#132: How to Build a Business While Recovering From Surgery
The key to this strategy is preparation. Carissa explains how she used her surgery recovery time from two hip operations to plan all of her business product, promotion, and niche…
#131: Should You Join The Chamber of Commerce
Most people don't even know what all is going on in the background of how a local Chamber of Commerce functions, and this episode gets right down to it in…
#130: Part 2 – How to Have a Trade Show Booth
You'll learn how to engage with customers, strategize your product and service conversation with people you don't know, and ways to network with other vendors at the trade show. If…
#129: Part 1 – How to Have a Trade Show Booth
Doing your first trade show can become expensive fast! Here's what you need to know to get your booth set up with the least amount of cost and attract the…
#128: Part 2 – What is Loan Packaging?
What you bring to that meeting says a lot about you and your ability to execute. Wayne Kangas shares why you should always start with your local bank when it comes…
#127: Part 1 – What is Loan Packaging?
Loan packaging consultant, Wayne Kangas, discusses the importance of how you should prepare yourself before reaching out to financial institutions, investors, and more to ensure you're ready for the funding…
How Do Private Equity Funds Look for Acquisitions?
An equity fund Director of Growth, Drew Lendermon discusses how businesses should prepare themselves if they ever want to be acquired by a private equity fund. If you've ever dreamed…
What is a Private Equity Fund?
Private Equity funds are a topic not many people know about, (Probably because most people don't use them to manage their money!) Drew Lendermon works for a private equity fund…
How to Prepare Your Business For Investors
Ever wondered how to prepare your business to get in front of investors? Malcolm Macaulay shares the different ways he started looking for capital to grow his business, and why…
#123: What is a Business Valuation? – Part 2
Business valuations are typically done by an independent 3rd party to ensure the accuracy of a business' value when being purchased or passed on to a new owner. Northspan Vice…
#121: How Much is a Business Worth?
Here's why you should be careful of benchmark rules, why it's important to dig into your industry's data, and why you should be adding value to your business years before…
#120: How Business Tycoons Made Their Wealth in Minnesota
This week, Aaron Brown talks about why "Robber Barons" were so dubbed, how much of our infrastructure was expedited by some pretty wealthy people, and where exactly they made a…
#120: Part 2 – Building Business Buzz Before The Internet
In the early 1900’s, this woman made a wild west town the place for women’s fashion. She managed to bring her business through buying out a competitor, surviving a fire…
#119: Part 1 – Building Business Buzz Before The Internet
Over 100 years ago, Dottie Power, became the very first fashion writer of rural America, bought her dresses by the trainload, and sold the trendiest designs, all while educating new…
#118: Part 5 – How to Manage Difficult People & Stay Sane
Bekkah is finishing up a 5 part series that any manager who's been struggling with difficult employees should listen to! Bekkah covers how to address problematic behaviors utilizing company policy,…
#117: Part 4 – How to Manage Difficult People & Stay Sane
Bekkah covers some mental health disorders to know about that could require an adjustment in your teaching techniques in order to help those you manage learn better. She discusses the…
#116: Part 3 – How to Manage Difficult People & Stay Sane
If you're a manager and are working with some pretty difficult individuals, this series is for you. This week, Bekkah is getting into the details of understanding if you personally…
#115: Part 2 – How to Manage Difficult People & Stay Sane
This week, Bekkah is picking up the second episode in the 5 part series that every manager who's had to deal with difficult people should listen to. She discusses how…
#114: Part 1 – How to Manage Difficult People & Stay Sane
If you've ever managed a difficult person or currently are, this podcast series is where you need to start. You will not regret it. This week, Bekkah starts a 5…
#113: Dealing With Business Burnout – Part 2
This week, Bekkah is picking up part 2 of the burnout series. She discusses how to use time blocking to segment out tasks that could be leading to business burnout,…
#112: Dealing With Business Burnout – Part 1
This week, Bekkah starts a two week series on burnout. These episodes will get into stress, what burnout looks like, having a plan to address burnout before it starts happening,…
#111: How to Make Yourself Useful – Part 2
This episode is full of wise words from John Cook. He is continuing part 2 of our conversation talking about his experiences of being a construction company business owner during…
#110: How to Make Yourself Useful – Part 1
John Cook is a hidden gem of art and fabrication. He's a business owner who used to work on Hollywood sets, a Disney Imagineer, and overall one of the most…
#109: Running a Massage School & Business
This is a great listen if you've ever wondered about becoming a massage therapist, and what kind of education it takes to get there. This week, business owner, Paula VanBaalen,…
#108: How to Network When You Don’t Know Anyone
This is a good listen for anyone looking to grow their connections and has no real experience getting started. Networking expert Heidi Torres talks with Bekkah about different strategies and…
#107: What Is Social Currency?
This week, author and entrepreneur, Ethan Turer, is back with Bekkah to discuss the topic of social currency. Social currency initially was considered part of one's online reputation, but in…
#106: What Is Crypto Currency?
This week, crypto currency investor, book author, and entrepreneur, Ethan Turer, discusses how crypto currency works, why people are interested in using it, and how you can get started with…
#105: 10 Big Fat Lies Business Owners Believe
This week, we dig into the lies that many business owners get fed as they are just starting out and as they are working hard in their businesses. This podcast…
#104: How to Make Sure Selling on Poshmark is Profitable
This week, an avid California Poshmark seller named Halli gives us an overview on what you need to know about making a profit on flipping clothing and pet items with…
#103: Creating a CPG Business on a Budget
This is part two of an interview with James Richardson discussing the Consumer Packaged Goods industry. If you've ever wondered how food items get into the grocery store or become…
#102: Understanding The Business of Consumer Packaged Goods
This week, entrepreneur and business consultant, Dr. James Richardson, talks with Bekkah about the social buying habits of consumers, what exactly all those items in Target are considered in the…
#101: What You Need to Know About Having a Business Partner
This week, Bekkah talks about the experiences she has had with business partners. For any entrepreneur that is looking into having a business partner, there are so many things to…
#100: Navigating Business Partnerships – When to Team Up
This week, Lisa Staff and Deevo, co-owners of the business Sprout Connectors, talk about partnerships! Bekkah asks them about the successful business brands they started as independent photographers and why…
#99: Partnerships and Career Changes
It's a new year!! This week, we discuss some upcoming changes for what our podcast will look like in 2022. We love having candid conversations with our listeners and over…
#98: Strategizing Career Moves to Become an Entrepreneur
This week, we navigate how to prepare yourself to become an entrepreneur. Sadly, most people don't, and that's why there's such a high business failure rate! We want to help…
#97: Selling a Product at Festivals and Shows
This week, we're wrapping up our "How We Built This" Series showing you how we invented a product, launched it, and investigated different channels of selling. In this episode, we…
#96: Selling a Handmade Product
This week, we're continuing our "How We Built This" series where we invented a product, launched it, and started selling all over the United States. We did this to document…
#95: Testing and Troubling Shooting a Product Launch
This week, we're talking all about how we prepared to launch our product and start making sales. This entire series is focused on how we built it so you can…
#94: Inventing a Product and Preparing for Launch
This week, we start our "How we built this," series that we've been researching and gathering data on for the last YEAR! That's right! This episode series we've been putting…
#93: Is Entrepreneurship Right For You?
This week, we talk about what you should consider when thinking about becoming an entrepreneur. There are many of our listeners who have been pondering this question for some time,…
#92: How to Be an Extreme Couponer
It's been a long time in coming, but, as promised, an episode on couponing. This week, we get to talk all about our love of incredibly good deals and free…
#91: How to Start a Catering Bakery Business
This week, the founder of Suga Brown Pastries, Jamie Harnage, sits down with us and discusses her low risk approach to getting up and running with her catering business. She…
#90: The Fear of Starting a Business
This week, we're taking part 2 of our series on fear, and WOW! If you missed episode 89, you should listen to it before jumping into this one with us.…
#89: How to Overcome The Fear of Risk
This week, we discuss how fear and anxiety can put you in a constantly reactive state that won't allow you to move forward. We discuss 5 different strategies to overcome…
#88: Goal Setting Strategies for Success
This week, we talk through ways you can help set goals for yourself that make sense for your overall life mission. Ruthie discusses prioritizing your to do's, identifying idea themes,…
#87: How to Self-Publish Through Kindle Direct Publishing
This week, we dig into a topic that Bekkah has been doing some heavy research on! Self-publishing your book on Amazon. She digs into the numbers, why it's beneficial to…
#86: The Secrets of Business Blogging
This week, we talk all about how to write a blog post for a business website. We dig into the different strategies that can help with search engine optimization, post…
#85: What You Need to Know About Business Debit & Credit Cards
This week, we talk with an experienced business expert, Julie George all about the pros and cons of credit and debit cards. She shares with us the different reasons why…
#84: How to Become a Renaissance Entrepreneur
This week, we speak with an entrepreneur that is truly a jack of all trades, pop culture podcast host, comic book author, video game voice actor, and so much, Brimstone.…
#83: How to Handle Setbacks in Business
This week, former NFL player and motivational speaker, Aaron Shawn Harper is with us to talk about how he has overcome setbacks in the business that he has owned for…