Tandem Talks Podcast

HIGHLIGHTS

01:30 Updates on Ashley's life and being a mom and executive

05:27 Successful moms today also have side hustles

07:13 Early mistakes in business and nurturing the entrepreneurial mindset

16:02 Frontloading risk and learning through experience 

19:30 Delegating and prioritizing your time for what's truly important

23:43 Ashley's 7 best business decisions

29:22 Connect with Ashley

QUOTES

05:34 "There are lots of women, especially moms, who are doing amazing things in their jobs. Like really making a big impact. And then coming home and everybody has a side hustle."

07:59 "My business just got eaten by the recession and I was sort of spit out from that experience feeling like well, that was a gigantic mistake. I couldn't quite see that it had gotten me into tech and taught me to be a programmer."

10:38 "You think of it like side hustles, and I think of it like I have 24 hours in a day and I really don't want to be dedicated to just 1 thing. Because that's boring and also I'm a multifaceted person."

12:21 "I actually have a hard and fast rule, but I don't create anything until I've sold it. There's no point putting your time and effort into something that you haven't validated as being something someone will buy."

25:06 "The reason that I started VA agency is because I kept looking over the shoulders of my clients and saying, I don't understand how you're going to get anything done. You are smired in admin and someone else can be doing this for you."

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HIGHLIGHTS

02:43 Personal development: Learning through the experience of entrepreneurship

05:48 Knowing when it's time to take action and not fearing failure

09:27 Following mentors and inspirations on social media 

17:36 Discerning your own values and disagreeing with content creators

21:07 Using time blocks and being mindful of energy levels to stay focused 

26:25 Mentors versus general counsel: Getting advice based on your needs right now

28:19 Books you should be reading

QUOTES

03:25 "Entrepreneurship is the best form of self-development out there because it challenges you and you have to go and create something. And experiential learning is ultimately more powerful than, most of the time, academic learning."

04:29 "Take massive amounts of action. The more I've been around business owners and entrepreneurs, they're just like always taking action. They don't allow fear to paralyze them, they allow fear to temper them."

07:16 "I just see so many people gripped by fear of failing or looking silly, and I think we just have to embrace that you will look silly. So get out there and also win while you're doing it versus just reading a book on the bench."

18:01 "We have to get good at thinking for ourselves and really sorting through what is relevant to us and what we believe in. It sometimes feels like this package deal like you buy into Mel Robbins or you don't."

22:32 "Maybe it's a timer, maybe it's just very well-defined time blocks in your calendar, maybe you have a to-do list on social media or online, wherever you're doing your things. But having almost your own curriculum and roadmap can be so, so powerful."

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HIGHLIGHTS

01:21 The serendipitous beginnings of vChief

04:51 vChief: Connecting independent chiefs of staff to your business

09:01 Starting out: Creating autonomy and overcoming obstacles

14:50 Finding trustworthy talent and learning to let go

18:11 Networking and coaching prepared Madeleine to scale up 

24:19 Set boundaries and delegate to free up time to do the most important tasks

31:28 Common mistakes: Doing everything and not keeping the right people

38:06 Work shenanigans in Vietnam and future plans

QUOTES

04:15 "I think what I saw when I started that hustle and the networking, who can I work with? The demand was just so clearly bigger than what I could personally do. But that's when it sort of became, what could this business be?"

06:28 "They all work with the aim of helping a leader really prioritize the things where they can have the most impact, and be able to have someone who they can just say, okay you deal with this, you deal with this, you deal with this."

12:49 "You're the one doing the hustle, you're the one who has the relationships, and therefore people want to work with you. So how do you shift that client's mindset to, I have built this business full of equally amazing people and you would be great with them?"

26:12 "We're getting to the stage of organization that other people need to be making decisions and I can't be involved in every decision. How do I pull myself up and out of that and empower other people to drive those decisions?"

32:51 "Figuring out how to delegate and automate things is incredibly important to a leader and figuring out where they can have the biggest impact towards getting to that vision, whether that's a lot of growth or whatever they want."

Learn more and connect with Madeleine in the links below.

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeleineniebauer/
• Website - https://www.virtualchiefofstaff.com/

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HIGHLIGHTS

01:42 Teaming up and founding Infinite Design House

09:06 Obstacles in scaling: How to spend your time wisely and choose your projects

21:55 Building the mental skills to be successful in entrepreneurship

28:42 For side hustlers: Branding and content tips to get started

35:29 Deciding on the right mentor takes a mix of data and gut feel

40:41 Take ownership of your business and think big

47:02 How to connect with Lisa and Eric

QUOTES

10:29 "It goes back to getting really clear on the things that you and only you can do in your business. So when I do X, income, impact, joy, goes up in the business. When I do X, I don't even need to be doing X, someone else could do X or it sucks the life out of me."

11:42 "Nobody knows our content. Sure, they can. Sometimes they make it even better than you could have ever made it. But it's letting go of that control."

27:06 "I realize the way I was speaking to myself and, when you don't have self-worth and you don't value yourself, you don't charge what you're worth. You don't put yourself in rooms where you're making moves."

42:06 "We think it has to look a certain way or be a certain way and we're hoping somebody else is going to create it or someone else is going to give us the answer. You have all the tools to create whatever that thing is."

43:38 "Think massive and then just take one tiny step to starting that thinking, projecting that way."

Learn more and connect with Lisa & Eric Pezik in the links below.

• LinkedIn (Lisa) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisapezik/
• LinkedIn (Eric) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/epezik/
• Website (Lisa) - https://www.lisapezik.com/
• Website (Infinite Design House) - https://infinitedesignhouse.com/

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HIGHLIGHTS

02:32 Circumstances introduce Chris to web design and podcasting

07:48 Powering through obstacles and motivating yourself with your passion

13:41 Community and networking propels your side hustle unlike any other 

20:16 People should trust their capacity to reinvent themselves

25:37 Don't fear failure for it is a necessary part of success

28:21 Normalizing mental health has a positive ripple effect in all aspects of your life

36:51 How to use Upwork as your main sales platform 

QUOTES

08:55 "You need to figure out, what's the carrot that's going to keep you moving forward? For me, it was finding and saying yes to projects before I knew what I was doing."

15:32 "The thing that we tend to neglect is that community aspect. If anything, the community aspect is probably one of the biggest reasons why people make it as business owners, entrepreneurs, or side hustlers."

19:08 "Soft skills and hard skills are all something that should be learned and should be developed on an ongoing basis."

26:03 "Failure... it's not a normal part, it's a necessary part of success. You fail forward towards success. You don't win towards success. Failures will teach you more than any success that you have."

30:29  "The only way to get real lasting recovery is to make sure you're addressing some of those things that have happened in your life."

Learn more and connect with Chris Misterek in the links below.

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-misterek/
• Website - https://selfmadewebdesigner.com/
• Upwork for Web Designers - https://www.upworkfordwebesigners.com/

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Working in the healthcare field for more than 20 years, Deb Zahn took advantage of the knowledge, skills, and expertise gained in traditional work settings and transitioned to being a consultant. As she dabbled as an independent consultant, doing side gigs while working on her day job, Deb got a taste of what it would be like and loved it!

Fast forward to today, Deb Zahn is the CEO of Deb Zahn Consulting, LLC and Craft of Consulting, which helps accomplished professionals become successful consultants while living the lives they want.

Learn more and connect with Deb Zahn on the links below.

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah-zahn-she-her-678b254/
• Website - https://www.craftofconsulting.com/

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Carrie and Craig scaled their first side hustle, Click Global LLC, to $3MM+ in US revenues. The firm focused on building & monetizing online communities using already existing business systems to launch, scale, & duplicate more efficiently than real estate or traditional franchising.

After stabilizing a majority of these revenues, they achieved their primary goal of stepping away from Corporate America, in their 20s/30s, respectively. They now consider themselves full-time parents & entrepreneurs. They invest the majority of their days into their children, traveling, & love playing "entrepreneur" with the skills they have developed.

In 2013, they launched CC Global, LLC to coach & educate others on how to emulate their results. After assisting several professionals in building $1MM+ businesses, they began running larger seminars & speaking events across the US, Canada, UK, Caribbean & Australia. They have the privilege of speaking to 20K+ people a year & coaching a few dozen individuals annually. They believe real empowerment occurs through personalized mentorship, not necessarily by acquiring more degrees or getting lost consuming random self-improvement or motivational content.

They are thrilled to announce they launched their first non-profit, TandemGiving, Inc., at the close of 2019. The organization is designed to raise funds for children in need.

Tandem Talks is a podcast meant to empower you to live your life, your way. Join us as we go deeper with entrepreneurs and their journey creating success in business and life.

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Chelsea Haines is a Gut Health Coach at A Mindful Life, LLC. She helps heal physical pain, mental anxiety and harness a strong gut instinct using the power of intuitive eating, the abundance mindset, and the science of the gut-brain axis in order for you to live the life promised to you: easeful, downstream, profitable, joyful, and full of FREEDOM!

Chelsea is also the show host of the podcast called Let’s Start Health. A podcast that is willing to start the awkward, vulnerable, weird, or even hard conversations needed to break through stigmas of mental and physical health and educate and inspire those on a healing journey.

Learn more and connect with Chelsea Haines on the following links below.

• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theyogiyachtie/
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelseahaines/
• Website - http://www.chelseahainescoaching.com/

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Jackie Hermes is the Founder and CEO of Accelity, a B2B SaaS marketing solutions company that services clients from planning to execution and offers: Inbound marketing strategy & execution, Inbound software implementation & management—Hubspot, Online lead generation & qualification, Content marketing (blogging + email marketing + social media), and Website design & management.

Prior to establishing her own company, Jackie started her entrepreneurial journey with a cookie company, Sweet Monkees, where she turned four vegan cookie recipes into a business - from baking them, to designing the brand’s packaging, to finding a kitchen that would increase its production, and all the way to marketing and distribution. After successfully building this business from the ground-up and selling to over 10 grocery chains, she sold the business to establish Accelity. 

Ryan Calton, on the other hand, is an Executive Finance and Strategic Advisor who is the CEO of a growth-oriented fractional CFO consultancy - RC MKE LLC, a company he founded for the simple reason that he wishes to shift the trend for most CFOs where instead of focusing on cost-saving strategies, he wishes to impart the focus on building sustained growth and increasing shareholder value. With this, he works with small to mid-sized companies that wish to increase their revenue, profitability, and enterprise value.

Prior to founding his own consultancy, Ryan was the Vice President of Finance and Operations at The Brewer Company, a medical device innovations company. And before that, he was also the Chief Financial Officer at Hampel Corp.,  a manufacturer of thermoformed plastics. 

Learn more and connect with Jackie Hermes & Ryan Calton through their LinkedIn: 

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/thejackiehermes/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryancalton/

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Marcus Chan is the Founder and President of the Venli Consulting Group, a professional training and coaching platform that specializes in helping businesses, sales professionals, sales leaders, and everyone else who wishes to achieve supercharged results. 

A professional who achieved a lot in the course of his career, Marcus is an Executive Member on the Forbes Business Council and has also been featured in Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, MarketWatch, and LinkedIn Top Voice. He’s also recognized by Salesforce as the Top Sales Influencer to Follow.

Growing up in a scarce environment, Marcus put himself through college earning his MBA a few years into the workforce. After achieving the point where he’s leveled the playing field, he eventually got the chance to work for two international Fortune 500 companies and was promoted 10 times in the 10 years he’s worked for them. During his 14+ years of tenure in Corporate America, he won countless awards and has been ranked in the top percentile every single year and in his last role, he led one of the top sales regions in the company with over 110 employees. He was 22 when he built his first multi-million dollar business and when he was in his early 30s he led a team that generated over $700+ million dollars in contracting new business sales. 

With the tide of his success, Marcus eventually left the corporate world to pursue his passion of wanting to do something greater and to give back to the world. 

Learn more and connect with Marcus Chan through the below links: 

• Websites:
  • https://www.sixfiguresalesacademy.com/home-1
  • https://venliconsulting.com/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcuschanmba/

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