Guest: Maggie van GalenWebsite: maggievangalen.comWhat we cover in this episode:Maggie’s early love of storytelling and her path from journalism to authorshipHow motherhood inspired her first children’s book seriesThe pivot from in-person school visits to writing copy for businessesHer ideal clients—and how she helps them speak in ways their audiences understandThe power of networking and relationship-driven marketingHer process for capturing a client’s voiceGoals for 2024 and how she defines success on her own termsThe importance of continual learning and surrounding yourself with honest, uplifting peopleGiving 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 Galenwww.maggievangalen.comIG www.instagram.com/maggievangalen/FB www.facebook.com/maggievangalenauthor/LI www.linkedin.com/in/maggievangalen/Virginia PurnellFunnel & Visibility SpecialistDistinct Digital Marketing(833) 762-5336virginia@distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.co

Episode Notes:Guest: Ahuva Gruen, Fractional CFO and Founder of AG Financial CPATopics covered:Ahuva’s entrepreneurial roots and journey to becoming a fractional CFOCommon financial pitfalls businesses faceThe importance of understanding cash flow, profit margins, and financial processesHow Ahuva helps businesses eliminate waste, maximize profits, and plan for growthWhy accountability is a crucial driver of successHer holistic approach to financial consulting, focusing on people, processes, profit, and productsLearn more at:🌐 ahuvacfo.com🔗 Ahuva on LinkedInKey Questions(01:20) Can you tell us a little bit about how you got to where you are today?(04:26) Who would you say are your ideal clients to work with today?(05:24) And how do you get in front of them?(05:49) You had mentioned that they have - they don't really know where their money's going, where their expenditures are. Is there another kind of common aspect that's going on with businesses before you start working with them?(11:13) Do you work with businesses all over the world or are you just in one geographical location?(12:09) What are some of your big goals that you're looking to achieve in the next year or two?(12:34) By expanding would that be bringing, bringing on like team members or you just bringing like or just bringing on more clients for you to work?(16:52) Is there anything that you'd like to talk about regarding the significance of cutting out unnecessary expenses while still maintaining the quality standards?(23:12) When you work with clients you talk about like concentrating their efforts on the most profitable customers. How exactly would you do that?(27:13) What is the best advice that you have ever received?(29:31) Is there something that we haven't touched on that you wanted to talk about?(33:54) Where can we go to learn more about you and what you do?Ahuva Gruen https://www.agfinancialcpa.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahuvagruen/Virginia PurnellFunnel & Visibility SpecialistDistinct Digital Marketing(833) 762-5336virginia@distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.co

 Episode Notes:Guest: Ryan Wimpey, founder of Tip Top Canine Dog Training and Tip Top Canine FranchisingKey topics:Ryan’s journey from hobby trainer to managing three businessesThe story behind Tip Top Canine’s rapid growth and franchising successHow the TIPTOP method changes dog behavior effectivelyThe importance of adult learning principles in staff and client trainingBalancing brand growth and quality control in franchisingWhy empathy and pattern recognition are crucial in dog trainingRyan’s best business advice: "Ready, fire, aim" and systemizing processesLearn more about Ryan at https://tiptopk9.com or check out their franchising opportunities.Key Questions(02:27) So we got a little bit of how you got to where you are today. Is there any gaps you want to fill in at all for us?(03:51) When did you guys start offering courses?(04:33) Who is your ideal client?(06:35) Do you fill me in on how I'm supposed to do it the same way you did it?(08:47) Llet's say I'm your ideal avatar or customer. How do you get in front of me? How do I know about So normally, you're googling.(13:00) You had mentioned... So their ability to process stuff is about a three-year-old in people aspect. Is that what you said?(14:58) Your business is already huge and massive. What goals do you have in the next year or two?(15:37) Doubling your franchises, how would that affect your business?(17:13) Do you guys have a hard time finding dog trainers as part of your staff?(18:52) With those who are who you're hiring for dog training, do you put them through, let's say, a certain training yourself so that it falls under the way that you guys want it done?(20:04) So let's go back to your goal with expanding the franchises and the stores and all that stuff. What do you think is the number one road block for getting that to happen?(22:35) Do you guys buy any other stores or locations?(23:47) What is the best advice that you have ever received?(24:37) What's the best advice you've ever given?(27:46) What do you have to share about principles of adult learning?(31:46) Is there anything that we haven't touched on yet that you would like to talk about?(32:15) So is there a certain geographical area in the states that you're in, or are you sprinkled out all over?Ryan WimpeyWebsite / http://www.tiptopk9.com/ YouTube / https://www.youtube.com/@TipTopK9 Facebook  / facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063581240998 Instagram  / tiptopk9 Tik Tok  / https://www.tiktok.com/@tiptopk9?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc____🔗 Personal LinkedIn:   / ryan-wimpey-849287316Virginia PurnellFunnel & Visibility SpecialistDistinct Digital Marketing(833) 762-5336virginia@distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarkting.co

Welcome to the 200th episode of Entrepreneur Conundrum!Today, Virginia Purnell dives into the four key digital marketing strategies that can help business owners save time and money while growing their online presence. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by marketing, this episode is for you!💡 Here’s what you’ll learn:✔️ How to turn customer reviews into engaging social media content✔️ How to launch a podcast without it consuming your time✔️ Why email marketing is still one of the best tools for engagement & sales✔️ How to optimize your website for speed, professionalism, and SEOThese simple but highly effective strategies will help you increase visibility, connect with your audience, and drive leads—all without blowing your budget!🚀 Want help implementing these strategies? Virginia can help!💬 DM her on Instagram or Facebook (@entrepreneurconundrumpodcast @distinctdm) or LinkedIn (@distinctdm)📩 Visit distinctdigitalmarketing.com to learn more.

In this episode, I talk with Adam Rosen, a world-traveling entrepreneur who has cracked the code on cold email outreach. Adam sold his first tech startup in 2019 and has since built a thriving business helping companies generate consistent sales meetings through expert-level email strategies.We cover:✔️ How Adam built a seven-figure business while traveling the world✔️ The biggest mistakes businesses make with cold email✔️ How to scale a remote team and maintain strong company culture✔️ Why systems and automation are key to business growth✔️ Tips for staying resilient through business ups and downsPlus, Adam shares insights from his newsletter The Nomad Cloud, which has grown to over 350,000 subscribers, offering resources for entrepreneurs who want to travel and grow professionally.📌 Connect with Adam:Website: eocworks.comNewsletter: thenomadcloud.comLinkedIn: Adam I RosenEmail: adam@eocworks.comKey Questions(00:59) Where are you right now?(01:40) How did you get to be where you are today.(02:55) Who is your target audience?(03:21) Obviously, they're really big companies, so they might not. But do they have any misconceptions or things that they're doing wrong before they start working with you guys?(04:47) So do you work with more B2B companies then?(04:52) Do you get in front of your ideal clients just through email outreach, or is there other things that you're doing on social media or anything?(05:38) What are some big goals that you have in the next year or two?(06:02) How has it been getting systems in place to support your growth?(06:58) What do you feel is your number one roadblock or are getting to your goal?(08:11) How has building a team culture been for you?(09:55) Can you share with us some of the things that you did to help move through those?(11:53) What was it like with building the seven-figure business while you were bootstrapping all over (14:33) What's the best advice that you have ever received?(15:53) What's the best advice that you've ever given?(16:20) Do you have any tips for us or things for us to think about or implement when it comes to cold email outreach?(17:52) Is there anything that we haven't talked about or touched on that you would like to?(18:50) Where can we go to learn more about you and what you do?Adam Roseneocworks.comlinkedin.com/in/adamiroseninstagram.com/adamirosenVirginia PurnellFunnel & Visibility SpecialistDistinct Digital Marketing(833) 762-5336virginia@distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarkting.cohttps://entrepreneurconundrum.com

📜 Episode Notes:💡 Guest: Suzanne Jabour, Certified Grief Educator & Speaker🔹 The misconceptions about grief🔹 How grief shows up in the workplace🔹 Supporting grieving employees and colleagues🔹 The hidden costs of grief in organizations🔹 Alternative grief support strategies🔹 Breaking the stigma around grief conversationsLinks & Resources:🌎 Website: suzannejabour.com📌 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/suzannejabour📷 Instagram: @suzannejabour📢 Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review! Key Questions(00:57) Can you share with us a little bit how you ended up where you are today?(03:26) Do you only help people who are dealing with a death or is there different types of grief?(05:26) Do you have Like a specific type of grief that you work with or type of people that you work with, just whoever is open to working with you with grief?(08:07) Where do you go to get in front of new people?(12:40) What do you think is your number one roadblock from you getting to that goal?(14:10) What are some primary resources for grief in the workplace?(15:44) What are some alternative support mechanisms and resources for grieving employees, other than just the EAP?(18:48) There's the personal losses, job changes, organizational shifts. How do all of those contribute to grief?(24:09) What is the best advice that you have ever received?(25:19) What's the best advice you have ever given?(28:07) Is there anything that we haven't touched on yet that you would like to talk about?(29:06) Where can we go to learn more about you and what you do?Suzanne Jabourhttps://linktr.ee/SuzanneJabourGriefEducationhttps://suzannejabour.comhttps://www.facebook.com/suzannejabourhttp://instagram.com/suzannejabourgriefeducationhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanne-jabourhttps://www.youtube.com/@SuzanneJabour?sub_confirmation=1Virginia PurnellFunnel & Visibility SpecialistDistinct Digital Marketing(833) 762-5336virginia@distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.co

Episode Notes:Amanda’s personal homeschooling journey and how it shaped her approachHow she helps parents move from chaos to confidence in homeschoolingTime management strategies for homeschool parentsThe importance of mindset and avoiding burnoutHow to balance homeschooling, entrepreneurship, and family lifeAmanda’s goals for the future, including writing books and expanding her impactPractical advice for women entrepreneurs managing homeschooling and mental healthLearn more about Amanda:🌎 Website: homeschoolfamilylegacy.comKey Questions?(01:28) How did you get to where you are today?(03:10) Right now, you do a lot of things, how do you manage your time with it all?(05:33) How do you make sure that the home stuff and the kids stuff doesn't take precedence over your work stuff?(07:12) How do you get in front of your ideal clients?(09:32) Do you find them on Facebook or Instagram or both?(11:11) What are a couple of big goals that you're looking to achieve in the next year or two?(12:15) And how would that affect your business?(13:11) What do you feel is your number one roadblock for helping you achieve all of this?(15:10) What's the best advice that you have ever received?(16:35) What about the best advice that you have given?(17:31) Do you have any tips for women entrepreneurs, even those in the homeschooling realm and doing the business stuff with their mental health?(20:34) Is there anything that you would like to talk about that we haven't touched on yet?(20:58) Where can we go learn more about you and what you do? Amanda Schenkenbergerwww.homeschoolfamilylegacy.comhttps://www.facebook.com/mandy.schenkenberger/Private Homeschool Mom Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/406588401355635/https://www.instagram.com/homeschoolcoachingmama/ Virginia PurnellFunnel & Visibility SpecialistDistinct Digital Marketing(833) 762-5336virginia@distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.co

Episode Notes:Todd’s journey from graphic design to entrepreneurship and personal growth coaching.How a life-changing incident in his 20s inspired him to turn his life around.The importance of self-reflection, personal growth, and finding balance.Todd’s custom life optimization system and how he tracks progress in all areas of his life.Advice on embracing failure, overcoming perfectionism, and living a life of meaning.Todd’s future goals, including writing a book and giving a TED Talk.How small, consistent changes lead to massive transformations over time.Key Questions(01:07) Can you share with us, how did you end up where you are today?(07:05) How do you get in front of people?(07:46) With all of the things that you're doing, how do you find time to do it all and the balance?(11:48) What are some big goals that you have in the next year or two?(12:20) How do you think they would affect your business?(13:09) What do you feel is your biggest roadblock from getting a TED Talk out there and getting your book written?(13:42) With the challenges that you've been through in life, how do you not let it keep you down?(15:16) Do you have any tips for us on what you did in order to move past perfectionism? (18:37) What's the best advice that you have ever received?(18:59) So on that note, do you have any thoughts that you can share with us about living a life of happiness and fulfillment?(21:57) What's the best advice that you have ever given?(23:17) Is there anything that we haven't touched on that you would like to talk about?(29:50) Where can we go to learn more about you and what you do?Todd Bertschhttps://www.toddbertsch.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddmbertsch/https://www.facebook.com/tmbertsch/https://www.instagram.com/tmbertsch/Virginia PurnellFunnel & Visibility SpecialistDistinct Digital Marketing(833) 762-5336virginia@distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.co

Virginia Purnell interviews Caitlin Bacher, a course-selling expert and founder of Scale with Success, to talk about how to sell your course successfully—without launching.In this episode, we cover:✅ Why the launch model keeps course creators stuck in feast-or-famine cycles.✅ The difference between launching and evergreen selling—and why evergreen wins.✅ Why most course creators struggle to scale (and how to fix it).✅ How to sell your course with automation—no sales calls or cold DMs required!✅ The best pricing strategies for evergreen courses.Caitlin also shares insights on how to create consistent revenue, build a sustainable business, and scale with ease.Key Questions (01:12) Can you tell us anything else about your entrepreneurial journey and how you got to where you are today?(05:50) When you do a new product or a new course, do you do a mini launch? So do a bunch of hype about it and then just immediately turn it evergreen, or what do you recommend?(08:11) How is your feeling? Were you a little scared or anything when you first stopped doing the launches and then just decided just to do evergreen instead for uncertainty?(10:01) Do you help just the people who already have a course to be able to scale it, or do you also help them create a course, come up with a course?(10:58) And is it just coaches and course creators? Who's your niche that you work with?(13:56) You mentioned some prices, but what have you guys found to be a good price range for the lower and upper levels of the?(15:09) How do you get in front of your ideal?(18:53) What are some big goals that you're looking to achieve in the next year?(21:40) What is the best advice you have ever received?(25:49) What's the best advice you've ever given?(29:07) Is there something that we haven't talked about, though, that you would like to?(31:31) Where can we go to learn more about you and what you do?Caitlin Bachercaitlinbacher.cominstagram.com/caitlinbacherVirginia PurnellFunnel & Visibility SpecialistDistinct Digital Marketing(833) 762-5336virginia@distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.co

Episode NotesVirginia Purnell interviews Ernesto Mandowsky, a systems expert and founder of Million Dollar Machine (MDM), on how small business owners can simplify operations and scale faster.In this episode, we cover:✅ The 6P framework that helps entrepreneurs scale successfully.✅ The biggest mistakes business owners make when trying to grow.✅ Why solopreneurs struggle to reach $1M—and how to fix it.✅ How to use systems & automation to reduce overwhelm.✅ The importance of building a "Million Dollar Machine" for long-term success.Ernesto also shares insights from his upcoming book, Momentum Multipliers: Five Recipes to Build Your Million Dollar Machine, where he breaks down the exact steps entrepreneurs need to take to systematize growth and scale with ease.Key Questions (00:50) How did you get to be where you are today?(02:46) Are there certain businesses that you work with, like a niche or something like that?(03:44) You work with startups or they have to be in the business for X amount of years first?(04:34) Is there a typical thing, like a mistake or a misconception, whatever, that people are typically doing when they first start working with you?(05:37) Do you help them, obviously systematize, but is that done through software? Is it done through bringing in people? Is it done through all of your stuff?(07:46) You mentioned a 90-day system. So do you show them... Was it the 12-week year, like something like that for them to focus on?(10:43) When you help bring in people to the team, are they virtually? Are they in person? Is it a mixture?(13:01) How do you get in front of these potential clients?(15:32) What are a couple of big goals that you are looking to achieve over the next year or two?(16:01) How would that affect your business?(16:55) What do you feel is the number one roadblock standing in your way of reaching that goal?(18:30) What is the best advice that you have ever received?(20:00) What's the best advice you've ever given?(21:50) We've covered a lot of things, but is there something that we haven't talked about yet that you would like to touch on?Virginia Purnell (26:28) Where can we go to learn more about you and what you do? Ernesto Mandowsky https://www.yourmdm.coCTA: score.yourmdm.cohttps://www.instagram.com/mdm.ernestoVirginia PurnellFunnel & Visibility SpecialistDistinct Digital Marketing(833) 762-5336virginia@distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.co