How are you showing up in your business - as an expert, as an advocate, as a supernova? Or are you playing it safe? Putting yourself out there day-after-day is freaking HARD - it requires so much of us: courage, confidence, grit, faith. But we can so easily undermine all these traits with spray-and-pray marketing efforts and misplaced humility. What would change if you fully owned your expertise and took up more space? This week, Annie P. sits down with powerhouse and native Kansan, Kim Hayden. Dorothy Gale's adventure down the Yellow Brick Road is a lifelong love of Kim's - accompanying her through her abusive childhood, through multiple TV shows, career pivots, and millions of dollars made. In this episode, she delivers a masterclass on what it is to have true staying power in your industry - using only the skills that have been inside you all along. No Wizard required - this episode will unlock the brilliance and confidence lingering in you! *Parentpreneur advisory: this episode contains colorful language. Connect with Kim via her website, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Join her free membership for powerhouse women here. Got a song in your heart? This week's episode joins our Legitimate Musicals playlist - featuring lessons from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Frozen 2, The Greatest Showman, and more. Craving connection, co-working, and a way to enjoy your time on LinkedIn? Join our free community, The Legitimati, and do your weekly homework with us! It's also the perfect way to rub elbows with our fabulous guests. Tired of feeling sleazy when you sell - or avoiding "the ask" altogether? Text the word EASY to 411-321 for Annie P's guide to ditching your sales baggage. (Outside the US? No problem! Just text EASY to 1-909-741-1321 on WhatsApp!) For full show notes and more visit www.toolegitimatetoquit.com

Molly Beran, a project management guru and corporate trainer, shares her insights on juggling creativity and discipline. She emphasizes that structure can enhance creativity, debunking the myth that constraints stifle innovation. Molly draws parallels between project management and parenting, highlighting essential organizational skills. They also discuss the Netflix hit The Home Edit, showcasing how decluttering can boost productivity and mental clarity. Tune in for practical tips to transform chaos into creativity!

Oh, Social Media - so vast, so distracting, so entirely overwhelming! As a small business owner, the temptation to show up on all platforms (and often!) is very real. What will actually move the needle in our business (and make us some dang money)? This week, Annie P. sits down with social media maven and design-pro Mariana Padilla. Mariana offers up an absolute crash course in all things social media - from Twitter to TikTok - and has a few suggestions for Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg. (First off, get a haircut, dude.) It's a must-listen if you're bogged down in social tasks, uneasy about incorporating video, or are tired of "spray and pray" marketing. Then, Mariana and Annie compare social media to the crime-and-lust-ruled landscape of Westworld. Is it really that different than how we show up online? What lies beneath all the glitz and glamour of your online presence? *Parentpreneur advisory: this episode contains colorful language. Connect with Mariana via her website, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Grab her free Customer Discovery Toolkit here. Craving connection, co-working, and a way to enjoy your time on LinkedIn? Join our free community, The Legitimati, and do your weekly homework with us! It's also the perfect way to rub elbows with our fabulous guests. Tired of feeling sleazy when you sell - or avoiding "the ask" altogether? Text the word EASY to 411-321 for Annie P's guide to ditching your sales baggage. (Outside the US? No problem! Just text EASY to 1-909-741-1321 on WhatsApp!) For full show notes and more visit www.toolegitimatetoquit.com

Are you craving an "Easy Button?" Have you invested time, energy, and cold-hard cash on someone else's methodologies, swipe files, or get-rich-quicker schemes only to wind up with copy or offerings that are lackluster? Shake off the shame - it's time to use your voice (yes, the one you already have, quirks and all!) to magnetize your audience to you. This week, Annie P. sits down with conversion copywriting expert Christy Cegelski. Together, they touch on attention, manipulation, tone, and tenacity. How can we stand out as our true selves, but in a way that makes others feel fully seen? And do we need to take ourselves so dang seriously? Then, the two responsible Cameron-types take a few pages out of Ferris Bueller's playbook. It's a must-listen if you want to get more done -  but also have way more fun. *Parentpreneur advisory: this episode contains colorful language. Grab Christy's free guide to writing emails that sell here and don't forget to check out her podcast, Captivate + Convert! Craving connection, co-working, and a way to enjoy your time on LinkedIn? Join our free community, The Legitimati, and do your weekly homework with us! It's also the perfect way to rub elbows with our fabulous guests. Tired of feeling sleazy when you sell - or avoiding "the ask" altogether? Text the word EASY to 411-321 for Annie P's guide to ditching your sales baggage. (Outside the US? No problem! Just text EASY to 1-909-741-1321 on WhatsApp!) For full show notes and more visit www.toolegitimatetoquit.com

Promoting a business while a war rages and the pandemic drags on is a weird freaking sensation. Your body says "go back to bed and stay there" but your brand demands you get out there and "PERFORM, dammit!" How can we be conscious, concerned citizens of the world and responsible business owners at the same time? The official answer: feel your feels, y'all. This week, Annie P. is joined by trauma coach, financial wizard, and dear friend Stephanie Cleary. It's a candid conversation that spans dealing with fear, disgust, burnout, doubt, stress, longing, and deep sadness, but with plenty of laughs and insights along the way. Then, the two mystery-lovers explore the power of scrappiness, community, and self-reliance as demonstrated by high-school Private Eye, Veronica Mars. Finally, Annie brings it all home with homework centered on exploding your network through genuine admiration. *Parentpreneur advisory: this episode contains colorful language. This week's homework utilizes The Dream 100, refined and popularized by the king of traffic, Russell Brunson. Here is a great video that outlines the theory and process in detail, thanks to Funnel Hacking Live. Connect with Stephanie through her website and Instagram! Both Stephanie and Annie are working toward certifications in The Trauma of Money and want to shout out this important, powerful work. Craving connection, co-working, and a way to enjoy your time on LinkedIn? Join our free community, The Legitimati, and do your weekly homework with us! It's also the perfect way to rub elbows with our fabulous guests. Tired of feeling sleazy when you sell - or avoiding "the ask" altogether? Text the word EASY to 411-321 for Annie P's guide to ditching your sales baggage. (Outside the US? No problem! Just text EASY to 1-909-741-1321 on WhatsApp!) For full show notes and more visit www.toolegitimatetoquit.com Extra Credit: Don't forget to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! New episodes drop every Monday. Reviews and ratings really help our show grow, so thank you for the boost.

Are you operating in integrity with your price point? Moreover, are you working in harmony with your expertise? It's so easy to fall out of sync with our own teaching and methods from time to time. But, being a shoeless cobbler is risky in more ways than one - it can rob us of our credibility, legitimacy, sanity, and even health! How can we rise to the occasion of raising our rates, while remaining true and compassionate toward ourselves? This week, Annie P. (notorious low-ticket evangelist) changes her mind about high-ticket selling with the help of sensational salesman and exceptional human, Isaac Ho. Isaac pulls so much inspiration, strategy, and even mentorship out of Simba's journey from Pride Rock and back again and asks each of us the questions - are we scavenging for grubs when we should be dining only on the finest zebras? And, how can our own growth and success elevate the people who have always had our backs? *Parentpreneur advisory: this episode contains colorful language. Connect with Isaac through his website and Facebook! Craving connection, co-working, and a way to enjoy your time on LinkedIn? Join our free community, The Legitimati, and do your weekly homework with us! It's also the perfect way to rub elbows with our fabulous guests. Tired of feeling sleazy when you sell - or avoiding "the ask" altogether? Text the word EASY to 411-321 for Annie P's guide to ditching your sales baggage. (Outside the US? No problem! Just text EASY to 1-909-741-1321 on WhatsApp!) For full show notes and more visit www.toolegitimatetoquit.com Extra Credit: Don't forget to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! New episodes drop every Monday. Reviews and ratings really help our show grow, so thank you for the boost.

Even the most mundane entrepreneurial workdays can feel like epic, near-impossible tests sometimes. We have so many details to keep track of, tasks to complete, shiny objects to avoid - and it seems like the bigger our hearts are, the shakier our boundaries become. How can we give ourselves the best chance of success? In this week's tender and hilarious episode, Steven Hyatt, The Accountability Wizard, offers two key ingredients of lasting success: energy management and companionship! He dismantles the myth of multitasking, illuminates the philosophy of Flow and how to achieve more of it, and keeps Annie P. laughing. Then, they embark on a journey through their mutual favorite film trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (as perfected by Peter Jackson). He's a Gandalf, she's a Pippin, and together, this episode is unforgettable. *Parentpreneur advisory: this episode contains colorful language. Connect with Steve through his website, Facebook and LinkedIn! Tired of feeling sleazy when you sell - or avoiding "the ask" altogether? Text the word EASY to 411-321 for Annie P's guide to ditching your sales baggage. (Outside the US? No problem! Just text EASY to 1-909-741-1321 on WhatsApp!) For full show notes and more visit www.toolegitimatetoquit.com Extra Credit: Don't forget to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! New episodes drop every Monday. Reviews and ratings really help our little show grow, so thank you for the boost.

Anna Delvey - branding or fraud? Case study or criminal case? Where does a compelling brand story end and a lie begin? And how can we - regardless of our background - build something bigger than ourselves, inspire others to join in our vision, and provide complex, emotion-rich, consistent experiences? This week, Annie P. is joined by branding supernova Ari Krzyzek. Together, they unpack the critical components of a thriving online presence, the "which comes first - the message or the brand?" quandary, and how to seduce hearts and win minds without sacrificing your values. Then, Ari and Annie shift their focus to the enigmatic (and dare we say brilliant) Anna Delvey/Sorokin, her particular brand of genius, and how it was ultimately misused on the path to making ADF a reality. By her own admission, Anna Delvey is a f*cking legend, and by this episode's end, you'll be well on your way, too. *Parentpreneur advisory: this episode contains colorful language. Connect with Ari through her website, Instagram and LinkedIn! Tired of feeling sleazy when you sell - or avoiding "the ask" altogether? Text the word EASY to 411-321 for Annie P's guide to ditching your sales baggage. For full show notes and more visit www.toolegitimatetoquit.com Extra Credit: Don't forget to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! New episodes drop every Monday. Reviews and ratings really help our little show grow, so thank you for the boost.

How formal (and stuffy) does your business really need to be in order to be taken seriously? Are we still living in a "dress to impress" world, once we've left corporate confines? And - how can we lean into our own internal navigation in a world where everyone has an opinion (even if they've never run a business before)? This week, Annie P. sits down with the poster-child for living out loud, Jenny Ambrose. Part scientist, part artist, all powerhouse, Jenny knows a thing or two about standing out in crowded markets, connecting with buyers on a deep, emotional level, and not sweating the small stuff even while honoring the small details that make us unique. Then, Jenny and Annie embark on a journey in Moana - and once they start talking about Te Ka and Te Fiti being two sides of the same brand, who knows how far they'll go. *Parentpreneur advisory: this episode contains New Jersey levels of colorful language. Connect with Jenny through her website and Instagram! *** PLUS, a TLTQ first - Jenny actually made a tote bag of her tote bag moment. Take an adoring look (and grab yours) here! *** Tired of feeling sleazy when you sell - or avoiding "the ask" altogether? Text the word EASY to 411-321 for Annie P's guide to ditching your sales baggage. For full show notes and more visit www.toolegitimatetoquit.com Extra Credit: Don't forget to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! New episodes drop every Monday. Reviews and ratings really help our little show grow, so thank you for the boost!

What title do you use for yourself? Is it shiny and official-sounding? And more importantly - do you own that title with action? You may show up as a CEO in front of other people, but do you treat yourself like one? Do you honor yourself, reward yourself, and challenge yourself appropriately or are you waiting until after the next milestone? This week, Annie P. sits down with supernova strategist and photographer, Dana Magnus. This episode is absolutely not about faking it till you make it - it's about creating the habits and attitudes of success NOW, regardless of what our metrics dictate. Dana argues that your internal brand story is even more important than your external one before looking at the curmudgeon that launched a thousand laughs, Larry David. *Parentpreneur advisory: this episode contains colorful language. Dana would love for you to join her for an upcoming, free CEO Day! Tired of feeling sleazy when you sell - or avoiding "the ask" altogether? Annie P.'s free masterclass is for you.  For full show notes and more visit www.toolegitimatetoquit.com Extra Credit: Don't forget to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts! New episodes drop every Monday. Reviews and ratings really help our show grow, so thank you for the boost!