
Entrepreneur Conundrum
Join Virginia Purnell as she speaks to growing entrepreneur startups in the different ways that they are trying to become a subject matter expert. The unique thing about this show is that we are not talking to people who have been and done it and are all over the internet as superstars. We are talking to the average growing entrepreneur who is trying to get visible in their market.
Latest episodes

Sep 21, 2020 • 24min
EC 26 : with Rachel Iverson
Virginia's Questions00:34 What inspired you to start your own business?01:46 What do you like most about that? Well, first of all, tell us the what what did you choose?04:59 So by smarter, do you mean healthier or what do you mean by that one?09:11 Well, that's cool. And then that gains you more trust to in the long run. Right.09:20 So do you have an ideal client or customer that you try to work with?10:55 So do you have any business goals that you're hoping to achieve over the next one to two years?13:14 Do you feel like there's a roadblock that's stopping you from reaching that goal?13:49 Of course you will. So what are you doing that's working for you to attract more business?15:23 Is there anything that you're doing to like stand out online at all?17:47 What is the best advice you have ever received?18:26 What's the best advice you have ever given?19:03 Is there anything that you would like to share with us that I haven't asked? Mentions & ResourcesDistinctDigitalMarketing.com https://facebook.com/groups/cookinwithrachelhttps://www.instagram.com/cookinwithracheli/https://www.pamperedchef.ca/pws/racheliverson

Sep 14, 2020 • 24min
EC 25 : with Carol Kabaale
01:26 So how do you become an entrepreneur? 04:57 What are some of the most common mistakes you see your clients making? Definitely. 05:49 So who is your ideal client? 06:30 How do you get in front of them? How do they find out about you? 07:50 You just outreach to clients or do you get referrals, is there anything else that you kind of do to to drive your business? 11:09 So what are a couple of big goals for that, yeah, that you have over the next one to two years?12:48 So what would that goal do to change your business? 15:06 Have a roadblock that you think is stopping you from achieving your goal? 16:52 So what's the best advice you've ever received? 18:07 What's the best advice you have ever given? 19:58 How did you come up with topics for your lives?22:08 We should probably do that. It'll be really interesting because only one of us drinks the wine. Mentions & ResourcesDistinctDigitalMarketing.com https://facebook.com/carol.kabaalehttps://facebook.com/groups/futurebusinessempirehttps://www.instagram.com/carolkabaale/

Sep 7, 2020 • 26min
EC 24 : with Tammy Bragg
01:44 Tell us about like maybe what inspired you to become an entrepreneur and go out on your own? 06:07 Would you say that's the part that you like most about the work that you do worth or anything else? 07:41 What would an ideal plan client be for you, an ideal client? 11:31 How do your idea clients find you? 12:37 What are some big goals that you're hoping to achieve the next couple of years? 13:49 What would this goal do for your business? 14:31 What do you think is your number one roadblock from helping you meet your goal? 18:51 What is the best advice you've ever received? 20:56 Is there anything that I haven't asked that you would like to share with us?

Aug 31, 2020 • 38min
EC 23 : with Dr. Charles & Elaine Sanger
03:35 What do you guys like most about the work that you do?09:20 are there any common mistakes that you see your clients making? 11:24 So you have three-year course on helping them overcome those those hurdles? 16:35 How do you guys get in front of those people like. If they were, how do you grab their attention and bring them in? 18:07 What's the big goal that you guys are looking to achieve over the next one to two years? 21:45 Nice do you guys. Can you see a roadblock that's stopping you from achieving that? 24:53 Well, you guys are on such a great kick here with some advice. So what's the best advice you have ever received? 28:49 What's the best advice you have ever given. 34:17 Is there anything that you guys would like to share that I haven't asked you yet? 36:16 Well, thank you for sharing your words of wisdom and for such a fun interview. How can people find out more about you and what you guys do? RESOURCES:https://www.distinctdigitalmarketing.com/Dr. Charles and Elaine Sangerhttps://www.yourmessagecentral.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/authorentrepreneurcommunity

Aug 24, 2020 • 31min
EC 22 : with Douglas Levin
[00:01:03] So can you tell us what inspired you to have that entrepreneurial spirit? [00:03:40] I agree. What do you like most about the work that you do? [00:06:09] What are some common mistakes that you're seeing your clients make in terms of like because we didn't go with e-commerce specifically? 00:11:23] Who is your ideal Customer or client? You mentioned e-commerce. But is there like an ideal person? [00:13:48] So what do you do to get out in front of your ideal client? Like, if I'm just walking down the street, how do I how do I find you? [00:14:46] Well, do you get referrals in case clients through the stuff you do on YouTube? I got here posting and stuff. [00:16:43] What are couple big goals that you're looking to achieve over the next one to two years? [00:18:30] Those five businesses that you want to do. Is that different types of e-commerce businesses? [00:18:40] So what would those goals do to change your business? How would it change it? 00:20:30] What do you think? Make your number one roadblock is helping you achieve those goals. [00:23:07] What's the best advice you have ever received? [00:25:33] Best advice that you have ever given? RESOURCES:https://www.distinctdigitalmarketing.com/FREE Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/amazonsellersecretsMorning Marketing MachineYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MorningMarketingMachine/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/morningmarketingmachine/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/morningmarketingmachine/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MachineMorningEmail: douglas@morningmarketingmachine.comPersonal Links: https://www.facebook.com/douglas.levin.3

Aug 17, 2020 • 20min
EC 21: with Emma Bates
00:55 So could you tell us a little bit about yourself in terms of maybe your background experience, kind of where you are today? 01:25 What do you like most about the work that you do? 04:11 What are some of their most common mistakes that you see your customers making? 05:19 What's the best advice you've ever received? 07:39 What's the best advice you've ever given? 08:34 Thank you. So what is your ideal client like? Who are they? 09:29 How does your ideal client generally find you? 10:08 What are some big goals that you're looking to achieve over the next one to two years? 11:52 Do you think when you do figure out what they are, do you think you might go more for, let's say, a financial goal or more for, let's say, time, freedom time with your family? 13:13 normally I ask people what their number one roadblock is to achieving that goal. 13:46 So you had mentioned referrals and a little bit of marketing or what's working for you for getting visible to new business. So do you have any tips for people doing referrals or anything like that? 15:23 Do you have anything in place to give the people that refer you. New business and like let's say I got lady that referred to you on their Facebook group and three people came in. 15:33 Do you have anything like as a thank you or an incentive that you give people? 16:13 So with all the success that you've achieved. Like being able to bring your husband home. Being able to buy a new home. Being able to be in a position where you can home school your kids this year. 16:24 What do you think your biggest challenge is now? 17:21 Do you have any tips on common mistakes that you see your customers making and how we might be able to avoid them? 18:40 Is there anything that you'd like to share that I haven't asked you yet?

Aug 10, 2020 • 45min
EC 20: with Ben Moote
Time Stamp00:47 So can you tell us a little bit about yourself, what you're doing?06:57 So are those some of the common mistakes that you see your customers making? Are there a couple others as well? 08:49 What's the best advice you've ever received? 11:00 So who's your ideal client?3:46 How do they normally find you? Not just saying my question is my Website. But how do they normally hear about you and about, you know.7:30 So what are a few big goals that you're hoping to achieve in the next one to two years? 21:24 What would be a big roadblock that stopping you from achieving that? 27:09 So you had mentioned and kind of partnering up or collaborating with other big names and big people and then doing Facebook lives and stuff like that?27:23 Is there anything out there also doing to get visible or is that just kind of it? 31:36 What is the best advice that you have ever given?37:13 Where can people find more about you and what you do? DistinctDigitalMarketing.com https://www.benmoote.com/welcomehttps://hackthatfunnelradio.com/

Aug 3, 2020 • 22min
EC 19: with Carla White
So excited to have the one and only Carla White. Below are just a few words from and about Carla. "Top Woman In Tech"Hi, I’m Carla, host of Radical Shift Podcast and your life and business coach. Named me “Top Woman in Tech” by FastCo because I'm the first woman to launch a mobile app. My app, Gratitude, has been in the top of charts for over 11 years with zero funding, marketing and a team of one woman. It’s been featured in Oprah, BBC, NPR, Telegraph and more. Your host at Radical Shift Podcast and author of the #1 selling books “Idea to iPhone“ and "Million Dollar Story", where I pull back the curtains on bootstrapped success even if you don't have a clue where to begin.https://carlawhite.org/https://hiro.fm/

Jul 27, 2020 • 28min
EC 18: with Kaci Brown
https://go.amplifymyimpact.com/braceforimpact36691445https://www.facebook.com/groups/amplifymyimpact/?fbclid=IwAR0kqJjEcKHuP0SByWfad5fNLcCdFsg5XsGJ7H3UyT5c1z_tsqToqQfh87Y

Jul 20, 2020 • 30min
EC 17: With Jodi Chaffee
Welcome to Entrepreneur Conundrum with Virginia Purnell. We are growing entrepreneurs share how they get visible. Hi, everyone, and welcome to the Entrepreneur Conundrum podcast. My name is Virginia Purnell. And today we have back with us Jodi Chaffee and how she helps families live more intentionally by creating systems and strategies for a thriving culture. Jodi is a seasoned podcast or homeschool mom and family culture expert. She has hosted our modern heritage, the Home and Family Culture Podcast, for three years and recently released her one hundredth episode. During this time, she has interviewed dozens of experts from Paralympic athletes to entrepreneurs and authors for more than three years. Jodi studied business culture and looked for ways to apply it to families. This resulted in a powerful framework for hacking successful cultures and applying it to families who want to live in intentionally and question the status quo. She has been featured on several podcasts presented at homeschool conferences and is a published author in a digital magazine. Welcome, JodiWell, like you mentioned, I have my podcast and I have to mention again that I'm relaunching as the host of the family culture movement and in the hopes to present the podcast is with a more concise objective about, you know, this movement that I want to create around family culture and the importance of having a thriving culture based on trust and constructive coping strategies and systems and strategies for tackling problems before they even happen in your families. So that's my been my obsession for more than three years. And I, I can I have developed frameworks and systems to help families to cultivate their family culture. And so that's been my obsession besides my own family, our own family culture journey that I've been on, it really was sparked by the conflicts and questions I had in my own little family as we were going through our own journey and following the path, the quote unquote success path of going to school and getting a job and, you know, those kinds of things. And that path kind of like dead ended for us. And I did what I didn't realize was that subconsciously we felt like that was the only path that we could follow, because that's what we'd always been taught growing up. And when that fact when that path ended for us and we didn't know what to do, that was where I was like, wait, what do we do? And how do I raise my kids in a way that they will be successful even if they don't follow that path. And so that's where this whole exploration of family culture came from, was how I could educate my children, raised my kids to be more intentional about their future and how my husband, Michael and I can also change our status quo from, OK, we're supposed to just follow this path like robots to no, we want to live a path that's off the beaten path for us and do things that are going to help our family to thrive and be successful even if we don't necessarily follow the status quo. And so that's where it all spurred from. And since then, my husband has quit his job and we're working on building our business and we actually moved in with my parents. So we're kind of doing a blended family type of thing. And. And so it's been a really interesting journey, but one where I've learned a ton and have really been able to develop these systems that have allowed our family to get to a place where our kids, you know, we're not perfect, but they're they're really growing and progressing. And my husband and I are really changing our our trajectory of where we're going with our careers and our happiness. And we've been able to make the transition to live with my parents and actually be OK with it. And because I know that can be scary, but we're really supporting each other in our respective life situations. And so. Yes. So that's been our journey. And it's something that we're learning a lot and growing a lot. And it's been interesting and fun. You just mix up the culture a bit. Exactly. Exactly. You're trying to learn all spectrums of this whole thing. What is the best advice you've ever received? Mm hmm. OK. That's a good one. So one of the first thing that first pops into my mind was when I first learned about what family culture was. I was actually a missionary for my church and I was assigned to serve in Hawaii. And that's a place where there's a lot of diversity, a lot of different cultures. And I had this experience where I went into a home of a newly married couple and they were from different countries and they were really, really butting heads with each other. And some of it had to do with some advice that they'd received that they that interracial marriages were doomed to fail. And so they were really upset about that. And they were upset about their cultural differences, kind of like they were almost believing that advice. And it really upset me because I just thought. Oh, my gosh, what am I going to do when I get married, if I marry somebody from a different country or, you know. The entire shows transcription is here but hit the link to jump over to Jodi's Facebook group!https://www.facebook.com/groups/familyculturestrategies/