Why Are We Shouting? with Jill Salzman

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When’s the last time you had an honest conversation about the money you make?

If you’ve continued to charge prices that you set ages ago, or the idea of raising your rates scares you, or what other people in your industry charge…

…then let’s do a little more sharing. Because sharing is caring.

If you’re not sure whether you’re charging what you’re worth, it’s time to listen up.

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This one’s for the guys, the gals, and our non-binary pals.

We’re gonna talk about your hormones.

It’s time to go with the flow.

Rather than ignoring the obvious — that we ebb and flow just as much as our work does — let’s talk about real things that happen to real people that really affect our work week.

Folks + things mentioned in this episode:

* Don’t know how to track your hormones? This will instruct you.

* G...

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Do you still love Facebook? 

Is your favorite place to connect still LinkedIn? 

Are you still spending the majority of your bathroom time on Instagram?

Whether it’s from a purely personal point of view or a professional perspective, is spending all this time on social media helping you?

Or is it hurting you?

Folks + things mentioned in this episode:

* Listen to The Rabbit Hole, a New York Times 6-episode podcast s...

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Insults are everywhere. Politics is rife with disrespect. Social media feeds are full of slights, slaps, and snubs. The world is at war, and most of us are battling inner demons as we speak.

Can we at least escape it in the business world?

I’m not talking about that “customer is always right” crap. I’m talking business owner to business owner. Colleague to colleague. The folks that should be on your side but de...

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Where do you find folks to refer you business?

ChatGPT suggests that I can find them by creating a referral program and collecting testimonials. My mom tells me to call her. There’s gotta be a better way…

This week, I’m bringing in The Growth Coach’s own Brad Schneider to reveal just how easy it is to do the thing that you thought wasn’t gonna be so easy to do.

Folks + things mentioned in this episode:

* Check ou...

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This week, it’s time to state the obvious. 

There’s a lot going on in the world right now. It’s pretty heavy. 

We can feel pretty POWERLESS in what we can do to effect change.

What if we dealt with it all by cheering instead? Say, what would happen if someone spent an entire episode talking about how to cheer you on…?

Folks + things mentioned in this episode:

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Kevin Bacon likes to dance. How do I know?

Because I’m one degree from Kevin Bacon. You might be, too.

This week, with Kevin’s help, we’re exploring why we assume what we assume about people before we even meet them. We know what happens people ass-u-me, yes? And yet, we insist on doing it all the time. Let’s dig in to “But whyyyyyyyyy?!” so we can make it stop.

Folks + things mentioned in this episode:

* How to...

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How old were you the day you forgot how to dream?

Possibility is a hard concept for us to remember how to grasp. We can easily enter a world of possibility in our sleep, but finding a door to that world during the day feels…impossible.

Can we do anything to change that?

Folks + things mentioned in this episode:

* 5 Ways to Play Like a Kid As An Adult

* remember How To Dream (with Pictures)

* join The Founding Moms ...

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Where were you the moment you realized that the expert you’d hired to help you was taking you for a ride?

Was it in the middle of the project you worked on together? Six months later?

Find out how legendary company Sorrelli’s legendary Lily Oswald not only led her company to profitability…

…she also reveals how hiring an “expert” shaped her into the successful entrepreneur that she is today. 

Folks + things menti...

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What's your least favorite business title?

Let’s talk about your title. The title that you added to your LinkedIn profile and your business cards.

There’s a lot at stake when you announce your title to the world, and there are plenty of your colleagues that don’t want any part of it.

Folks + things mentioned in this episode:

* connect with me so I can check out your title and you can check out my title on Linked...

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If you wanna conquer your confidence when it comes to selling your stuff, there’s no need to turn to the experts. 

Find a first grader instead.

Kids can teach us an awful lot about how to ignore what other people might think of us. They intuitively understand that if you don’t ask, you won’t get it.

And if they’re anything like my firstborn daughter, they’ll surprise you by how easily they take to selling their...

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How many times did you ask someone to move a meeting last week?

How many times did someone ask you to shift the time of your Zoom call in the last few weeks?

ALERT! ALERT! There’s a rescheduling epidemic going on right this very minute and no one is addressing it head on. Let’s talk about it, shall we?

Folks + things mentioned in this episode:

* See? Google offers up thousands of results full of tips and tricks t...

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When you welcome a new member onto your team, what’s your onboarding process?

When you hire a contractor, how clear are you in your explanations about the work you want them to do?

When you gain a new client, are you making sure that they know what’s to come every step of the way?

This week, we’re gonna visit the wonderful world of Why-Didn’t-I-Think-of-That-Earlier as we learn from consultant Kathryn Smith that...

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I really do believe in a good business blunder. They’re the helpful lessons we never wanted. The saving graces that we didn’t ask for.

But the biggest blunders in history? They’re the collective mistakes we’ve made as a society. The ones that should never have been made.

Let’s talk about a few of of the entrepreneurs that we’ve lost along the way in making these big blunders. They’re only a sample of the Lost W...

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There are certain gifts that keep on giving…but we’re not so interested in receiving them.

One of these gifts is COVID, which came into our lives pretty quickly and gifted us a whole host of surprises that we weren’t prepared for.

Let’s revisit the fun times we all had during the pandemic and what life post-Rona has been like living with Long COVID.

Folks + things mentioned in this episode:

* The Coronavirus Comm...

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Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

But in my experience, where there’s a will, there’s a way to mess things up far worse than you ever thought possible. 

You’ll be very happy to hear that I’ve done it again.

If you thought you screwed anything up at work in the past few months, think again. (I really nailed it this time, too.)

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* more on the name Christine since clearly,...

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It’s high time that we recognize our instincts are here to serve us. 

When people are hard to read, or work responsibilities are varied, or life is overwhelming on even the best days, we still can’t seem to listen to our bodies when they know things before we do.

In this episode, we’re lucky enough to learn from a wise businesswoman named Anat Yaniv. She second-guessed her first impression and we’re just not go...

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Thinking about making a move to your next chapter?

It’s a tough one. When you’re ready to move on to a new project, role, or business that looks very different from the one you’re in now, it can feel impossible.

Every fear in the world crawls into your mind and you stay put because doing anything else seems that much harder.

But it doesn’t have to be so scary. Let’s make it easier on you.

Oh, and I’m roping my g...

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How much time are your kids spending on their screens?

There seems to be no good answer. No matter whether our children are on screens all day or they’re limited to 5 minutes, we’re judged incessantly and we keep getting it wrong.

This week, give the judgment a rest. Take a walk through how much of a privacy freak this podcast host is…and feel better about yourself for at least the next few minutes.

Folks + thin...