines in wet weather, like a pylon singing to itself in the rain. The scrapyard smell receded and the night filled with the evanescent, sickly-sweet smell of violets—flickering across the nose then gone!—then an overpowering burst of eglantine and woodbine, stopping up the throat like death. The steeds they rose had lashed themselves together out of the rotting pile of scrap: corrugated flanks flaking away in oxide scabs, stamping hooves fashioned from brake discs, hydraulic piping and flex from cable looms bulging like sinews at their shoulders, mismatched headlamps for the eyes, exhaust-smoke breath billowing out in clouds from fanged maws made from the teeth of gearwheels and the lobes of camshafts. Their hounds were vast and black and bayed silently at their sides, the thick ruff of their pelt giving way at the shoulder to gleaming metal that heaved and rippled like flesh along the necks that held their great steel-antlered heads aloft. Impossible, implacable, reveling in their alien exhilaration, driven by compulsions innominate and terrible, they poured out into the night, churning up the bank as they came for Maggie. She sat blinking—unbelieving—as her doom streamed down the hill toward her, heart thudding slow in her chest. The Raders watched, for a time. Then, one by one, they fired up their engines and followed Mya’s XR2, as it swept back out onto the rainy streets. END   "Raders" is copyright Nelson Stanley 2019. "Vampiric Tendencies in the Year 4500" is copyright Renee Christopher, 2019. This recording is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license which means you can share it with anyone you’d like, but please don’t change or sell it. 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Maggie Berghoff epitomizes what it means to be an expert. She had an existing problem, solved it, healed, and developed a passion to help others do the same. Today you’ll find her working with high-end entrepreneurs and celebrity figures, helping them optimize their health for an optimal life. All because she knew how to leverage her experience.   In this episode, functional medicine expert Maggie Berghoff explains how her health struggles paved the way to working with 7 and 8-figure entrepreneurs.   Episode Topics Common health pitfalls of busy entrepreneurs Flaws in the US healthcare system How Maggie’s mentor protocol reversed her autoimmunity What is functional medicine? 6 environmental stressors that impact health How Maggie attracted high-end clients Intuition, self-awareness, and being your own advocate Clicking with the right mentor Environmental optimization for better health How Maggie finds her best clients Is coffee good or bad? Experts corner: Maggie on hiring a health practitioner   [4:54] Starting line: When Maggie was 22, she was going to school to be a nurse practitioner when her 'body cracked.’ Multiple doctors were unable to diagnose her health ailments.   [7:57] Dr. Doom: A specialist diagnosed her with a rare kidney disease and told her nothing could be done. She was prescribed IV therapy 3x a week for the rest of her life…then scheduled to see him again in 6 months.   [8:35] Tipping point: "After that, I got in my car and bawled my eyes out and knew that I'm the only one that cares enough about me to go the extra mile and figure this out."   [11:02] Lightbulb moment: Her Aunt was seeing a functional medicine doctor at the time and Maggie discovered it was everything she wanted.   [11:39] Hiring a Mentor: She was trained as a functional medicine practitioner and hired a functional doctor to mentor her. He taught her unique practices that aligned with her beliefs.   [14:12] Business model development: Maggie started planning her future in functional med during her maternity leave in January 2017.   [15:17] Turning point: “I have an obligation to spread my words with people who are struggling and still going to traditional medical doctors for these things and decided enough is enough.”   [18:16] Healthy Transformation: Within 6 months of following her mentor's protocol, Maggie's symptoms disappeared. She also got pregnant after thinking it wasn't possible. [21:17] "That's the true definition of an expert...you have to be the spitting image of what your clients want to become." [23:28] First client: Paige was a 22-year-old woman who struggled with skin issues and bloating. They met in a sauna at a gym. [24:56] Ideal client hunting: random situations, in-person relationships, and referrals. “Warm network will always be the best clients because they know, like, and already trust you.”   [25:34] Client satisfaction: Paige's skin and bloating issues went away within a week of working with Maggie.   [26:42] Sacrificing security: Maggie left her secure nursing job to pursue her passion full time. "Even though I see less people, I'm making way bigger of an impact than I did seeing 50 people every single day, giving them pills at the hospital."   [28:07] Shift to 8-figure clients: Through networking and mastermind events, she started attracting a mix of high-end entrepreneurs, socialite women, and successful executives.   [32:08] Coffee talk: Maggie shares her expertise and gives it to us straight…is coffee good or bad?   [34:09] Experts corner: Maggie on hiring a health practitioner Mass programs may offer steps that don’t apply to your life Hire a clinician you trust that does 1on 1 so you get the attention you need Direct attention makes it easy for you to follow protocol “They’re like a micromanager for your health.”   [38:46] A glimpse into Maggie’s Balance Protocol and what it's like to work with her.     Connect with MaggieBerghoff.com

Aired Monday, 15 January 2018, 4:00 PM ET Planting the Seeds of Wealth and Prosperity Are you planting the seeds for your future to be full of wealth and prosperity? What actions can you take and what tools can you put to work that will change and enhance your wealth and prosperity? Join Maggie Emerson as she walks you through some fun tools and ways to planting and watering the seeds of wealth and prosperity. About the Guest: Maggie Emerson Are you an adventurer at heart? Maggie sure is!!! One of Maggie’s greatest joys and gifts is to assist others to use question, choice, possibility, and contribution as a way to create greater in business and in the world. When Maggie is not facilitating classes or one on one sessions, you will find her traveling the world, discovering trails to explore and adventuring wherever she may roam. Some of Maggie’s favorite adventures have included cycle touring New Zealand while pulling her then two year old son behind her and spending three months living in a VW camper van touring the European Alps while hiking, biking, and truly enjoying the thrill living an adventurous life. Maggie believes business truly can be done anywhere, at any time and with great amounts of fun and joy. And best of all, if you include your body in the creation of your life, living and business, it gets better by the day!! What if you too could have the joy and adventure of living that is possible when you put the tools of the Joy of Business and Access Consciousness into action? You can find Maggie at: http://maggieschlarb.com

Aired Monday, 25 December 2017, 4:00 PM ET Are You A Savvy Entrepreneur Join Emerson as she interviews Devarati Angela Salmon about her 3 top ways of being a Savvy Entrepreneur. Find out how meditation, accounting, and creativity actually work together to create more in your life and business. In this episode you will also discover different and speedy ways to let go and allow all your asks to come to you with ease. Guest Bios: Are you an adventurer at heart? Maggie sure is!!! One of Maggie’s greatest joys and gifts is to assist others to use question, choice, possibility, and contribution as a way to create greater in business and in the world. When Maggie is not facilitating classes or one on one sessions, you will find her traveling the world, discovering trails to explore and adventuring wherever she may roam. Some of Maggie’s favorite adventures have included cycle touring New Zealand while pulling her then two year old son behind her and spending three months living in a VW camper van touring the European Alps while hiking, biking, and truly enjoying the thrill living an adventurous life. Maggie believes business truly can be done anywhere, at any time and with great amounts of fun and joy. And best of all, if you include your body in the creation of your life, living and business, it gets better by the day!! What if you too could have the joy and adventure of living that is possible when you put the tools of the Joy of Business and Access Consciousness into action? You can find Maggie at: http://maggieschlarb.com Devarati Angela Sammon invites you to awareness from a space of Joy with her contagious laughter and a space of greater possibilities and total presence. Devarati is a business mentor, personal development speaker, meditation instructor, event organizer and a celebrated jewellery designer. She draws some of her capacities from being an Access Consciousness Facilitator as well as a Right Body for You Taster Facilitator, Joy of Business and Being You Facilitator and a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA). Able to balance the logic of accounting with the creativity of design and the mindfulness of spiritual practice, Devarati is renowned for both her joie de vivre, and her ability to bring a broader perspective to any situation.

Aired Monday, 4 December 2017, 4:00 PM ET Putting the YOU back in Your Business! Are you treating yourself as a valuable asset in your business? What is required to create a space of nourishment and joy for you so that you can have the joy of business in each moment? Join Maggie Emerson, JCF and Dr Nicola Dehlinger for a fun and dynamic conversation about nourishment and the many ways you can start to take care of you so you can not only show up for your business, but show up for you in a way that expands every area of your life. Guest Bios: Are you an adventurer at heart? Maggie sure is!!! One of Maggie’s greatest joys and gifts is to assist others to use question, choice, possibility, and contribution as a way to create greater in business and in the world. When Maggie is not facilitating classes or one on one sessions, you will find her traveling the world, discovering trails to explore and adventuring wherever she may roam. Some of Maggie’s favorite adventures have included cycle touring New Zealand while pulling her then two year old son behind her and spending three months living in a VW camper van touring the European Alps while hiking, biking, and truly enjoying the thrill living an adventurous life. Maggie believes business truly can be done anywhere, at any time and with great amounts of fun and joy. And best of all, if you include your body in the creation of your life, living and business, it gets better by the day!! What if you too could have the joy and adventure of living that is possible when you put the tools of the Joy of Business and Access Consciousness into action? You can find Maggie at: http://maggieschlarb.com Dr. Nicola St. Mary received her B.A. in International Health from Brown University in 1997, graduating with honors. Dr. Nicola completed her Naturopathic Medical Degree from the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in 2004. After completing medical school, Dr. Nicola worked with HIV+ patients at Phoenix Body Positive where she utilized her Spanish fluency working with the Latino community. In 2006, Dr. Nicola moved to Durango, CO to co-found Open Sky, a wilderness therapy program for young adults and adolescents coping with emotional health challenges. Today, Dr. Nicola sees clients in her naturopathic medical practice, Pura Vida Natural Healthcare, in Durango. She is highly trained to treat a wide variety of physical and emotional conditions but maintains a special focus on anxiety, depression, insomnia, and stress/fatigue-related disorders. In addition to seeing clients, Dr. Nicola teaches a variety of classes around the community. She also leads a variety of retreats where there is space to deepen into our wellness plans and ourselves. Dr. Nicola offers a variety of programs to support worksite wellness. From simple one-hour classes on Stress Management to full-day workshops on how Wellness at Work creates a more positive work environment while improving your bottom line, Dr. Nicola customizes her retreats to best suit the need of each company. In her free time, you can find her in the mountains, the garden, or the kitchen, enjoying time with her son and partner. Find out more at: doctornicola.com and puravidahealthcare.com

Aired Monday, 20 November 2017, 4:00 PM ET Finding Your Flow in Business & Life No business is ever the same, and you are not the same as any other business owner. There are so many formula’s out there to create business that we are told we MUST follow to have success? What if your true formula to success was (and is) following what works for you? What are your unique talents and abilities that are the keys to your success? In this show discover Maggie’s ease-filled ways of letting go and inviting yourself to follow the energy throughout each day to allow yourself to continuously create your life with ease, by way of following what works for you. About the Guest: Maggie Emerson Are you an adventurer at heart? Maggie sure is!!! One of Maggie’s greatest joys and gifts is to assist others to use question, choice, possibility, and contribution as a way to create greater in business and in the world. When Maggie is not facilitating classes or one on one sessions, you will find her traveling the world, discovering trails to explore and adventuring wherever she may roam. Some of Maggie’s favorite adventures have included cycle touring New Zealand while pulling her then two year old son behind her and spending three months living in a VW camper van touring the European Alps while hiking, biking, and truly enjoying the thrill living an adventurous life. Maggie believes business truly can be done anywhere, at any time and with great amounts of fun and joy. And best of all, if you include your body in the creation of your life, living and business, it gets better by the day!! What if you too could have the joy and adventure of living that is possible when you put the tools of the Joy of Business and Access Consciousness into action? You can find Maggie at: http://maggieschlarb.com

Aired Monday, 16 October 2017, 4:00 PM ET Being Bad In Business What if being bad was your greatest asset? Join Maggie Schlarb and Gabrielle Vena where they share the tools that allow them to have the joy of creating business on their terms. What if everything you thought you did wrong in business was actually a strongness? Are you willing to see your gifts and talents in a whole new perspective? Guest Bios: Gabrielle’s “work” is also her greatest source for play, joy and fun! A former Psychotherapist, she is now an Access Consciousness Certified Facilitator specializing in Joy of Business. She has a gift for being present with clients and perceiving what someone could choose in their lives, with their business, and what they can be, even if they don’t see it themselves yet. She has a unique perspective on business, as she has re-created her career several times, always being willing to choose towards what is going to create more ease, fun and fulfillment, even in the face of judgment. Facilitating people to discover their unique brilliance and use it to their advantage lights her up. Gabrielle has an acute awareness of where people limit themselves; that, coupled with an allowance, openness and humor which puts people at ease creates a space where clients more easily uncover the source of obstacles, and use their awareness and the tools they are learning to create a different possibility. When she isn’t traveling the world sharing the brilliance of Access Consciousness she lives in a beach suburb of Los Angeles, with her 2 (wacky and wonderful) dogs. You can connect with her at: gabriellevena.com Are you an adventurer at heart? Maggie sure is!!! One of Maggie’s greatest joys and gifts is to assist others to use question, choice, possibility, and contribution as a way to create greater in business and in the world. When Maggie is not facilitating classes or one on one sessions, you will find her traveling the world, discovering trails to explore and adventuring wherever she may roam. Some of Maggie’s favorite adventures have included cycle touring New Zealand while pulling her then two year old son behind her and spending three months living in a VW camper van touring the European Alps while hiking, biking, and truly enjoying the thrill living an adventurous life. Maggie believes business truly can be done anywhere, at any time and with great amounts of fun and joy. And best of all, if you include your body in the creation of your life, living and business, it gets better by the day!! What if you too could have the joy and adventure of living that is possible when you put the tools of the Joy of Business and Access Consciousness into action? You can find Maggie at: http://maggieschlarb.com

Aired Monday, 18 September 2017, 4:00 PM ET Are You An Adventurous Entrepreneur? What are the elements of adventure that you can add to your business? Do you know? Join Maggie Schlarb, Joy of Business Facilitator and adventurer extraordinaire and discover the six qualities of adventure that can lead to better business growth and success. About Maggie Schlarb: Are you an adventurer at heart? Maggie sure is!!! One of Maggie’s greatest joys and gifts is to assist others to use question, choice, possibility, and contribution as a way to create greater in business and in the world. When Maggie is not facilitating classes or one on one sessions, you will find her traveling the world, discovering trails to explore and adventuring wherever she may roam. Some of Maggie’s favorite adventures have included cycle touring New Zealand while pulling her then two year old son behind her and spending three months living in a VW camper van touring the European Alps while hiking, biking, and truly enjoying the thrill living an adventurous life. Maggie believes business truly can be done anywhere, at any time and with great amounts of fun and joy. And best of all, if you include your body in the creation of your life, living and business, it gets better by the day!! What if you too could have the joy and adventure of living that is possible when you put the tools of the Joy of Business and Access Consciousness into action? You can find Maggie at: http://maggieschlarb.com

Aired Monday, 18 September 2017, 4:00 PM ET Are You An Adventurous Entrepreneur? What are the elements of adventure that you can add to your business? Do you know? Join Maggie Schlarb, Joy of Business Facilitator and adventurer extraordinaire and discover the six qualities of adventure that can lead to better business growth and success. About Maggie Schlarb: Are you an adventurer at heart? Maggie sure is!!! One of Maggie’s greatest joys and gifts is to assist others to use question, choice, possibility, and contribution as a way to create greater in business and in the world. When Maggie is not facilitating classes or one on one sessions, you will find her traveling the world, discovering trails to explore and adventuring wherever she may roam. Some of Maggie’s favorite adventures have included cycle touring New Zealand while pulling her then two year old son behind her and spending three months living in a VW camper van touring the European Alps while hiking, biking, and truly enjoying the thrill living an adventurous life. Maggie believes business truly can be done anywhere, at any time and with great amounts of fun and joy. And best of all, if you include your body in the creation of your life, living and business, it gets better by the day!! What if you too could have the joy and adventure of living that is possible when you put the tools of the Joy of Business and Access Consciousness into action? You can find Maggie at: http://maggieschlarb.com

Aired Monday, 21 August 2017, 4:00 PM ET Creating A Business That Works For You Is it time to get out of the box and create a business that works for you? What if the way you do business is totally different than even those in the same type of business as you? There are so many formula’s and ‘how-to’s’ in business. What if you could pick and choose from these formula’s and create the recipe that works just for you and your lifestyle? Join Heather Nichols and Maggie Schlarb for a conversation on how you too can create a business that works for you and your desired lifestyle. Guest Bios: Heather Nichols born and raised in California, Heather Nichols is a creator of magnitude, never taking ‘no’ for an answer. She has a capacity to see what she can add, create, tweak, change, and expand to make her life– and the lives of those around her– greater than imaginable. Heather has owned a large movement studio and healing spa, run a private practice as a Psychotherapist, taught mind-body movement, and facilitated countless workshops and trainings in the field of transformation. Today, Heather’s work is largely informed by the tools and practices of Access Consciousness, her extensive background in the healing arts, and her own personal willingness to do whatever it takes to effect change. She brings to her work a fierce commitment to create joy, ease, and wealth on the planet–in every area of life. Website: www.heathernichols.com Are you an adventurer at heart? Maggie sure is!!! One of Maggie’s greatest joys and gifts is to assist others to use question, choice, possibility, and contribution as a way to create greater in business and in the world. When Maggie is not facilitating classes or one on one sessions, you will find her traveling the world, discovering trails to explore and adventuring wherever she may roam. Some of Maggie’s favorite adventures have included cycle touring New Zealand while pulling her then two year old son behind her and spending three months living in a VW camper van touring the European Alps while hiking, biking, and truly enjoying the thrill living an adventurous life. Maggie believes business truly can be done anywhere, at any time and with great amounts of fun and joy. And best of all, if you include your body in the creation of your life, living and business, it gets better by the day!! What if you too could have the joy and adventure of living that is possible when you put the tools of the Joy of Business and Access Consciousness into action? You can find Maggie at: maggieschlarb.com

Aired Monday, 31 July 2017, 4:00 PM ET Business On The Move Guest Bios: Maggie Schlarb Are you an adventurer at heart? Maggie sure is!!! One of Maggie’s greatest joys and gifts is to assist others to use question, choice, possibility, and contribution as a way to create greater in business and in the world. When Maggie is not facilitating classes or one on one sessions, you will find her traveling the world, discovering trails to explore and adventuring wherever she may roam. Some of Maggie’s favorite adventures have included cycle touring New Zealand while pulling her then two year old son behind her and spending three months living in a VW camper van touring the European Alps while hiking, biking, and truly enjoying the thrill living an adventurous life. Maggie believes business truly can be done anywhere, at any time and with great amounts of fun and joy. And best of all, if you include your body in the creation of your life, living and business, it gets better by the day!! What if you too could have the joy and adventure of living that is possible when you put the tools of the Joy of Business and Access Consciousness into action? You can find Maggie at: maggieschlarb.com Rebecca Hulse Rebecca Hulse is an author, speaker, Joy of Business Certified Facilitator and possibility-maker. She is an Access Consciousness® Certified Facilitator, event organiser and consultant, who revels in shaking up the realities and limiting paradigms of her clients. Having completed her first “bucket list” by age 20, Rebecca is the personification of her motto “Impossible is Temporary”. Rebecca is the author of three books and regularly speaks to a global audience on business, consciousness, bodies, being and sex. At 24 years of age, she is a go-getting, jet-setting millennial. She has experienced firsthand the power of opportunity and strives to constantly push the boundaries of what she is capable of, both personally and professionally. Her writing has been featured in MindBodyGreen, NotSalmon, Wild Sister, My Yoga Online, Elephant Journal, Girlfriendology, Classy Career Girl, TeraWarner.com, OM Times, and AccessConsiousness.com just to name a few. You can explore possibilities with Rebecca casually on Facebook, in a private session any time via skype or in person wherever she is, through her online programs, classes and recordings available at rebeccahulse.com and in her Joy of Business classes.

Maggie Patterson is a communications strategist and Chief Marketing Officer at Scoop Industries. With 15+ years’ experience (11 of which as a self-employed consultant), Maggie has spent her entire career working in client-facing roles in marketing and as a copywriter. Today, she works with service-based business owners to help them implement smart strategies for business growth. She’s the co-host of the Service Business Success podcast, a Master Level Content Marketer as awarded by Copyblogger and her work has been widely published by leading websites including Virgin.com, Fastcompany.com and more. Click to tweet: .@magspatterson is sharing her story to inspire you on Women Taking the Lead https://womentakingthelead.com/219 #inspiration Playing Small Moment Maggie was the epitome of playing small, until a trip of lifetime with her husband changed everything. While she was unplugged, she realized life was too short to do work that didn’t make her happy. When Maggie got home, she transitioned her clients and within 6-7 months, she was working for micro small companies and much happier. The Wake Up Call Maggie was possessive of her business and felt that she had to do all of the tasks herself. Maggie’s coach pointed out that she was making a decent income and it was time to outsource. After hiring her first virtual assistant, Maggie noticed an astounding difference in her revenue. Now, she has full-time employees! Style of Leadership Maggie views herself as a renegade leader, as she doesn’t do rules very well. Understanding that she can still have her vision/goals, but as a leader part of her role is giving her team permission to improve on her ways. Not apologizing for being “too bossy” or “too much” To be the renegade and own that has been amazing for her. What Are You Excited About? For the last year, Maggie and her business partner have been mentoring women who are stuck and help them move through it by focusing on whats important in the business. Ultimately, they focus on going back to basics. Current Business Challenge Maggie battles with her inner critic and an imposter complex, but she is always evolving and figuring it out. “That inner critic? Man, she is mean!” Maggie doesn’t let it get her down, but it’s always present during the important and scary things that are necessary for success. Leadership Practice Maggie is a prolific planner and often works in 12 week sprints. Advice For Younger Self “Oh you got this girl. Go do it!” So many times we hold ourselves back, so she would give younger Maggie the nudge needed to go do it. Inspirational Quote “I run this day. This day does not run me, because otherwise, chaos will ensue.” Links Website: http://www.scoopindustries.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/scoopindustries Twitter: @magspatterson Thank You to Our Sponsors Fanchest: Sports gift boxes loaded with products from your guy’s favorite team, in the perfect packaging delivered right to their door. Licensed apparel and fun surprises any sports fan will love. Free shipping and free returns. Enter promo code Jodi to get $10 off! www.fanchest.com Zebralove Web Solutions: Your website tells a story about your business! At Zebralove Web Solutions, Milly and her team are going to make sure your website tells the story you want your customers to hear. Connect with Milly at zebralovewebsolutions.com to create the impression you want to make! Resources Private Facebook Community: Chat, share and collaborate with other women in the community! Accomplished: How to Go from Dreaming to Doing: A simple, step by step system that gives you the foundation and structure to take your goals and make them happen. The Accomplished Community: A community of entrepreneurial Type A women uniting to achieve their biggest goals with confidence, integrity and a sense of humor. Subscribe to Women Taking the Lead If you enjoyed this episode subscribe in iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play Music or iHeart Radio and never miss out on inspiration and community!

Imagine finding that you are genetically predisposed for the genetic mutation BRCA2. According to the National Cancer Institute, BRCA2 (Breast Cancer 2, Early Onset) is "a gene on chromosome 13 that normally helps to suppress cell growth. These proteins help repair damaged DNA and, therefore, play a role in ensuring the stability of the cell's genetic material. When either of these genes is mutated, or altered, such that its protein product either is not made or does not function correctly, DNA damage may not be repaired properly. As a result, cells are more likely to develop additional genetic alterations that can lead to cancer." When Maggie discovered she carried the BRCA2 gene, she took immediate action and began the run for her life. Hear how she reacted when faced with this life-threatening medical issue and how her husband helped her recover and find her new passion. She was quoted in the Army Times as saying "I want women to get tested…I want them to know there are others out there experiencing the same thing, others who have been through it," Smith said. "Men are carriers too -- get tested." Follow Mentors for Military: iTunes: http://apple.co/1WaEvbB SoundCloud: www.soundcloud.com/mentors4mil Instagram: www.instagram.com/mentors4mil Twitter: www.twitter.com/mentors4mil Facebook: www.facebook.com/mentors4mil Homepage: www.mentorsformilitary.com

Millions of people read Rustic Wedding Chic, which is the #1 resource for rustic and country weddings online. What you may not know is this popular wedding blog is run by a Mom of 2 with her 3rd on the way, Maggie Lord. Maggie calls herself a naptime entrepreneur and we SO resonate with that idea. Welcome to the show, Maggie! We’re so excited to have you! On the Podcast 1:10 - An Inspired Bride3:01 - Curating A Site5:50 - Solving Problems Through A Directory Site7:01 - Monetizing Your Platform9:52 - Advice For A Blogger Building A Platform12:20 - Working With A Team16:27 - Working with Freelance Photographers17:40 - Growing A Pinterest Following20:06 - Thoughts on Content Schedulers22:55 -  What Makes A Popular Pin25:26 - A Frequent Pinner27:50 - Testing Out Promoted Pins29:34 - Maggie’s Embarrassing Mompreneur Moment Listen Now   An Inspired Bride When Maggie and her husband were planning their wedding 9 years ago, she had a very clear vision for how she wanted things to look. She pictured a rustic but chic and elegant feel for her northern Wisconsin, small town wedding, but struggled to translate it to vendors. There was no Pinterest or Instagram 9 years ago (can you believe it!?) and Maggie found it difficult to plan a wedding without a quick way to save and share the magazines and images she loved. She thought if she was having trouble, surely other brides were, too. So she thought, “I bet I could start a blog.” And back then, starting a blog was super easy! There were a million different blog formats to choose from, so she picked one and set out to help other brides just like her. In the back of her mind, Maggie thought her new venture would be a great profession someday, but she wasn’t sure how the details would work out. In the meantime, she enjoyed planning her own wedding! And, of course, sharing the process on her blog. Where did she find inspiration? Where did she NOT find inspiration? Where did she struggle? She compiled these thoughts on her blog, and Rustic Wedding Chic began. Curating A Site How did Maggie go about gathering and sharing content that was the best of the best for rustic weddings? She thought if she could share ideas from other brides and photographers, then her readers could translate those ideas into their own weddings. Initially, she had the idea to reach out to photographers and ask if she could share photos of their beautiful, rustic weddings. She offered to do a write up on their work, with a link to their services. In the early days of blogging, this is how blogging was done. When Maggie started 8 years ago, there were maybe 3 wedding blogs in the niche: The Knot, Style Me Pretty, and Martha Stewart Weddings. She had access to ‘real weddings’ (not even a term yet) that she could showcase. As this virtual collection grew, brides all over the country were able to find the right florist or cake decorator for them. RWC started by asking to feature the work of vendors, and now they get hundreds of requests a month from vendors. Maggie quickly learned that ‘rustic’ was an umbrella term - and there were tons of wedding types you could call ‘rustic’, from lakeside to barn settings. Shortly after launching Rustic Wedding Chic, Maggie launched RusticWeddingGuide.com as a way to help couples connect with vendors and venues. Creating this resource came out of requests Maggie would constantly get about finding the best venues. It's fantastic to see savvy business owners become the solution to their own problems. Solving Problems Through A Directory Site Did Maggie need a bunch of expensive software to make a directory site? Did she have to become a tech whiz? She admits that putting together a directory site was a challenge. Maggie was very comfortable producing content in blog format. She had post-writing down to a science. Putting together this directory site forced her out of her comfort zone. She made the decision to start small, and build from there. RWC was getting requests from both sides: vendors wanting to get listed and brides wondering how to connect with vendors. Since the Rustic Wedding Chic team is small, they had to really focus their efforts. Maggie pulled everyone together and they made their plan. Starting small and building up worked in Maggie’s favor, as currently there are over 5,000 vendors listed on this directory site. Monetizing Your Platform Since Maggie has monetized successfully, I wondered if she could walk us through that process and break down her income streams. Early on she got help from her brother, who is the president of an internet company. He helped her brainstorm and make a plan to monetize WRC. She knew she had a strong readership and impressive social media numbers, but the path to starting a business wasn’t so cut and dry. Along with her brother, she tested ideas - and it turned out that advertising was her strong suit. Maggie intentionally wanted to make sure that she could work with smaller vendors like Etsy sellers, so they worked out a model that was more like direct sales. She also partnered with Google and used Adsense for selling ad spots. The wedding world is perfect for featuring sponsored posts or Instagram campaigns. The game has changed a bit now than when she started, but still, the model of featuring products and services on your platform works. Maggie is also an author! When she signed her first book deal, she was unsure of how the process worked. She signed with a good publishing company and invested in a book attorney to make sure she was making wise choices. We love how diverse Maggie’s income streams are. She’s got many pieces of the pie all fitting together. Advice For A Blogger Building A Platform What would Maggie say to a blogger who’s new and trying to build a platform and create a package that would be attractive to advertisers? Maggie’s advice is on-point: “People have to be really cautious of the niche they’re in. I felt comfortable being in the rustic country wedding space because it came from a very organic place, and people could tell I was passionate about it. I was going to be true to that topic.” Once you find a niche, spend a lot of time and effort learning how you can dominate that niche. You want to have the best site, be the most authoritative, and give readers a good experience. “Be brand conscious, even if you’re not a huge, well-known brand yet,  you still have to think of yourself as a brand.” Maggie says that when bloggers try to work with bigger sponsors, they have to be confident in who they are as a brand. It’s difficult for any company to part with money, even if they have deep pockets! So you have to prove that your blog is worth investing in. The company wants to make sure that if they send you X dollars, it’s going to be worth their effort. If you can put a package together to explain who you are, why they should work for you, and who your readers are in a compelling way, that makes the decision ten times easier. A simple start is, "I am the expert in this world because...(your reason)" Brands have a million options when it comes to spending their advertising dollars. They want a blogger who will be the perfect fit. Working With A Team Maggie’s site is INCREDIBLY busy! She has lots of logistics going on behind the scenes to manage regular advertising spots, sponsored posts, working with publishers, and so on. She accomplishes all of this with a small team! We had to ask how she makes it work. When RWC first started out, she was a one-woman-show. All she had to do was create the content and publish it to social media. When the social scene exploded, especially with the development of Pinterest (Rustic Wedding Chic was one of the first Pinterest users) and her site gained more readers - she was responsible for more work. Maggie knew they had to grow as a company or she’d be limiting her potential and opportunity. When Rustic Wedding Chic decided to develop the Rustic Wedding Guide, she needed a team member solely dedicated to that project. Since their list of vendors is curated, Maggie had to make sure the vendors were high-quality  - and this took a great amount of attention. She also needed a team member to handle paid subscribers advertising in Rustic Wedding Guide’s showcase listings. Maggie was able to hire someone to dedicate their time exclusively to the wedding guide and taking care of advertisers. A couple years ago, Maggie’s husband left a job he had for a long time and transitioned to managing advertising on the blog. RWC would get tons of requests asking for a media kit or ad prices for social posts, or to personall review a dress - her husband was able to completely take this responsibility off of Maggie’s plate. (We love wife-husband teams!) Maggie handles all of the content creation and does media appearances for Rustic Wedding Chic. Rustic Wedding Chic hires freelancers from all over, from California to New York. Maggie frequently hires photographers to do styled shoots, as well as freelance writers to assist here and there. Her team is a healthy mix of full-time and contract employees. Working with Freelance Photographers Sometimes Maggie will work with a company who wants her to review or showcase their product. In some instances, the company is very direct that they want Maggie’s special touch on these features. Maggie likes to be hands on with that content. Other times RWC will field a request for something like a sponsored post, and the sponsor wants Maggie’s team to only be responsible for creating images and sharing the product. She talks with the company to see what their vision is, and they find a solution that works for her and her team as well as the company. Maggie really wants Rustic Wedding Chic readers to know that they can expect only product and photos that will deliver high value to their lives. No matter your niche, this standard is great for any blogger. Growing A Pinterest Following Maggie has an impressive 161,000 followers on Pinterest, and has leveraged the platform well to grow her business. We had to hear more! At the time when Maggie joined Pinterest, it was still by invitation only during their small roll out! The friend who recommended Pinterest to Maggie wasn’t even thinking of her wedding business, just that the social media platform might be something Maggie would personally enjoy. But it wasn’t long before Maggie started looking at Pinterest that she thought it would be the perfect place to share their beautiful featured weddings, so she sign-up as a person, but with the first name "Rustic" and last name "Wedding." They grew very quickly and early because they saw the value of people being able to look at, and curate for themselves, hundreds of images at once. When RWC started on Pinterest, there weren’t a lot of Pinterest users or competition. She certainly credits that early adoption to their success. As we know, Pinterest isn’t perfect. Maggie says that now she will go onto Pinterest and it kills her to see other pinners stealing her images! Swiping an image that they have exclusive rights to, and linking to their site, which means her fabulous photographers don't get the credit they deserve. As great as Pinterest can be for business growth, there are certainly drawbacks. Nowadays if you were to search ‘rustic weddings’ on Pinterest, you would probably get thousands of images from so many people. But just a few years ago, you would have only seen Rustic Wedding Chic content. We think this is totally a lesson in being an early adopter of new technology; don’t be afraid to try something new for your business! Thoughts on Content Schedulers Maggie says she has seriously signed up or paid for practically EVERY content scheduler out there. Some she found helpful, and some were just downright frustrating. She did use Tailwind for a while, but wasn’t a fan that her items would be scheduled SO far out. She’s also worked with a company that uses a bulk uploader for Pinterest. But despite trying out these many different scheduling options, Maggie just didn’t see that her pins were performing as well as they did when she pinned organically. Maggie has gone back and forth as to whether or not a 3rd party service is useful. These days she still does take the time to daily pin organically and see what performs well. She will go back to her blog archives and see what post she could recirculate since there are always new brides needing to see past weddings. Bottom line: Maggie has paid for ALL of the scheduling tools, but still feels that the best return on her investment is organic pinning. That said, Maggie does use Pinterest Analytics. She thinks it’s very valuable to keep track of how many people you're reaching and which pins are most popular. Maggie did work with a social media expert to help her make sense of Pinterest Analytics. Her consultant asked Maggie if she’d ever notice that her pin view rate was about 4 million a month!! And then the consultant explained that a  pin view rate means a number of times your pins are interacted with in a month - in Maggie’s case, 4 milion! It was one of the highest the consultant had seen. You can imagine that brides using Pinterest to plan their weddings are highly dedicated, if not a little obsessed! And the numbers show it. Maggie finds it helpful to use analytics to know how to hone her Pinterest strategy. While content schedulers weren’t right for Maggie’s business, the value of gauging performance and observing trends certainly has been. What Makes A Popular Pin So what ARE those insanely popular pins that keep driving traffic back to Maggie’s site? Maggie continues to be FLOORED that some of her content has been pinned over 145,000 times. Surprisingly, many of her top pins are fairly simple images. She’ll even see images of simple wedding features like mason jar centerpieces doing incredibly well. (Though the success does come with difficulty. You can imagine how annoying and frustrating it is when Maggie sees her amazing pins pointing to OTHER people’s content. Let this interview be a friendly PSA: don’t steal pins!) Highly popular pins are ones in which people feel like they’re going to get a piece of information or insight that can only be found at Rustic Wedding Chic. One of her pins is a lovely image with the title: ‘This Wedding Was Planned Under $10,000, See How They Did It’. A user can pin any pretty image, but it is highly valuable to be able to go to a site with solid information. Maggie has a pin called, ‘How To Have The Best Unique Guest Book’ that did very well, and another ‘Rustic Wedding Sign On Pallets’ which has had over 400,000 repins. This kind of success makes total sense! Maggie’s not just throwing around pretty images, she’s giving practical advice that helps others. One final note: while DIY projects aren’t a huge part of the Rustic Wedding Chic brand, those select posts do pin well. Again, Maggie wisely has observed that any pin through which the reader knows they’ll get exclusive information of how to recreate a look or complete a project will be a success. A Frequent Pinner Maggie’s favorite strategy is to pin content directly from her blog. On any given day, her site produces a few brand new featured pieces of content. Her daily Real Weddings posts will have between 12-24 images, each of which Maggie turns into a pin. She also spends time going back to more popular posts or seasonal interests and searches for pinable content. (For example, at the time of recording we’re heading into summer. So Maggie is looking for posts like ‘25 Beautiful Summer Wedding Ideas’ or ‘Best Outdoor Seating Ideas’.) She estimates that she’s pinning between 50-100 images a day. She is constantly checking her Pinterest analytics to see what pins are popular and resonating, looking at stats like the pins with the most impressions, saves or click throughs in the last 30 days. A lot of bloggers or business owners are curating content from not only their site, but also other related sites. Because Maggie has Sso much brand content, she could easily fill out a Pinterest profile with only her own images. But does she? Maggie says probably 90% of her boards feature pins from her own site. And considering they have 9 years’ worth of content, it makes sense! But Rustic Wedding Chic does believe in sharing the love. They do try to pin and share content from other brands that they know Rustic Wedding Chic fans will love. Though on the whole, of their 60,000 pins most, maybe 90%, are from Rustic Wedding Chic. Testing Out Promoted Pins Just like us, Maggie was excited to see Promoted Pins roll out. She thought it would be a great way to reach new followers on Pinterest, but admits that for her brand she’s always been a bit disappointed with the outcome--they got repins but not new followers. The best way for Rustic Wedding Chic to get new followers is still to create gorgeous content and work with great companies their readers will love. In Maggie’s opinion, she thinks promoted pins are probably a great tool for businesses just starting out and trying to gain more followers because you need to be seen. Personally, she likes seeing promoted pins because she gets amazing suggestions of ideas that she truly enjoys. Maggie’s Embarrassing Mompreneur Moment Maggie calls herself ‘The Naptime Entrepreneur’ and has written a few articles on that topic. She has 2 boys - and one on the way - so her house is a bit crazy! She used to try to work all hours of the day, but realized it wasn’t working when she made one embarrassing mompreneur mistake! She was at the park with her kids and drafted a hastily written email to a very prominent magazine, full of misspellings. She thought to herself that she would save the draft and polish the email once she was home. But when Maggie went to fix and send the email, she realized it had already sent! Enough was enough. She realized she really couldn’t do it all! So now, she works when her kids are napping or sleeping. As anyone with kids and a business or creative outlet knows, it’s never easy. Maggie says it well: “When my kids are awake I’m CEO of Mommyhood, and when they’re asleep or at school I’m CEO of Rustic Wedding Chic.” Connect with Maggie Site: RusticWeddingChic.comPinterest: @RusticWedChic Now It's Your Turn To Head Out There And Be Brilliant!