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Today on the podcast we have Melisa Camilleri of Compliment Inc. Melissa is a high school English teacher turned CEO and Founder; she owns a lifestyle brand that encourages, inspires, and educates; she also sells jewelry and has an Instagram course! This woman is all over the place and she is one hardworking mamma! Instagram has gone through a lot of changes over the years and if you’re still on t...

We’re excited to be doing something new over the next few episodes and this is thanks to all your amazing feedback! A question that came up inside the TCC network, was “Where are the podcasts for brand new business owners? Business owners who haven’t made anything yet or haven’t got off the ground yet?” So, we’re going to be sharing with you over the next few episodes, our five-part Beginner Busin...

Today on the show, we welcome Micala Quinn. Micala is a wife, mom, teacher, lifelong learner and founder of The Live Free Mama Movement. She helps moms launch their freelance business using the skills they already have so that they can have more freedom, flexibility, and financial stability. Our lives were very similar in that Micala had worked for a bit, started freelancing from home and has now...

So, we have a crazy idea! We’re excited and nervous about it and can’t wait to share it with you. We have big dreams this year and yep, you guessed it, we want to take you on our journey to $100k per month. We recently came to the conclusion that making this amount of money every month is realistically quite doable for us at this point. We have formulated some new strategies, broken down more of o...

We are super excited to welcome our guest on today’s show and we know you will love this episode! We talk to Lisa Robbin Young of Ark Entertainment Media about the idea of a six-figure business, something that all entrepreneurs at least think about. For many of us, and Lisa included, six figures is a bottom line that a business needs to reach in order to feel successful. Lisa, however also talks a...

Today on the show we are tackling a topic that has cropped up in a lot of Facebook groups recently, ours included, and it’s a real good one for discussion! The question is, “How the heck do you set, handle and enforce boundaries when you work from home?” Not only with yourself, clients and customers but also if you have a spouse, a partner, or your kids at home. So whatever your situation, we are...

We are super excited to welcome a great friend and colleague to the show today, Angela Greaser! Angela works with us as the Director of Operations at Think Creative Collective and is the Co-Founder of All the Ops. We really know how much Angela’s expertise has helped us in our business since she came on board and we cannot wait to share it with you! We get down to it with Angela on how you can str...

Today’s episode is all about the 2017 Review – where we share our triumphs and our milestones, the bumps on the road, the numbers, the sexy data and everything in between! 2017 was a big year for us; Penelope was born, we took off all of January and we launched our signature program, The Strategy Academy, twice! We also hosted a ton of webinars and we ran Facebook Ads strategically well for the fi...

Today on the show we have the amazing Katie Krimitsos! Katie is the founder of Biz Women Rock, which is a community and education provider for women entrepreneurs around the world, a.k.a, everyone listening. She is so helpful and an absolute open book on how she has found success in her corner of the world. Inside this episode, Katie shares a ton of incredible strategies. Not only are we talking a...

You guys have been knocking on our virtual door saying, “Give us a damn update on the damn side hustles!” You asked for it, so here it is! The update episode. A couple episode ago, if you missed it, we talked about our side hustles – why we started them, what they are and how they work. But today’s episode is really just an update on how our side hustles are going, what’s new and where they are go...

Today on the show we have Lauren Goldstein of Golden Key Partnerships. Lauren has been an entrepreneur for over six years and helps businesses with consulting, training and web design. In this episode, you are going to hear about two of Lauren’s crazy client stories where she ended up having to fire them. This is not an easy conversation to have, especially when you can end up in a little bit of l...

OMG! We made a whole year of podcasting and we didn’t fall off the bandwagon guys! Yep, we’re officially addicted and this podcast ain’t going nowhere. Today in this celebratory episode, we are going to go break down what has happened over the last year of the SHP podcast – the amazing guests we’ve had on, amazing moments, the epic fails and all the juicy things that you do, or don’t know, about t...

Last January, we had Natalie Franke, the founder of Rising Tide Society join us on The Strategy Hour Podcast. Little did we know that 2017 would be a whirlwind for Natalie. She went on to work for Honey Book, sky rocket The Rising Tide Society and has become the number one downloaded podcast interview that we’ve had over the last year of The Strategy Hour Podcast. We’ve loved watching her journey...

Happy New Year everybody! We’ve just returned back after a 12-week holiday and today, we travel back in time to do our monthly review of December 2017. We also plan for January 2018, tackle our four-quarter breakdown, review our stats and set goals and projects for the new year. We hope that this episode will inspire you to thoroughly review your own past business year and set thorough goals and p...

On today’s show, we are absolutely delighted to welcome a great friend and massive inspiration, the one and only Laura Neff from Laura Lee Creative! Laura is a wedding and brand photographer as well as an educator in the creative community. Her particular style of creative magic has enabled her to share her expertise on workflow, systems, productivity and time management, all things every one of u...

In this episode, we are talking about our word year. We’ll be reflecting on our words for 2017 and revealing our words for 2018. There is an energy shift that happens at the beginning of the year and the word of the year is the word that is to establish the tone for the entire year. We really want this episode to inspire you to pick your own keywords, so that whenever you get overwhelmed, lost or...

Today, we get to hear from Abagail. I sat doing to interview her to learn all about her journey before Think Creative Collective was born. Abagail graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in Fine Art in Graphic Design and a minor in Business Administration. Before the launch of TCC, Abagail had an incredible five plus years of business and design experience accelerating companies of al...

Today, we are going over our 2018 TCC bucket list. Yep, that’s right we are confirming our 2018 dreams it into the world so that you can hopefully be inspired and hold us accountable! We want to challenge you to, after this episode, go and write down the things that are on your heart for 2018. This is different to goal setting in that these are things you really want to affirm into your life. They...

On today’s show we have a very special guest to share with our listeners, none other than Jessica Rodriguez! Jessica runs The Day Dream Achiever and is a Business and Visibility Strategist and Podcast Host. Through her business she helps purpose-driven women scale their online business to six figure years. We love Jessica’s attitude towards achieving the dreams that you have always wanted! One of...

Today, we’re talking about the launch baby! The breakdown, the numbers, the data and the takeaways. For the second time this year we did our Five Days To Launch challenge and there were some major hiccups going into it! In total, we spent $20,427.64 on this launch and we made… drumroll… $126,716, in just three weeks! Although we spent way more than anticipated and didn’t reach our $200,000 target,...

On today’s episode we welcome our good friend and social media whizz Allie Danae Walker. Allie owns a Virtual Assistant and Media Managing company called of The Social Walker Agency. She works with companies, running their online presence and keeping their social platforms in check. We are actually lucky enough to say that we have had first-hand experience with Allie while she has been the VA for...

2018 is right around the corner and if you’re feeling flustered about all the things you want to do and achieve, this episode is here to help. Today, we are talking about goal setting. We look at the importance of reflection in being able to move forward and why you need to analyze what worked and what didn’t for 2017, to help pave the way to a more successful 2018. We also take a look at how you...

In this episode, we welcome the video queen, Andrea Corson. Andrea is an Emmy-nominated television producer, digital strategist and consultant. She has created awesome video for a wide range of clients including Google, Disney, Covergirl, DSW, Carnival Cruise Line and Nordstrom Rack, to name just a few. Everybody is always saying that video is where it’s at, video is where you have to be and video...

Today on the show, we are dishing out all the secret sauce! We get asked all the time, “How do you get so much done and not work an insane amount of hours?” And today, we are going to be answering this question by looking really specifically at the systems and software that we use to make our business happen and give us the time to have a four-day weekend if we want it! If you have been looking in...

We are very excited to welcome Shunta Grant as our guest on today’s show. Shunta is the creator of Because of Zoe Designs, host of the Business, Life & Joy podcast, and business educator teaching entrepreneurs how to build and grow successful businesses that keep customers coming back. Having left the practice of law for full-time entrepreneurship, Shunta is an ardent advocate for enterprising wom...