The Boss Mom Podcast

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As Boss Moms, we go through many challenges that lead to us forgetting to take care of ourselves. The truth is, we're the best version of ourselves and moms and business owners when we dedicate some time to focusing on ourselves. Why is the self-care component so important, and how does it tie in with mental health? How do we learn and transition into the self-care component? In this episode, the founder and owner of AK! Fitness brand Amanda Kloots joins me to talk about the life challenges a Boss Mom faces, how to take back control and why self-care is not selfish. I believe that I am the best version of myself as a mom when I feel fulfilled in myself too. -Amanda Kloots 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode - Leveraging your time How can we leverage our time properly so we can spend it with our family and to take care of ourselves? - Growing your business with self-care in mind Can we scale our businesses so it can run by itself? - Find your own outlet As Boss Moms, it can be difficult to find our own outlets, how do we find what fills our cups? Guest Bio An Ohio native, Amanda brings her infectious and inspirational attitude to everything that she does. A former Broadway dancer and Radio City Rockette, Amanda performed on a variety of stage, film and tv productions for over seventeen years. Amanda's love of dance and fitness led her to work and lead classes at one of New York's premiere fitness studios with regularly sold out classes teaching upwards of 12 hours a day. Amanda developed the jump rope method after years of trying different ways to stay in great shape. She fell in love with the jump rope after discovering it's the quickest, most effective way to get a full body workout, and spent years creating ways to use it for more than just jumping. In 2016, Amanda decided to focus full time on her AK! Fitness brand – her signature classes featured jump ropes and dance mixed with cross training to create a unique full body workout. In addition to the AK! Fitness brand, Amanda and her sister Anna launched the apparel company Hooray For® that celebrates positivity and donates proceeds to non-profit organizations worldwide. Amanda's first memoir, co-written with her sister, was released in June 2021 and is set to become a movie. The title, "Live Your Life", tells of her ninety five day struggle and love story with her husband Nick Cordero. Most recently, Amanda wrote, executive produced, and starred in the CBS holiday movie "Fit for Christmas" in December 2022. Kloots currently resides in Los Angeles with her son, Elvis. Find Amanda on Instagram @amandakloots Find Swanson W/I/O on Instagram @live.wio Visit https://amandakloots.com/

Marketing and sales is all about making choices. People either excel or fail because of the choices they make, so we have to be sure we make the right ones. When it comes to marketing, are women generally better at certain aspects of it? Is there a feminine advantage? Can people actually shift our perspective about sales and marketing? In this episode, international Sales and Marketing Consultant Dorothy Villeneuve, joins me to talk about looking at marketing in a new light, how she got started in sales and the many different ways of doing sales. The more and longer we have been in the sales, marketing and online space, the more I realize we are part of a revolution. -Dana Malstaff. 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode - Spending time with the right people Why should we spend time with people who get us fired up and motivated? - Timeless training What things in sales and marketing will never lose their value? - Clarity, communication and commitment How do we build clarity on the things that we want for our businesses? Guest Bio Dorothy is dedicated to helping women achieve unshakeable confidence and utilize simple, repeatable systems and strategies in their sales so that they can attract ideal clients to their high-ticket offers. She is an international Sales and Marketing Consultant for online women entrepreneurs and offers DONE WITH YOU consulting to help 6-figure online coaches and experts zero in on their zone of brilliance, simplify and increase their sales and finally get all their fancy funnels and copywriting done even if they dread tech and feel scattered. High Converting Sales Page Guide learn.dorothyvilleneuve.com/high-converting-sales-page Visit https://dorothyvilleneuve.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dorothyvilleneuvecoaching Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/dorothyvilleneuvecoaching Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wildlyconfidentsales YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dorothyvilleneuve TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dorothyvilleneuve LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorothy-villeneuve-acc/ For more information, visit http://www.parentingboyspeacefully.com

Everyone's always talking about authenticity, and how we need to be more authentic in our lives and businesses. But what does that really mean? Authenticity is key, but we actually need to know what it looks like to make sure it shines through. Can we be strategic about authenticity? Are there steps that we can take that may help our authenticity and integrity shine through? In this episode, I talk all about what being authentic actually means, how to use it to grow our businesses and why we need to be conscious of the things we care about. Authenticity is what people see. -Dana Malstaff 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode - Authenticity and transparency People tend to confuse authenticity with transparency. What is the difference between the two? - How do we show authenticity? What does authenticity actually look like in action? - Understanding how humans work How do we gain better insight into how humans work?

As moms, partners, daughters, sisters, friends and business owners, we only have so much time and energy. Boundaries are how we protect all those valuable resources, and make sure we're not spread too thin. It's not just about time and people. It's also about the words we use and the cultural messages we let into our own lives. In this special 600th and birthday episode, I share the boundaries I've set up in my life so that I can show up the way I want to. Let your mind and body feel young. We age faster when we give up hope and wonder. -Dana Malstaff 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode - Why I don't use the word busy anymore How do we reframe being busy to having an amazing and full life? - Bigger isn't always the goal in business Why have I built a boundary around how fast and big my business grows? - Saying yes to the right things It's hard to turn down a paying client, but why do we have to set boundaries around who we work with?

When it comes to social media, a lot of the things we're told to do to get followers, likes and shares don't work anymore. Motivational posts, teaching posts, value-add posts and promo posts - none of these are leading to growth, and it makes us hate social media. So what is working? What will get people to like and follow your content? In this episode, I talk about what isn't working on social media and what we should be posting instead. When you can be true about what the world looks like for you, that's where social media grows for you. -Dana Malstaff 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode - Why we end up hating social media Are we getting our social media growth advice in all the wrong places? - The power of truisms How do we pull people in without posting calls-to-action all the time? - How to go beyond surface level opinions Why do we have to know what we wish was different about this world?

Impulse spending is so normalized and integrated into our culture, we do it without thinking. It's really easy to be persuaded by discounts, flashy ads, and social media trends, but impulse buying can impact our relationships, mindset, and finances. How do we live a contented life without being swayed by external factors? How can we be more mindful of what we have rather than spending unnecessarily? Impulse shopping mentor Makeda Mutema Newton joins me for this episode to discuss impulse buying, and how to make sure that it doesn't hinder our financial freedom. There are so many reasons why we impulse shop but we don't realize it until we sit down and think about it. -Makeda Mutema Newton 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode - Attachment to belongings Letting go of things can be difficult but how can not letting go hold us back? - Why do we impulse buy How do sales, influencers, and targeted ads encourage unnecessary spending? - Knowing how to engage with sales Sales and discounts get a bad rap, but how can we engage with them so that we don't spend money unnecessarily? Guest Bio Makeda is a Caribbean transplant from Trinidad living in North Carolina with her musician hubby and their three boys. Her own experience with impulse shopping led her to uncover what's really important - a contented life that's rooted in gratitude, her personal relationship with God, and creating memorable moments with her family. She is on a mission to help as many women curb their impulse shopping habits and restore their self-control. For more information, head to https://www.makedanewton.com/ and follow @makedanewton on Instagram.

Sometimes life throws curve balls that we simply can't avoid and we have to accept, be it a business downfall or health diagnosis. It's normal to have feelings of dread when it happens, but we have to remember that we still have a future. There is value in improving perspective and being in charge of our own story. How do we learn the skill of contentment and joy? Are there ways to be less stressed and more joyful even in the midst of a storm? Life coach Leann Stickel joins me to discuss her journey after being diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis and how she is even more confident and content than ever. There's things in life that we can't change and that we did not choose. We have to own it, keep it and deal with it. -Leann Stickel 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode - We can't fix everything The truth is that we can't always fix everything and we have to accept that. It can be difficult to acknowledge but how can we work through it? - Our businesses are highly personal Do the ups and downs of running our businesses hit us harder because our businesses are so personal? - Why being positive is a skill Being negative can take away so much from our lives. How do we shift our mindset?Is being positive and content a skill that we can master? Guest Bio Leann Stickels superpower is being genetically optimistic. She was diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis in 2009 at the age of 29. However, Leann believes finding the positive in negative situations is a skill that can be learned, practiced, and perfected. Her mission is to teach her time tested tools to as many people as possible, so that they can experience the magic of positivity too! As a life coach, Leann is here to help you. She's your personal cheerleader, supporter, and advocate. Her goal is to empower you to be in charge of your story. During her 12 years living with MS, Leann has founded a non-profit, Tri 2 Beat MS Kids' Triathlon. After 8 years she's have raised over $100,000 to help patients living with MS True joy in Leann's life is being a wife to Don and a mom to Marina, Paige, Hudson & Cadence. Visit https://www.leannstickel.com/coaching Find Leann on Instagram @iamleannstickel Find Leann on Facebook @notdefinedbychronicillness Find Leann on LinkedIn @leannstickel

There are thousands of tools and platforms that can boost our businesses and grow our professional presence online. Pinterest is no different and when we really know how to tap into it, it can help our business to expand. How does Pinterest work for the B2B space? What are some of the things we need to familiarize ourselves with before getting started with Pinterest? In this episode, I am joined by Pinterest Marketing and Ads Strategist Emilee Vales to talk about Pinterest for business, how to understand it better, how it makes content easier to consume, and the pros of being a freelancer. In the beginning for a while, I really just learned by doing.- Emilee Vales 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode - The best products to market on Pinterest Pinterest doesn't work for everyone but how can we figure out if it can work for us and our business? - How Pinterest can work for businesses Can we leverage Pinterest as a business marketing tool and not just a place for inspiration? - The flexibility of being a freelancer When it comes to being a freelancer, flexibility is one of the main topics to talk about. How does being a freelancer free up time in your day to accomplish more? Guest Bio Former teacher turned Pinterest Marketing and Ads Strategist, Emilee Vales thrives on diving into her clients data to create personalized strategies that turn their traffic into profit! When she's not maximizing her clients' marketing strategies, she's educating her students on how to take their business to the next level with Pinterest. Free Masterclass: https://courses.emileevales.com/my-pinterest-quickstart Pinterest Marketing Magic: https://emileevales.com/pinterest-marketing-magic/ Pinterest Manager Academy (application call): https://emileevales.as.me/pinterestmanager Visit www.emileevales.com TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@emileevales Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/emileejvales/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilee.vales/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/emileevales YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@emileevales/featured

Many women in the B2C and the B2B space are finding themselves in the business friendzone. We help other people with their lives, relationships, health and more, and become so familiar, we get treated as a friend rather than a mentor. Why is being in the friendzone in the marketing industry a huge problem? And how do we fix it? In this episode, I discuss how to move out of the friendzone and into the mentorship zone, why we don't want to be in the friendzone and why so many wonderful women are finding themselves in this position. We don't want to be in the friendzone because otherwise you're just building a business that doesn't give anything back to you. -Dana Malstaff 3 Things You'll Learn in This Episode -How to tell if you're in the friendzone There are certain indicators that can tell us if we're in the business friendzone. How do we figure out what these are? -Share your scars, not your wounds When it comes to sharing our experiences, how do we make sure that we share them as a way to move forward? -How verbiage can tell if you are putting yourself in the friendzone. Can the language we use in our texts, emails and even daily conversations can be a contributing factor to putting ourselves in the friendzone?