Miss Bossy Boots Podcast

In this day and age we are bombarded by messages from clients, staff, family and friends across a plethora of channels. Facebook Messenger, Instagram direct message, comments left on social posts, emails, website forms, phone calls, text messages. Arghhh.

In this episode of Miss Bossy Boots, Stacey and Jane tackle the topic of replying to all of these communications. What's best practice here? How do we manage expectations for replies? How do we manage people's expectations when it comes to expecting a reply?

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Time to reset for 2020! In this episode Stacey and Jane reflect back on what goals they set for 2019 vs what goals they achieved and how they achieved them (or didn't)!

They also reset their goals for 2020! Perfect week anyone? Stacey has some great recommendations as to how to achieve this!

Stacey is gearing up for a 3-month stint in NYC - of which she started planning for in 2010!! 

And if surrounding yourself with like-minded women (and men) who are all about keeping it real sounds like a great resolution for 2020, join us in our Miss Bossy Boots group. 

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How do we actively get better at business and life? Grit, deliberate practice and a whole lotta resilience. 

In this episode, we reference the book Grit, by Angela Duckworth and talk about one of the points she makes about deliberate practice. 

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Stacey wasn't expecting to like Lorraine Murphy's new book; Baby, You're Remarkable as much as she did. 

Work. Life. Kids. Balance. Stress. Burnout. We are ALWAYS on the hunt for #lifehacks that help us navigate all of this. In her new book, Lorraine delivers a no-BS guide to business with a new family - and in Stacey's case - a very established family! 

If Stacey has inspired you to get more of Lorraine's great guidance on this subject matter, you can buy her book here.

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This episode we speak to Kat Mclead. Kat is the creator of the Stay at Home Mom Entrepreneur. This is a framework that she created for creating a highly profitable business that she loves while working just 2 hours a day.

Kat shares how she started her first multiple 6 figure business 20 years ago. She hasn’t slowed down since. Her first business profits meant that she had way more money than her husband when they first got married, and was able to pay the entire $450,000 down payment on their home. Not that he minded!

She fully planned on being a pampered Stay at Home Mom, but once her son began preschool, and she actually had ME time again for the first time in years, she became restless. So she came out of “retirement” and started coaching her friends just to give her a little extra buzz.

She now helps stay at home moms find fulfilment and independent income outside of motherhood all while staying Mom first.

Connect with her here: https://www.sahmentrepreneur.com

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Fear can be debilitating. It can stop us from realising our potential. It can stand in the way of us jumping on an opportunity. It can infiltrate our conscious and deplete our confidence.

Fear can be hard to identify too. In our experience, fear often manifests as a multitude of excuses. OR simply as prolific procrastination.

'I don't have time', 'I'm not set up to do this', 'I don't have enough experience', 'I'll do it later'.

Any of these sound familiar?

So what do you do to overcome this fear? In this episode of Miss Bossy Boots, Stacey and Jane share their experience with fear. They also talk about some of the actions that they have personally taken to overcome fear in their career.

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If you have been listening to our recent podcasts that discuss Jane's first-ever book; How To Do Marketing - A Comprehensive Guide for Small Business, and wondering what the book is all about or even whether the book is for you, then listen up to this episode of Miss Bossy Boots!

You will also find this episode valuable if you are somewhat curious about how the dark art of marketing actually works. 

Stacey shares some of her personal key take-aways from the book such as:

> Marketing will not do all the heavy lifting. While effective marketing can encourage people to consider you and hopefully come and buy from you, delivering your customers an awesome experience is integral to optimising your marketing investment.

> The power of word-of-mouth. The detrimental effects of disappointing your customers and how you can combat and prevent negative online comments. 

>  What role a 'centre of influence' plays in your marketing eco-system. What is a centre of influence and how powerful building relationships with centre of influences can be to driving customers in your direction.

Jane also talks about the importance of setting goals to drive your marketing activity so that you can determine if you have achieved a successful outcome.

#allthemarketingtips

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A work-life balance may be nigh impossible to achieve, however, that does not mean that we can't at least try to schedule in self-care activities that will help us to survive the life of a working parent!

Eating well, exercising, relaxing, sleeping, learning - all of these things are necessary for us to live well, however these are the things that we often cast aside in order to get stuff done for work or family or whatever!

In an effort to encourage more 'me-time' Jane and Stacey have come up with the #flamingochallenge. This involves carving at least 1/2 hour out of your week - every week - where you do absolutely nothing!

Then, to prove that you have completed this task, you need to post a photo to Instagram and hashtag that proof with #flamingochallenge!

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