One Year From Now

Today, I'm chatting with minimalist marketing and business coach, Kyla Roma. Kyla specializes in helping creative business owners create marketing plans that don't make them want to poke their eyes out. We're talking about marketing that is simple, that you actually like, honoring the rhythms for your current season of life, and how all of this helps you with finding your true north in business. ...

Today, I'm chatting with Emma Siemasko, the main writer and founder of Stories by Emma - a content marketing consultancy. Emma and I talk about interviewing, her number one skill. She uses it to get primo information out of her subjects for her writing. It's a skill that's useful to many, so listen to her top tips for getting just the information you need. We also talk about the evolution of busin...

Today, I'm chatting with Heather Hawkins of Elevation Strategy, a PR agency that focuses on solopreneurs and personal brands. I'll admit, I was totally not up to speed with how much momentum and reach is available to us solopreneurs through PR and traditional media outlets. In the world of social and building your own platforms, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that there is still a lot of powe...

Today, we're chatting with Blake Thomas, Director of Engineering at No Red Ink. Blake has had a long career in technology, and the reason I want to share Blake with this community is that he is really practiced at making calculated career decisions. What does this mean for people who work for themselves? Well, it's easy to be business-centric and forget about the career we want and are crafting fo...

Today, we're chatting with Sherhara Downing. Sherhara is a communications trainer and she shares a little about how she built her role for herself, some really good points about how to get collaboration right, focusing on grace over grind in business, and then we take some time to nerd out about Marvel movies. 

Welcome to season 2!    This season, we're talking about finding the white space in our businesses, protecting rest time, and how that creates space to do deep work (credit to Cal Newport).    If you're just joining us, welcome! If you've been around, we're so glad to have you back.    Deep Work

Today, we're chatting with Austin Church. Primarily, Austin runs a marketing and branding agency called Balernum, but he's also a consultant, writer, entrepreneur, dad, and husband. He's a multi-passionate, multi-talented guy with a full life. We talk a lot about how to "get it all done", his idea of a holistic approach to productivity and work-life balance, and how all of that has less to do with...

This episode is sooo good! Today, we chat with Issac Bowen, the founder of Lightward. He's worked hard to build his life and the tools that he creates with his company by continuously breaking things down to the most simple and real concepts. We're talking about decision making, having the courage to ask yourself important questions, listening to what you hear even when it's scary, and trusting yo...

Today, we're chatting with Lauren Caselli - event extraordinaire! Lauren runs Caselli Events, which specializes in strategic event marketing and planning where she helps high six, seven, and eight figure businesses create memorable in-person experiences that actually build relationships. We chat with Lauren about her story, what clients can expect through an event that is set up for a positive ROI...

Today, we chat with Gina Horkey. Gina has had quite the career journey – she started out working at a financial planning firm, then went out on her own offering freelance writing and eventually moved into offering virtual assistance services and realized her power as a consultant to her clients. Now Gina teaches others how to run a lucrative online business of their own.

Today, we chat with copywriter and podcast host, Kaleigh Moore. Kaleigh is a freelance writer for eCommerce and SaaS companies and has a ton to share about how she and her freelance business have evolved over the years. In this episode, we talk shop about the day to day implications of being a freelancer, Kaleigh's advice for crafting a successful freelance career when you're out on your own, and...

Today, we're chatting with learning strategist and business coach, Jeannie Sullivan. Jeannie's specialty is helping businesses open themselves up to future possibilities, and one of the many weapons in her arsenal includes reflection. In this episode we talk with Jeannie about why some leaders are resistant to reflection, the big wins it can create in your life, and some really practical wisdom ab...

Today, we're talking with Gloria Chan. She's the co-founder of Recalibrate Studios. Gloria and her team are on a mission to restructure the way we think about stress and the tools we use to fight it. There are so many goodies we learn in this episode from how stress affects us physically to what it does to our decision-making ability. Gloria has some really thoughtful and practical ways of helping...

Today, we are talking with Liesbeth Geels. She is the VP of Manufacturing at one of the world's largest coffee retailers. Liesbeth shares some amazing insights on how leaders can gain big wins simply by developing relationships with their admins. We talk about where she sees leaders have amazing breakthroughs through their work with their support staff, a few pitfalls that keep both sides from bei...

Welcome to the BrainSpace Optimized Podcast!   This is where leaders get the insight and inspiration they need to be the best versions of themselves. If you're a leader who's determined to be more accomplished, generous, and available to the people and projects that matter the most to you, this show is for you.   We have a question for you. What's your superpower?