The podcast for business owners and professionals excited and inspired by success and focused on personal growth. If you’re someone taking action towards your dreams, this show is for you! Join us for lots of laughs and learning with Content Writer, and owner of She Built This, Emily Aborn, as she interviews successful women entrepreneurs, professionals, and those who support them who are changing the world by following their passions! One part inspiration, one part practical tips and tangibles, and many parts FUN! Learn more about She Built This by visiting: www.shebuiltthis.org Connect with host, Emily Aborn: www.emilyaborn.com
Episodes
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
As entrepreneurs, we spend a lot of time working in our businesses. The key to grow your business faster as an entrepreneur is to carve out quality time to work on your business too.
A CEO Day allows you to focus on strategy for your business and the tasks that will move the needle forward.
In this episode, I share with you:
- Why you probably need a CEO day (even if you think you don't)
- How to find TIME for a CEO day when you're already super busy working in your business
- What you can accomplish / achieve in your CEO day and what to focus on
- How to structure your CEO day for success
- Whether or not you should do a CEO day alone or with friends
- And more!
Three Ways I Can Help with Yours:
- Book me for a 90-minute Strategy Session: what’s working and not working in your content strategy, messaging, and overall aspects of your marketing, plus an action plan to move forward.
- Looking for some CEO day pals? Check out the She Built This community and get involved.
- If you’d like me to come be a resource for you at an in-person CEO Day with friends (local to New England), we can chat about that too and what that looks like! Email me: emily@emilyaborn.com
Saturday May 21, 2022
Saturday May 21, 2022
BONUS Episode!
This week, I'm bringing you the journey of LaFortune Djabea, President and Owner of Mola Foods in Nashua, NH.
This is an inspiring success story of How She Built This, from when she first came to the U.S. in the year 2000 with just $200 in her pocket to now having her products in many retail locations through New Hampshire.
In this episode, Lafortune shares her story of entrepreneurship, and what NOURISH means to her. I hope this episode and conversation inspire you as much as me!
Key Takeaways:
- Don't stop believing yourself and your dream
- Don't wait to start! Start small, if you have to, start scared, but start now.
- When you focus on self-love and nourishing yourself, it's a ripple effect that allows you to provide others nourishment as well.
- Care about yourself enough to say NO to things that don't serve you
- Your failures are stepping stones!
Links Mentioned:
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 2022
When you hear the word "sales" does it make you want to run for the hills and never return?
A lot of people associate selling with an "icky" feeling. They don't want to come across as pushy, shiesty, or gross to their buyer.
Just like there's no one magic formula to selling (despite what anyone on the internet tells you), there's no right or WRONG way to sell except for in a way that feels inauthentic and misaligned for YOU.
The experience can be a present, connected, aligned conversation rather than just a chance for CONVERSION.
When you come from the place that feels true to your style and natural tendencies, the outcome is a lot brighter (whether they buy from you or choose someone else)!
In this conversation, my guest Lisa Dadd and I get into:
- How approaching sales through the lens of your soul's natural language can help the selling process feel a whole lot easier
- What objections come up when Lisa helps people improve their sales
- What the seven archetypes are of Soul Sales and how you can start identifying your unique style
- How knowing your Soul Sales archetype can empower you to feel more aligned in every aspect of life
- How to build the know, like, and trust factor faster
- And more!
Links Mentioned:
Lisa Dadd's Website (check out her FREE download to start discovering your own archetype)
About Lisa Dadd
Lisa Dadd spent 15 years in the competitive industry of corporate healthcare, mastering strategic sales, marketing and management skills, from the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. In addition to the success, climbing the corporate ladder offered, was a deep sense her greatest potential was yet to be realized. It took years as an independent consultant, and an intense training in leadership development and social emotional learning, to uncover an innate way to access that potential.
Leveraging a diagnostic tool called Soul Language, Lisa now works with innovative leaders to integrate an awareness of who they are at their core, into the way they do business. The success of her process is particularly related to her unique approach to sales training. Soul Sales teaches the art of creating buy-in, through the enrolling language of one’s natural essence.
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Wednesday May 11, 2022
“I’ve done the thing, I’ve arrived... why do I feel so terrible?” This is the question my guest, Cait Donovan, spent almost seven years asking herself and working to get to the root of.
Why did she feel exhausted all the time? Resentful of people asking her to do things? And mad at people she loved?
She’d heard of burnout affecting hospital workers and corporate workers, but not someone who’d done their own thing and built their own business.
Cait made it her full-time job to heal from her burnout and figure out what to do with what she was feeling. In today’s episode, she shares what she did to start her journey towards feeling NOURISHED again and how she helps others do the same.
In our conversation, we talk about:
- The internal and external causes of burnout
- What the signs of burnout are (and what they aren’t!)
- Whether or not you need to quit your job or close your business to recover and heal
- How long the recovery process takes
- Why being positive can be toxic when you’re burned out and what to do instead
- How to use your resentment as a superpower and the valuable information it can provide for moving forward
- What to do if you “suck” at relaxing
- And more!
Links Mentioned:
Resentment Journal Mini Course
About Cait:
Cait Donovan is a Keynote speaker, one of New York City’s leading burnout experts, host of “Fried – The Burnout Podcast,” and author of the book "The Bouncebackability Factor". Her creative burnout recovery solutions have been featured on podcasts and online magazines such as “Forbes”, “NPR,” “Thrive Global,” and “The New York Post”. Cait and her husband spent 12 years living in Europe, but now make their home in New Jersey. When Cait is not speaking or coaching on burnout, you can find her with her husband and pup outside: hiking, rowing, golfing, or cross-country skiing.
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Ever try to meditate and feel instantly like your itchy from head to toe? Or that your brain suddenly starts to cyclone with ideas and thoughts no matter how hard you try to stop it?
My guest, Terri Hamilton, talks about how meditation used to be hard for her too and what she did to help! She shares the power of incorporating mindfulness into our every day, with simple habits, tips, and practices you can start doing the second the podcast ends!
Tune in as Terri shares:
- How more mindfulness is attainable for everyone and is accessible to us every day!
- What "mindfulness" and "positive mindset" are and how they're different
- How to easily begin today implementing a new mindfulness practice
- Whether or not the power of positivity and mindfulness can change our lives. Spoiler alert: IT CAN.
- And of course, Terri's favorite kind of cereal and how she needs our help tracking it down if we see it on the grocery store shelves!
Links Mentioned:
Connect with Terri:
Terri is a mindfulness and positivity coach who helps busy women, parents, and teenagers live a healthier and more gratifying life. In her 10 years at Apparent Connection, Terri now works virtually with entrepreneurial and ambitious women, parents, teens, and small groups on mindfulness and positivity. She believes in personalizing every coaching call based on your unique aspirations, thoughts, and situation to find positivity techniques that will work with your life.
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Are you waiting for clarity or confidence before getting started or taking a step forward?
You're not alone. So many of us wait until we feel "ready" before taking action. In this week's episode, I'm joined by Andreea Sandu, High Performance Coach and author of The Introvert That Could.
Andreea generously shares wisdom and strategies around how to stop overthinking, and turn obstacles you're facing into strategies for success.
With less fear, overwhelm, and procrastination.
We get into:
- How Andreea's willingness to dive in and follow the breadcrumbs of life brought her to where she is today
- The habits of high performance individuals and what helps them be successful
- What's really getting in our way when we think we "don't have enough time"
- How to find clarity and confidence by looking backwards
- The permission slip to do something just because you want to!
- And so much more!
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Pre-Order Your Copy of Andreea's Book The Introvert That Could
About Andreea Sandu
Andreea is a Certified High Performance coach, helping entrepreneurs and leaders improve their productivity, influencing skills, and confidence, and cope with the high demands of their role. She’s an ex software engineer and has worked for corporations like Microsoft and Amazon in both leading and individual contributor positions.
Wanting to have more impact, she decided to move on to entrepreneurship and started multiple ventures including a profitable fitness blog, an online yoga studio, and a coaching practice. Currently in the process of publishing her first book, Andreea is dedicated to showing people that they can make time for everything they want to do and be successful both at work and at home.
She considers herself a "visible introvert" and in her book, "The Introvert That Could", she explores the middle ground between staying in the introvert comfort zone and being able to lead and succeed in what seems to be an extroverted world.
Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/by_andreeasandu/
Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theandreeasandu/
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
If you or someone you support tends more towards the introverted side, this episode is a must-listen!
You'll walk away from this one with a lot of takeaways and aha's of how to live in alignment to your true nature and build your business through more ease-filled actions that feel right to you.
Jen Jones is a successful introverted entrepreneur who has built both a thriving real estate agency and a coaching practice for others just like her - the intropreneur!
When growing your dreams, introversion can be used as a strength and superpower and doesn't need to hold you back from building a successful business or creating meaningful connections and relationships with others.
In this conversation, we get into:
- How Jen discovered she was an "intropreneur" and what she decided to do about it
- The four types of introversion and how to identify your own flavor of introvert
- What being authentic feels like and means
- Should we really "fake it til' we make it?"
- What the gifts are of introversion and how to use these innate strengths intentionally
- Tips and strategies for networking and connecting with others
- How to make selling feel less icky
- And more!
Links Mentioned in this Episode:
She Built This Website: www.shebuiltthis.org
Jen's Website: www.connectandelevate.com
Jen's Connect and Elevate Free Facebook Group
Connect with Jen via Email: jenjones@connectandelevate.com
About Jen:
Jen Jones is a REALTOR®, author, speaker, and an entrepreneur. She has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years and has successfully scaled businesses by building deep, meaningful relationships with her clients that inspire repeat business and referrals. She lives by the motto go deep not wide. She recently wrote Intropreneur: Strategies for Building a Business as an Introvert Entrepreneur.
Jen guides her clients through the four-step process to harness their introvert/authentic self, have more energy awareness so they can align their business and life with meaningful connections, elevate relationships, which produce more referral and repeat business with the right people.
As the mom of three kids, she gets how important it is to balance family and a fulfilling business that doesn’t drain your battery and burnout. When she’s not showing houses, helping clients or volunteering, you’ll find her enjoying her alone time, yoga, honing her intuition skills, meditating, and journaling.
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
What if being a better person was easier than you think?
My guest, Kate Hanley, shares how we can start becoming a better person in just a few minutes a day with some simple steps, intentional decisions, and upgrading our actions and habits.
We keep being a better person simple in this episode and talk about:
- What being a better person really means
- How YOU can start small today to become a better person
- Practical things you can do right now that will strengthen your better person muscles
- What intention looks like to Kate
- And how you can start rethinking your decision making to move from a place of fear to one of love.
Links Mentioned:
Connect with Kate on Instagram
Decision-Making Matrix (scroll to bottom of Kate Hanley's website and click "I want clarity!"
About Kate
Kate is the host of the "How to Be a Better Person" podcast, and the author of How to Be a Better Person, Stress Less, and The Anywhere, Anytime Chill Guide. Her work has been featured in Inc., Fast Company, Women’s Day, Fortune and the Harvard Business Review. Kate also appeared on the “Today Show”, where she noticed seconds before the cameras started rolling that her sweater was on backwards (it was the perfect opportunity to practice what she preaches.)
Kate lives in Providence, RI, with her husband, two kids, and a rescue dog named Cookie.
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
One simple question can help you focus on QUALITY over quantity and keep space on your calendar that isn't cluttered with events you said "yes" to because of:
- FOMO
- Other people's ideas of what you should be doing
- It was the cool thing to do in the moment
In this week's episode, Kristin Hardwick shares her journey with Minimalism in running two businesses and how keeping it simple can help you do MORE.
Kristin shares:
- About her recent decision to pivot away from a business and what she's doing instead
- What bothers her most in the entrepreneurial space
- What minimalism means when it comes to business and how we can apply it to our own lives and business
- Why quality is more important than quantity
- How one simple question can keep your calendar focused on what matters most and say "No" to the rest!
- And more!
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
Your website can be working for you behind-the-scenes even when you're sleeping, on vacation, or walking your dog. By harnessing the power of SEO, you can structure your website content in a way that naturally attracts your ideal audience.
There are people out there searching for exactly what you're offering, and want to choose YOU as the solution to their problems.
SEO is the direct path to helping them find YOU without you needing to be the one constantly ON and actively working to create that bridge all the time.
In this episode, Danielle Gagnon and I discuss:
- What SEO is and how to use as a marketing tool for your business
- How we can start improving the SEO on our websites starting today
- Where to come up with ideas for blog topics that your audience will actually read and will help drive traffic to your site
- How Etsy sellers can start to think about their SEO strategy
- And of course…. MORE!
Links Mentioned:
About Danielle:
Danielle Gagnon is a search engine optimization specialist and lover of all things content creation. After years of working as journalist and then marketing manager,
Danielle started her own business in 2018. Today, she helps female entrepreneurs grow their business organically - and massively - through SEO and content marketing. She is the creator of the Content Cash Machine Bootcamp, a 5-day mini course that teaches small business owners highly actionable SEO
basics. Danielle’s podcast, the Content Cash Machine Podcast, is an extension of her one- on-one client work, connecting her audience with the best experts and top tips to level-up their marketing and use their content to grow their audience, get more leads and make more money.
Danielle is a mom of two young kids, is married to her high school sweetheart and is passionate about reading, spending time outdoors and learning new things.