Small Business Sisterhood Podcast: Online Business, Blogging, Creative Entrepreneurs, Business Community

Rhonda G. Mincey is a multi-award-winning mentor, entrepreneur, and inspirational expert for female entrepreneurs. Her genius and gift is to create profit-producing and legacy-building content that distinguishes businesses from the competition. Through her speaking and writing, Rhonda challenges women to work passionately and purposefully with her Born to R.E.I.G.N.TM Methodology. Believing that everyone lives their legacy daily, Rhonda has founded two nonprofits that serve youth, building their self-esteem and leadership skills, and she also supports young ladies in Brazil and Rwanda to become educated, confident, and productive women. In this episode, Rhonda and I talk about the struggle to balance profit with purpose. There’s a lot of conversation about either profit or purpose, but very little about working to combine the two. Rhonda shares practical ways to bridging the gap between them in a way that not only increases profit while working within purpose, but also creates a legacy. She also highlights that purpose-driven businesses don’t have to be only for service-based businesses and shares how product-based businesses can also live the dream of profit and purpose.

Sandra Francisco is a Business Coach that helps entrepreneurs go from idea to profit while balancing their personal growth so that they can have fulfillment and profit. Sandra spent 15 years as a marketing and product development expert for two of Canada's fortune 10 companies, after making the difficult decision to leave the corporate path, she found herself exploring professional coaching and the dynamics of the human psyche. The combination of her eclectic background in personal and professional development translates to a unique and exceptional understanding of people, from multi-million-dollar business owners to entrepreneurs that are just getting started in business. In this episode, Sandra and I talked about how anxiety shaped her decision to start her own business and how that move impacted her sense of identity. Sandra’s passionate about the importance of self-care and we discuss the common blocks her clients experience in this area, the impact of imposter syndrome and how identity plays such a huge role in her work. If you’re struggling with anxiety, imposter syndrome or overwhelm, this episode is for you.

Suzanne Tulien is a Brand Clarity Expert, author, and speaker who specializes in helping her clients identify, define, and align their brand to what they want to be known for. She’s a firm believer in the power of aligned branding and how it can help solopreneurs launch and grow a successful business. She is the author of three books: Brand DNA, Personal Brand Clarity, and The 6 Myths of Small Business Branding. She speaks, trains, and consults internationally. In this episode Suzanne and I explore how branding can empower not just the business but also the business owner. We talk about the difference between marketing and branding, how brand values can translate to creating a business that stands out in a crowded market, and how personal branding can help us, as business owners, overcome mindset issues that may otherwise hold us back.

Debra A. Woog is a Crisis Navigation Partner™ with 30+ years of experience as a leadership researcher, executive and advisor. She provides highly competent women with expertise, structure and empathy so that they can process difficult situations, connect with necessary resources, communicate effectively, and lead with a clear mind and a solid strategy. Having experienced her own crises and crossroads, Debra understands the importance of an outside resource to provide perspective while navigating difficult circumstances, decisions, and conversations. In this episode, Debra shared the impact crisis has on a business, along with the components of her own Crisis Management Plan which, after this episode, I believe every business should have in place! Debra has over 20 years experience as a business owner, and she shares a lot of valuable lessons learned that I’m excited to share with you.

After making the decision to leave an abusive relationship and fight for the life she knew she deserved, Anuket’s founder, Ashlee Dozier, took several months to travel solo around the world. She committed to rediscovering her independence and was determined to come out stronger than ever. Little did she know, her investment into herself would lead her to discover the thing that would change her life and inspire the creation of, what you now know as, Anuket Luxury Apothecary. In this episode,...

Nikki Nash is a Hay House author, international speaker and marketing mentor for women entrepreneurs. As host of the Market Your Genius podcast and founder of the Genius Profit Lab, she equips entrepreneurs and authors with the tools and resources they need to share and profit from their experiences. Known for empowering people to quit making excuses and start going after their dreams, Nikki uses her extensive business and personal development background to help women create a business and a...

Angela Henderson is an international award-winning business coach for women, international keynote speaker, podcaster, and a mental health clinician of 15+ years. Angela helps women in business get all the pieces in place to have consistent 5 figure months and then onto 6/7 figure years without burning out in the process. She believes the key to a successful business is overcoming inner challenges and roadblocks to improve external results. It was her journey building Finlee & Me, a highly...

Cate Scolnik specialises in helping people build their business on Facebook starting from zero, without spending a cent on advertising. She has a unique ability to take the complex and make it simple, and she’s passionate about social media. Cate literally grew up in small business - her mother owned an antique shop and her father was a GP, Cate's earliest “professional” experience was answering the switchboard for her father’s medical practice. Cate started marketing way back in 1990...

Erica Carrico is an Award-Winning Life Purpose & Business Coach for women ready to transform their lives by creating six-figure soul-aligned businesses, so they can earn more money doing what they were put on earth to do. Through coaching services and speaking, Erica helps professionals who are frustrated and stuck figure out who they are at soul level, why they’re here and how they can leave their 9-5 and really fulfil what they’re here to do. Erica has a BS in Psychology, a Masters in...

For almost a decade, Annie P. has harnessed her Hulk-like disdain for hard-sales, tacky self-promotion, and overly competitive sleazeballs as inspiration to help people find better ways to grow their small businesses. As the Founder of The Non-Sleazy Sales Academy, she's guided hundreds of people toward making deeper connections, lasting impressions, and friendlier, more lucrative transactions and conversations. Her podcast, Too Legitimate to Quit, serves up instantly actionable small...

Jenna Dancy helps high achievers and purpose-driven moms channel their go-getter attitude into a freedom-based business while incorporating simple wellness solutions such as automation and Messenger marketing. Passionate about leaning into automation to support health and wellness, Jenna’s business has evolved over the years and, in this episode, she shares that journey from an unexpected discovery while in college to where she is today.. We talk about the advantages of including Messenger...

Melanie Mitchell is a Life & Career Coach who took her 18 years in the recruiting and staffing industry and shifted her focus into building a small business that helps people find meaningful and fulfilling work. She started her business from literally nothing after hitting rock bottom but in less than a year had transitioned into growing her business full time. Three years later, she’s now working with people from college graduates to C-Level executives across the United States, helping her...

Jennifer Urezzio is a master intuitive, author, teacher and speaker. She founded her own business, Blooming Grove, Soul Language‘s parent company, in 2004 in response to her intuitive senses and ability to help others feel better about themselves both holistically and naturally, working closely with them to generate a feeling of strength and well-being. Jennifer’s passion is around helping people connect, to themselves, each other, and their business. In this episode, we dive into how...

Nicole Johnson became a baby sleep expert through necessity after her first son was born and he refused to sleep more than an hour or two at a time, all night long. As a result, the Baby Sleep Site was created in 2008 to give her the platform to support sleep-deprived parents learn how to get their babies to sleep better. Over thirteen years of business, Nicole has seen a lot of growth and change and in this episode she shares her experiences with hiring contractors and moving into becoming...

Tracy Lamourie is a human rights activist and award winning publicist who started her business campaigning to free an innocent man from Death Row. She’s passionate about amplifying important messages and being a voice for those who most need one. In this episode, Tracy shares her knowledge and experience helping her clients gain media attention, providing step-by-step suggestions that you can follow, along with tips around changing your mindset to make media, PR and publicity and part of...

Shauna Armitage is a fractional marketing director for early-stage startups, guiding founders at all stages of growth in developing an impactful marketing program. Bridging the gap between consultant and agency, Shauna takes a hands-on approach in each and every business. Through her intensive client work, Shauna has helped her clients achieve results such as a 400% increase in website conversions and a 220% growth in sales leading to profitability and scalability. She is a Hubspot Certified...

In this episode, Samantha and Pepper talk about niching, an area many business owners struggle with. Samantha shares about her own fears around the process, but also about how niching has really helped her business change organically, shifting into an agency model working with independent contractors. A Certified Birth Doula and Postpartum Doula and Certified Childbirth Educator, Samantha came to the realization that as one woman, she could only support one woman at any given time. With...

Jyssica Yelas is an entrepreneur whose digital marketing agency helps businesses create social content. She began her journey into social media for business while at college and moved into running her own business when she was unexpectedly let go from her job. She’s passionate about helping business owners embrace social media for their business, the connections and collaborations that can be grown on the various social platforms, and is a lover of Instagram in particular. Jyssica and I...

Shannon Kenny is a sustainability consultant, helping eco-friendly businesses become more sustainable without sacrificing profit. Her journey into fighting climate change, supporting people in their journey to eco consciousness, began with a piece of plastic packaging she wasn’t certain could be recycled. From there, Shannon began educating herself, and then others, to help them learn how to reduce their carbon footprint and help them understand that any action, however small it feels, does...

Susan Elford believes relationship building is the key to a successful venture. In this episode she shares how that belief came about, the steps she took to build her businesses and the relationships she’s built. She offers practical steps for how people can start to build business relationships, give back to causes they’re passionate about, and build a business based on caring about other people.