You made it to the last episode in our 10-day Ringing in 2024 series! You’ve done some reflection, you’ve dreamed up your ideal 2024, and you’ve done some planning for the year and month ahead. Now it's time to talk about the key ingredient for making it all happen: maintaining momentum.

This week on the podcast is a special 10-part podcast series that I’m airing on the private podcast that’s part of Making Good Happen, but! As my holiday slash New Year’s gift to you, I’m sharing it with you, too!

This series will be released every weekday, Monday through Friday, from December 25th through January 5th. Each short and sweet episode will include some guidance as well as a short exercise to go through. By the end of this series you’ll have reviewed 2023, dream up your ideal 2024, and create a plan to get there.

And, BONUS! I’ve also created a free workbook you can use to work through these exercises. Head to makinggoodpodcast.com/2024 to get your copy and get going!

It's the second to last episode in our 10-part Ringing in 2024 series! Yesterday we took a top-level approach to planning the upcoming year, so today we're getting a little more granular. 

This week on the podcast is a special 10-part podcast series that I’m airing on the private podcast that’s part of Making Good Happen, but! As my holiday slash New Year’s gift to you, I’m sharing it with you, too!

This series will be released every weekday, Monday through Friday, from December 25th through January 5th. Each short and sweet episode will include some guidance as well as a short exercise to go through. By the end of this series you’ll have reviewed 2023, dream up your ideal 2024, and create a plan to get there.

And, BONUS! I’ve also created a free workbook you can use to work through these exercises. Head to makinggoodpodcast.com/2024 to get your copy and get going!

Welcome to Part 8 of our Ringing in 2024 series! Now that we have committed to consistency, it's time to map out our year from a birds-eye perspective.  

This week on the podcast is a special 10-part podcast series that I’m airing on the private podcast that’s part of Making Good Happen, but! As my holiday slash New Year’s gift to you, I’m sharing it with you, too!

This series will be released every weekday, Monday through Friday, from December 25th through January 5th. Each short and sweet episode will include some guidance as well as a short exercise to go through. By the end of this series you’ll have reviewed 2023, dream up your ideal 2024, and create a plan to get there.

And, BONUS! I’ve also created a free workbook you can use to work through these exercises. Head to makinggoodpodcast.com/2024 to get your copy and get going!

Today on our Bonus, Ringing in 2024 series, we're committing to consistency! Once you've set your goals, a key ingredient to actually achieving them is consistent action. 

This week on the podcast is a special 10-part podcast series that I’m airing on the private podcast that’s part of Making Good Happen, but! As my holiday slash New Year’s gift to you, I’m sharing it with you, too!

This series will be released every weekday, Monday through Friday, from December 25th through January 5th. Each short and sweet episode will include some guidance as well as a short exercise to go through. By the end of this series you’ll have reviewed 2023, dream up your ideal 2024, and create a plan to get there.

And, BONUS! I’ve also created a free workbook you can use to work through these exercises. Head to makinggoodpodcast.com/2024 to get your copy and get going!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! We are now just over halfway through our 10-day, Ringing in 2024 series, and you know what? It's time to start making some concrete plans. This is what episodes 6-10 in this series are all about: taking our goals and turning them into real, achievable plans.

This week on the podcast is a special 10-part podcast series that I’m airing on the private podcast that’s part of Making Good Happen, but! As my holiday slash New Year’s gift to you, I’m sharing it with you, too!

This series will be released every weekday, Monday through Friday, from December 25th through January 5th. Each short and sweet episode will include some guidance as well as a short exercise to go through. By the end of this series you’ll have reviewed 2023, dream up your ideal 2024, and create a plan to get there.

And, BONUS! I’ve also created a free workbook you can use to work through these exercises. Head to makinggoodpodcast.com/2024 to get your copy and get going!

One week down, one to go! You made it to part 5 of the Ringing in 2024 series! Today, I’m going to help you pull together all your takeaways from this week's exercises so you can formulate a goal (or goals!?) for next year.

This week on the podcast is a special 10-part podcast series that I’m airing on the private podcast that’s part of Making Good Happen, but! As my holiday slash New Year’s gift to you, I’m sharing it with you, too!

This series will be released every weekday, Monday through Friday, from December 25th through January 5th. Each short and sweet episode will include some guidance as well as a short exercise to go through. By the end of this series you’ll have reviewed 2023, dream up your ideal 2024, and create a plan to get there.

And, BONUS! I’ve also created a free workbook you can use to work through these exercises. Head to makinggoodpodcast.com/2024 to get your copy and get going!

Welcome to part 4 of the Ringing in 2024 series! Today I am so excited to introduce you to the Start/Stop/Keep exercise.

This week on the podcast is a special 10-part podcast series that I’m airing on the private podcast that’s part of Making Good Happen, but! As my holiday slash New Year’s gift to you, I’m sharing it with you, too!

This series will be released every weekday, Monday through Friday, from December 25th through January 5th. Each short and sweet episode will include some guidance as well as a short exercise to go through. By the end of this series you’ll have reviewed 2023, dream up your ideal 2024, and create a plan to get there.

And, BONUS! I’ve also created a free workbook you can use to work through these exercises. Head to makinggoodpodcast.com/2024 to get your copy and get going!

In the third installment of the Ringing in 2024 series, let's have some fun. It's time for the destination postcard exercise!

This week on the podcast is a special 10-part podcast series that I’m airing on the private podcast that’s part of Making Good Happen, but! As my holiday slash New Year’s gift to you, I’m sharing it with you, too!

This series will be released every weekday, Monday through Friday, from December 25th through January 5th. Each short and sweet episode will include some guidance as well as a short exercise to go through. By the end of this series you’ll have reviewed 2023, dream up your ideal 2024, and create a plan to get there.

And, BONUS! I’ve also created a free workbook you can use to work through these exercises. Head to makinggoodpodcast.com/2024 to get your copy and get going!

Today in our 10-part Ringing in 2024 series, we take a look at lessons learned from the past year. This part of the reflection process can feel a little hard but in this episode, I want to offer some perspective that might help turn those tough realizations into learning moments.

This week on the podcast is a special 10-part podcast series that I’m airing on the private podcast that’s part of Making Good Happen, but! As my holiday slash New Year’s gift to you, I’m sharing it with you, too!

This series will be released every weekday, Monday through Friday, from December 25th through January 5th. Each short and sweet episode will include some guidance as well as a short exercise to go through. By the end of this series you’ll have reviewed 2023, dream up your ideal 2024, and create a plan to get there.

And, BONUS! I’ve also created a free workbook you can use to work through these exercises. Head to makinggoodpodcast.com/2024 to get your copy and get going!

This week on the podcast is a special 10-part podcast series that I’m airing on the private podcast that’s part of Making Good Happen, but! As my holiday/New Year’s gift to you, I’m sharing it with you, too!

This series will be released every weekday, Monday through Friday, from December 25th through January 5th. Each short and sweet episode will include some guidance as well as a short exercise to go through. By the end of this series you’ll have reviewed 2023, dream up your ideal 2024, and create a plan to get there.

The very first thing on our agenda? We need to celebrate 2023! You have worked SO HARD this year, so before diving into 2024 planning, let’s take a moment to appreciate how far you've come in the past year.

And, BONUS! I’ve also created a free workbook you can use to work through these exercises. Head to makinggoodpodcast.com/2024 to get your copy and get going!

Nadine Nethery is an audience-driven copywriter and brand messaging strategist for female founders who want to intentionally attract, delight and retain their dream customers. I’ve danced around the topic of audience research on the podcast before, but up until now haven’t dived in. In my former life in the corporate sphere, my background is in market research, so I’ve been around the block when it comes to getting to know your customers.

Nadine, however, completely amazed me in this episode. Her smart, original strategies for gaining insights into an audience are so inspiring, and the ways she uses AI as a tool to that end are also super thoughtful.

Seth Godin is a thinker in the marketing space that I have admired for a very long time, and I am so excited to share some of his work with you all.

While he may not use the words “ethical marketer” specifically to describe his work, but he’s definitely a non-bro marketer. He was one of the first to popularize the idea of “permission marketing,” not pushing a product or idea onto anyone, but selling to your ideal customer by adding value and being invited in by our customers.

Regardless of where you’re at in your marketing journey, I definitely recommend giving this one a read.

So this one is kind of a big deal for me.

I was a little bit nervous to record this episode, and honestly even more nervous to release it into the world. But I’m also excited!

My guest today is a rare repeat guest, Nell Wulfhart, the decision coach.

In our most recent conversation, recorded this past October, we turned the tables in a totally new format for the show. Nell took the interviewer seat to help me make a huge decision about my businesses. We treated it like a live coaching session, with Nell taking me though the process just like she would with any of her clients. As you’ll hear in the episode, I was pretty amazed by the end. Let’s just say Nell is very good at what she does.

When I tell you to think about marketing your business, what comes to mind?

Social media? Reels? Paying for ads? Complicated strategies? Stuff you don’t know how to do but everyone’s telling you that you “should” be doing? Spending money you don’t currently have available to spend? Overall… just a heavy sense of overwhelm?

If that’s you I have 3 things to tell you, all of which I hope you will find to be good news.

It’s not often that I get to sit down with a fellow retail store owner on this podcast, and it was so much fun to talk shop with Jessie Williams. Jessie is BUSY. Not only does she own three retail locations in North Carolina, two Edge of Urge locations, and one Unlikely Professionals, but she also owns and manages Cute House, a vacation rental home also in North Carolina. All of her businesses and side projects, (too many to list in this intro!), are focused on supporting up-and-coming makers and small businesses, as well as giving back to her community.

This episode comes out at the end of November, and I know from members in my community that the energy is high and also! A little chaotic. The end of the year is a super important time for many small businesses – certainly MOST small businesses in my community. So we want our marketing to really deliver for us.

But creatively… you might be feeling just tapped out.

SO

If you need some support planning your end-of-year marketing, today’s episode is for you. My goal is to give you some good ideas on WHAT TO ACTUALLY SAY in your marketing… in order to get those big results.

I love Fascinate by Sally Hogshead because of the permission it gives to explore and figure out your unique approach marketing, rather than pigeonholing yourself into pre-existing models. At the same time it offers an absolute bounty of guide rails and suggestions for a plethora of brand personalities. Fascinate does an amazing job of helping you figure out first and foremost what makes your brand stand out, then apply some of Hogshead’s suggested pillars or strategies to your marketing.

Figuring out the right way into a networking situation can feel daunting. My guest today found a lot of success in growing her business through networking, and I love her strategic and thoughtful approach to figuring out which rooms she wants to be in, and how she can get the most impact from her limited time.

I record these episodes WAYYYY before they come out, and since we recorded, Dani has actually shifted directions and no longer runs that business. However, that doesn’t change how valuable this conversation is so I wanted to be sure to bring it to you anyway! Dani Sticka is a former professional home organizer who believes in letting go of perfection and embracing a simpler life through home organization. During her own personal health journey and finding peace with less, Dani created Imperfectly Tidy to help others let go too.

HOOOOOOLY MOLY do I have a treat for you. Like, the biggest treat ever.

This week, I decided to share with you ALL FIVE of the private podcast episodes coming out this week in Making Good Happen!

Making Good Happen is my membership program, and every day Monday - Friday, there’s a private podcast that comes out for members to listen to.

This week, I thought I’d share with you all 5 of the episodes that are coming out this week in the membership, just for fun.

Today, we’re gonna talk about something truly scary for small business owners: MARKETING.

It’s not a coincidence that this episode comes out on Halloween, October 31 – the day for all things spooky and scary. But the fear of marketing isn’t only present on Halloween –for a lot of us, it’s here all year long. So no matter when you’re listening, this episode is probably for you.