Build in Public Daily

In this episode, we kick things off with a reflection on the internal battle between staying in bed and getting up to tackle the day. It's intriguing how something can feel incredibly important one moment and justify not doing it the next. This realization highlights the power of perception and how it can shift our priorities. Moving on, we dive into the week's productivity. Personally, I've strug...

As it is the end of the first semester of my doctoral program, I thought it'd be worthwhile to reflect on what I've learned from my class this time around. I have, taken the class EDUC 7610, it's called the Learning Community. And we are talking about citizenship and civility. While I get quite bored of discussions about politics, I was able to reinforce some of the beliefs that I have around cert...

[00:00:00] Jethro: this is Jethro the producer for the Build and Public Podcast here, talking with Stacey about how it's been going and what she's thinking about the Build and Public Podcast. You've done 33 episodes so far, Stacey. That's crazy, huh? [00:00:15] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Yeah. Yeah. I told my husband this morning at breakfast that my podcast is my playground and my, it's like my practic...

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: There's a saying in Congress about two thirds vote. It's not even a saying. It's a rule, really. And in the growth path, we have three of us, and so there's three co-founders of the Growth Path education, myself, Renee, and John. And most of the time, all three of us. Are in agreement as we are building this company together. And so today we were discussing our asse...

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to today's Build in Public podcast. I'm Stacy Gonzalez, and I'm currently building two businesses simultaneously, which is not recommended for most people. However, I tend to not be most people, and so today is Friday. and it is the end of a long work week and there's been much progress made, um, in both of the businesses. But for me this week, the focus rea...

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: One of the things that I hope for for this building public podcast is that. It is not about a cognitive understanding. It is about an experience that I'm creating in this space first for myself second. for those who hear it. And then third, for myself when I hear it again later, from a different perspective at a different point in time. And my hope is through openin...

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to today's Build and Public podcast. You're joining me for the first time. I'd like to welcome you. This podcast is a place where we experiment, where we try new things, where we see who we are in between the spaces and so. , I invite you to enter into this space on this podcast tonight. It's called Build in Public because I'm literally feeling like I'm buil...

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to today's Build in Public podcast. I am Stacy Gonzalez, the hostess of this amazing podcast, and I'm doing something a little differently today because I'm trying to also cook dinner at the end of a very long day. And what I'm finding for myself is that when I create content like this podcast, I do a little Facebook Live. When I go for a walk with the dog i...

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to today's Build and Public podcast. If you are joining for the first time, I just wanna welcome you. I'm Stacy Gonzalez and I'm building two companies, one for women and another for educators. . And really at the end of the day, they're both focused on the same thing, which is learning and growing. And that's the reason why I do this daily Build and public...

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to the Build in Public Podcast. I'm Stacy Gonzalez and I am thrilled that you have decided to join me on this founder's journey of building a business in public. And today's podcast, I'm gonna start with a little admission. I have a goal that at the end of every day, I record a podcast episode to update on the. The bad, the ugly of this founder's journey and...

[00:00:00] Renee Devore: A slumber party. [00:00:01] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to today's Filled in Public podcast, and if you're new to the podcast, first and foremost, I just wanna thank you for joining. Welcome. I'm Stacey Gonzalez and this is a Build in Public podcast. Where we talk about the company that I'm building, I'm building two, but the one I mostly talk about is this one called Sou...

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to tonight's Build and Public podcast. I'm Stacy Gonzalez, and if you're new, this is the space where every day at the end of a long entrepreneurial day, I document my learning and my journey, and there's so many things that happen throughout the course of my day that to distill it down. Into one 10 minute recording oftentimes feels almost impossible, but to...

Welcome to today's Build and Public podcast. I'm Stacy Gonzalez, founder of Soul Growth, A community for heart led soulful women in business who want to do business differently by bringing all of them to work with themselves every day. And so as I'm building this company, my co-founder and I today on Mondays, we work. Uh, we live close enough and so she comes over to my, uh, house and we were work...

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: So tonight was a tough night, and so many pieces about being a entrepreneur and a founder are so uncertain and most of the. You're going through the motions without being the motions. Without being in the motions. And today on our growth path work, which is the work with educators, it was really a challenging day for me because I feel like. Both the sole growth work...

Welcome to the Soul Growth Build in Public podcast. There's something about this word suddenly that is really coming up for me today, and so for my build in public update around the sole growth company that we are building, I think this word suddenly is the word I wanna emphasize. and what has occurred to me as I am a Chicago native. I live in the Chicagoland area where , the winters are really, r...

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Welcome to the Soul Growth Build and Public Podcast. Thank you for joining us today. I'm Stacy Gonzalez, one of the co-founders of our Build Public podcast. And for the first time tonight, I'm here with my co-founder, Renee Devore. Say hello, Renee. Hello everyone. So tonight we are going to talk about the highs and the lows of being founders of a startup. And I'm g...

Hello, my friends. Welcome to the Building Public Podcast. I'm Stacy Gonzalez, your host and co-founder of Soul Growth, a boutique and unique lifestyle brand creating soulful experiences for women who desire to live the life that they love and deserve. And so today's update is gonna be pretty. because I'm tired. And it's a Friday, and it's Easter weekend, and it was a really busy day today and ver...

Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Okay, my friends. Welcome to today's Soul Growth Building Public podcast. I'm not gonna do this again. This is my fifth time trying to record tonight's podcast. I'm tired. My eyes are burning. I keep yawning and I'm thinking, what am I offering in tonight's, uh, update if I can't even get the update out? But I'm now standing and walking around in my living room ready to share...

Hello, my friends. Thanks for joining me tonight, uh, my soul filled build and public update. And if you're new to my podcast, I just wanna welcome you. I'm so glad that you are joining along on my journey to discovering and uncovering who I am and what I'm building, and how I'm gonna change the world. . So I'm Dr. Stacy Gonzalez, and I am the co-founder of Soul Growth. We are a boutique and uniqu...

Welcome to today's podcast. I'm Dr. Stacy Gonzalez, and this is The Daily Build in Public Podcast. Today was a particularly difficult day. I woke up with a splitt. migraine, it felt like somebody had taken a knife and shoved it right into my left upper temporal lobe or right above my eye and it hurt so bad and I got up and about 6:37 AM took some medication and laid back. And I had been really jus...

For today's build and public update, I'm gonna talk about where I started on Monday morning and where I ended on Friday afternoon, and the journey of learning that occurred to me this week and what I built this. this week. I built my own inner confidence. I built Inner Resolve. I built stronger connections to my past and how they influence and impact my world every moment and even today in this mo...

[00:00:00] For today's Build and Public podcast, I'm gonna take two maybe opposing directions and see where they may converge by the end of this podcast. So we'll see. The first thing I'm gonna start with is just a little daily update. So Tim Gonzales, my partner in life is a physics teacher, a high school physics. [00:00:27] and he is one of the smartest men I know. Analytical, mathematical. When...

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: There's a couple things I'm noticing about this Build in Public Podcast and this learning soul growth journey that I'm on is that every day I get a little bit more clarity. Every day I become a little bit more confident. To show up fully me in these new spaces and places where I am interacting with others, and there's so much goodness to update since I last shared f...

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: So I have an idea, [00:00:06] and this idea is stretching me and causing me to think differently about who I am, how I'm showing up in the world, and what I want to create and do. [00:00:29] What I realized about this exciting idea that I have is I get caught up in the 85 different moves and chess pieces that could possibly happen if I began to go down this road and...

[00:00:00] Dr. Stacey Gonzales: Today was a really difficult and challenging day for me, and I wanna share in today's Build in Public podcast what difficult feels like when I'm actually going through it. And it's. Private and secret, and nobody sees it or feels it but me and I don't really know how to share it publicly. So I'm gonna use this podcast tonight as an attempt to share what building in...