The Merrily Show

Welcome to Season THREE - we've revamped our show and interview questions to bring you a more in-depth look at how other business owners actually run their business and their lives.

Natalie Setareh joins us to discuss how she moved her business across the WORLD, the process she went through to discover her unique gifts, and how finding a gap in the market lead to creating a new revenue stream for her business.

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We're pressing pause on our interviews to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at your host. Today Meredith is discussing her controversial opinion on the state of the creative female entrepreneur industry, as well as outlining some upcoming changes for the show.

Key takeaways:
- Community is great, but not if its holding you back
- Why excluding men from all our conversations is hurting us
- The number one thing you're doin...

"If we were aiming to be realistic all the time, we wouldn't've become entrepreneurs."
Lili Leon went from illegally hosting wine tastings in her college apartment to being awarded a Future Founders Grant to running a now 3-year old business. From hosting wine tastings for corporate companies to partnering with another company to start a wine subscription business, Lili talks to us about listening to the market, man...

Mallory Denae is a certified personal stylist and owner of Slay Style Co. in Atlanta, GA. She speaks with us about the power of style, why you don't have to be Beyonce to work with a stylist, and why it's an underestimated but impactful tool for entrepreneurs.

Key takeaways from today's episode:

-What is a personal stylist and how it's very different from fashion bloggers or other fashionistas
-How she became traine...

Molly Young is an established wedding photographer based out of Atlanta, GA. She works with couples who "take life seriously but not themselves" and has a love for Harry Potter than cannot be rivaled. It this episode she chats with us about dealing with the pressure of keeping up with wedding trends and how she has learned to do her job as a self-proclaimed introverted extrovert.

Key Takeaways:

-How she handles being an ...

Meg Wheeler is the founder of the gift box business on a mission to lift women up. Based on the idea that one small gesture can have one big impact, her budget-friendly small moment gift boxes not only put a smile on the recipients face, but are sourced entirely from women-owned companies. She walks us through her mission, her struggles and triumphs as an entrepreneur, and lays out a lot of good advice.

Biggest takeaways from toda...

Jessica and Elizabeth are the co-founders of This Is Dime - a web design, development, and marketing agency. They come on the episode together to chat all things design and marketing, and share their honest experiences about what it took to get their business up to full-time and all that goes into their lives as entrepreneurs. 

Key takeaways:
-The difference between branding and marketing
-How a website can be both beautiful and s...

Lia Beatty is the CEO and Founder of the Telia Agency, a branding and marketing agency for small to medium sized businesses.

Starting a full agency by herself was certainly daunting, so she digs in and speaks with me about how she learned to outsource different roles and how she learned to trust people do those jobs.

Some other highlights include:

-How she helps her clients "Find the story" to create an impactful branding...

Katie Eaker is the host of the Hustlenomics Podcast, a wedding photographer, and a web designer. We discuss how she got into podcasting and what goes into choosing her guests, as well as how she managed to keep her business running after an unexpected move across the country!

Biggest takeaways include:
-Time management and running a biz while working part-time
-Her experience starting and hosting a podcast, including things like co...

This week's guest, Morgan Sandlin is founder of the ever-popular ATL Girl Gang here in Atlanta. The Girl Gang is a networking and social club for Atlanta women, and boy has it caught it on!

Boasting an impressive 17k instagram following in 1 year and more than 500 members in 6 months, Morgan Sandlin knows something about running a community or two!

She speaks candidly with us about:

- The beginning of her career and how she man...

Melissa Cassell on Running a Dropshipping Business, Making Lemons Out of Lemonade, & Being Taken Seriously As An Entrepreneur

Melissa Cassell runs not one but three successful businesses and is venturing into a fourth! From a job at a grocery store where she was basically told her age and gender would forever hinder her potential for success to venturing into the world of entrepreneurship, Melissa knows a thing or two about wor...

Cassandra McClure is a California beauty tycoon serving high end, luxury clients and grooming other beauty experts to succeed in their own rights (pun intended).

She embodies the idea of community over competition, and provides tons of insight on:

-Running a business
-Managing a team
-Empowering women to stand on their own
-How to not get taken advantage of when providing free work at the start of your business
-Finding your natura...

Our guest this week is Marla Lisman of Big Shots Photography! She is an award-winning senior photographer, budiour photographer, and educator.

I was excited to talk to Marla for several reasons, one of which was to ask her how her business has survived so many industry changes. She talks to us not only about that, but about how she believes her business and others can survive in the changes still ahead of us.

We talk failures, su...

Welcome back with season TWO of The Merrily Show! After listening to my audience and learning more about the podcast world, we're shifting to an interview-only style that will take you not only behind the scenes of successful and intelligent business women, but will discuss all things entrepreneurship and the lessons they have learned along the way.

We're getting the season kicked off with Amanda Freeman of Mixie Media, her...

Let's be honest - running a side hustle AND working a corporate job is no joke and can really take a toll on our personal lives. Enter Kris McPeak - together we discuss the conundrum of time management, the myth of balance, and the enigma of "having it all".

Whether you're working towards taking your business full-time or you're fine with it just staying a successful side-gig, Kris McPeak breaks down time manage...

Be honest with me... do you ignore your bookkeeping and finances because you're intimidated by them or you're afraid of what they may tell you?

Because that was totally the case with me before I got to speak with Katherine Pomerantz of The Bookkeeping Artist.

Not only is she a natural at easing your mind and talking you through money, but she specializes in helping creative entrepreneurs with our bookkeeping, so she knows e...

Are you undermining your own credibility without realizing it? Is your behavior, use of language, or appearance negatively impacting people's perception of you, and ultimately your business? You may be! Listen to today's episode to hear how and why these small things have huge negative impact, and a few ways to turn it around. 

Remember - your brand is not what you think it is, your brand is what your audience thinks it is.

You've heard people from all industries talking about niching down, and for good reason. Whether you're burnt out working with your current clients, or you want to be considered an industry expert, niching down is the way to go. Female entrepreneurs of all industries and businesses will get a lot out of today's interview episode!

Sam of S Photography and I talk about how to get past the fear of narrowing down your mark...