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Entrepreneur Conundrum

Why Every Business Needs a Wordsmith (and How Maggie van Galen Became One)

Mar 31, 2025
29:20

Guest: Maggie van Galen
Website: maggievangalen.com

What we cover in this episode:

  • Maggie’s early love of storytelling and her path from journalism to authorship
  • How motherhood inspired her first children’s book series
  • The pivot from in-person school visits to writing copy for businesses
  • Her ideal clients—and how she helps them speak in ways their audiences understand
  • The power of networking and relationship-driven marketing
  • Her process for capturing a client’s voice
  • Goals for 2024 and how she defines success on her own terms
  • The importance of continual learning and surrounding yourself with honest, uplifting people
  • Giving back through her children’s book sales to Canines for Disabled Kids
     

Special Mention:
15% of all book proceeds (purchased via Maggie’s website) go to Canines for Disabled Kids through May 1.

Key Questions

(00:53) How did you end up where you are today?

(05:42) Who is your ideal client?

(07:17) How do you get in front of them?

(09:44) When you start working with somebody, is there this commonality, a mistake or something that they have that they're not quite doing?

(12:10) How is the process that you use for coffee and content writing? And I just want to say, how do you get inside the client's head? But capture your client's voice with your words.

(13:48) What are some of your big goals that you want to achieve in the next year?

(18:23) What is the best advice you have ever received?

(20:38) What's the best advice you've ever given?

(23:57) How do you make sure that your cup stay filled and that you get the help that you need in your business?

(27:29) Is there anything that we haven't talked about yet that you'd like to touch on?

(28:30) Where can we learn more about you and what you do?

Maggie van Galen

www.maggievangalen.com

IG www.instagram.com/maggievangalen/

FB www.facebook.com/maggievangalenauthor/

LI www.linkedin.com/in/maggievangalen/

Virginia Purnell

Funnel & Visibility Specialist

Distinct Digital Marketing

(833) 762-5336

virginia@distinctdigitalmarketing.com

www.distinctdigitalmarketing.com

www.distinctdigitalmarketing.co

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