Females on Fire with Hayley Luckadoo

One of the most important parts of having a great relationship with your clients is managing their expectations, which means setting boundaries. If you want to be able to enjoy the work that you're doing, and have time for your family, self, and personal life, boundaries are a crucial part to your business. As a wedding planner and owner of REFINE, Amber Anderson knows plenty about managing workin...

Having a pretty website is important, but is your website actually getting you clients? Megan Martin is a brand and website designer who loves to talk about creating websites that convert, and there's a lot of variables that go into it. From a great home page, to the right message, to branding and SEO, Megan is giving us all the details on how to make sure your website is actually working for you,...

Branding is so much more than just a logo and a website, and branding strategist Bonnie Bakhtiari works hard to help her clients understand that, and dive deep into the heart of why they love what they do. In this episode, Bonnie is giving us her insight and tips on why putting your heart into your brand is so important and how to do just that. Check out the show notes for this episode:  hayleyluc...

Facebook Ads can be a game changer for your business, but they can also be incredibly confusing, which is why having a Facebook Ads Strategist like Laura Ball is a necessity when you're ready to run ads. Laura is giving us all her knowledge on where to start and diving into everything from the Facebook Pixel, to the different types of ads, to how to create effective, strategic ads that benefit you...

Everyone makes mistakes, but it's how you process those mistakes that decides what type of person you are. We all know that we're human, that mistakes are inevitable, especially in running a business, where taking risks is a must, but sometimes knowing that failure is a part of life doesn't ease the sting of the fact that we let ourselves down. The people that care about you most will tell you tha...

Natalie Franke knows how important relationships are, and how lonely entrepreneurship can be, so she built The Rising Tide Society, one of the largest groups for creatives, on the idea of community over competition. In this episode, she's giving her insight on why community is so important, how to overcome fear of your competition, and how to find or start a community where you fit right in. If yo...

Christina Scalera is a creative, an attorney, and owner and founder of The Contract Shop. She makes her living making sure creative entrepreneurs have their business legally covered, and has developed tons of contract templates to make the legal side of running a creative business easy and stress-free. Now she's giving us all the details on why having a contract is so important for both you and yo...

In a world of perfect Instagram photos, authenticity can be a hard thing to come by, but Ashton Smith, founder of The Awakening is breaking the norm. She's built a community of women on the idea of knowing your worth on a deeper level than you ever have before. From the photos that haven't been retouched to the less than perfect stories and failures, she's putting it all out there and calling it b...

If you've ever seen the hashtag #TheImperfectBoss then you probably know Ashley Beaudin. She founded a movement that's all about making imperfection the norm, and it has resulted in tons of successful Instagram campaigns, full of women sharing their stories and owning their imperfections. Now Ashley's giving us her step-by-step advice on how you create a successful Instagram campaign, and why your...

Tayler Cusick is a dear friend of mine and we've been cheering for each other's accomplishments for a while now. She works with quite a few reputable companies, but just started her own stock photography company, Sourced Co., and let me tell you, Tayler is the queen of content creation. She recently wrote a guest blog for us on 3 tips to speed up your content creation process, which was an awesome...

It's the first official episode! You guys, I don't think I have ever been more excited than I am right now. If you know me at all, then you know that this podcast is a passion project that has been on my heart and my mind for a little while, and it's finally getting started! I'm Hayley Luckadoo, and what started off as a hobby wedding planning business in my college dorm room quickly turned into a...