The Heart & Hustle Podcast

In today's episode, we're going to go through the top 11 things you need to do when you first start a business. We're covering the more technical business side of things that people so often look over and forget in their haste to start posting on Instagram and Facebook. --------------------------------- Show notes: https://theheartuniversity.com/322-getting-started-11-things-to-do-when-first-start...

Have you ever had a moment where you saw an opportunity and SO desperately wanted to reach for it but yet feel so intimidated, overwhelmed, or unsure of HOW to even go about pitching yourself for an opportunity?? Is your hand raised? Great, you're in the RIGHT PLACE for today's episode! Today we had the JOY of talking to one of our favorite humans on earth, Valentina Garcia. ----------------------...

Let's face it: as entrepreneurs, half of our job is marketing. Trying to communicate the value of our products or services in a clear, ethical, and results-generating way. A lot of us weren't born natural salesmen. Many entrepreneurs start out as creatives or artists who just LOVE something so much they have to share it with others. We break down 7 of our favorite sales strategies that we use regu...

We invited one of our students from our Photo Major course onto the show for a little mini- coaching call session, and BOY is it a good one. --------------------------------- Show notes:  https://theheartuniversity.com/319-live-coaching-call-marketing-to-local-demographics-styled-shoot-tips-and-pivoting-your-business-in-motherhood-with-sarah-merck --------------------------------- Photography Posi...

Today we're chatting with you all about our decision to shift this podcast from 2 days a week down to one. We're breaking down our reasons why, some logistical insight into this podcast and how we make money with it, our goals for it, and more. --------------------------------- Show notes:  https://theheartuniversity.com/318-why-we-switched-to-one-podcast-episode-per-week -------------------------...

Today's episode is an absolute GOLD MINE for all the wanna-be-entrepreneurs out there who are currently dreaming of leaving their 9-5 jobs but totally unsure how to do it. We brought on the best human we could think of to talk about this: our girl, Amy Porterfield.   Show notes: https://theheartuniversity.com/317-leaving-your-9-5-a-step-by-step-plan-to-put-in-your-two-weeks-notice-with-amy-porterf...

Today's episode is spiicccyyyyyyy. We sat down for a fun lifestyle and relationship Q&A and the questions you sent us are GOOOD.  Today we get into questions like how do you make a house a home, how do you cultivate Godly sexual and emotional intimacy with your husband, and how do we build healthy adult friendships and community in our lives. --------------------------------- Show notes: https://t...

Today we opened up the mic to Madi Richardson, a Kentucky based documentary family photographer, so she can ask us ANY and all questions she has for her business at the moment. She started us off STROOONGGG by diving headfirst into money mindset, pricing strategies, and communicating value to prospective clients. We spent almost the entire call live workshopping her business model and service offe...

Today is about to get a little nitty gritty and we are HERE for it!!! Raise your hand if you're an entrepreneur who has ever had the question "Wait.. How do I pay myself? How much do I pay myself? How much should I set aside for taxes? HELP?!"   Our hands are raised too. We've been there, friend, TRUST US. --------------------------------- Show notes: https://theheartuniversity.com/314-how-to-pay-...

We're back today with part two of our series interviewing past brides of ours. Today, welcome to the show Sulli Lichnovsky one of Evie's past brides from 2021. Sulli was a fun bride to interview because she's also a photographer who is IN this industry as well. So she has a dual perspective which brings another element to today's conversation.    Today we ask Sulli some hard-hitting questions abou...

A rough idea of our daily routines in a typical work week! We want to preface that every single person is in a different season of life, and has different capacities, demands on their time, priorities, etc! So this episode is us sharing an average day in our life, but it is by no means the pinnacle of perfection for the world at large. --------------------------------- Show notes: https://theheart...

Today's episode is the start of a two-part series that we're STOKED about. We reached out to a past bride of Lindsey's, Raziel Rizzo. She photographed her and her husband Caleb's wedding in San Francisco last February. We asked Raz to be on the show to interview her as a past bride to truly spill the tea on what it was like working with Lindsey as her photographer.  -------------------------------...

How many times have you received a Facebook message or Instagram DM from a potential client inquiring to work with you?    EVERYONE'S hands are raised right now. It happens. So what do we do about it? Should we keep all communication in that social media message thread? Should we just send a link to our website? What is the correct protocol here to set us up for success to make it more likely we'l...

Today you're in for a treat. That's a pun. You'll understand in a minute. Today we got to have a conversation with the brilliant and wonderful Candace Nelson, the founder of a little company called Sprinkles, aka the first cupcake bakery and cupcake ATM.  --------------------------------- Show notes: https://theheartuniversity.com/309-the-different-types-of-funding-methods-you-can-use-as-an-entrep...

We are just a few days away from 2022 wrapping up. And what a year it's been.    Today we're doing a wrap-up on how 2022 went for The Heart University. As CEOs of this company, we learned a LOT this year, and we wanted to share the biggest nuggets and takeaways we learned with you today. This year was interesting in so many ways for us. We scaled back intentionally. We did a lot of things differen...

Today we talked with Kaley from Kansas about SO much, but the heart of the conversation lies in how she's able to capture imagery that evokes feeling and emotion, and how she's built a photography business over the years that has allowed her to capture human beings in a real, honest, fine art way that makes her truly one of a kind. We ask her how she got started in her photography journey, and wha...

If you know us at all, you know we're HUGE readers. We love love love to read and each year we have a reading goal we love to try and hit. We've done past episodes on our favorite books and business books (Ep 70 and Ep 196) as well as an episode on tips to be a better reader (Episode 213), and on today's show, we're hitting you with our top 5 favorite books we read in 2022. -----------------------...

Today we had a RICH girl chat about a super important topic: singleness. Kristen has SO much wisdom to share from her years navigating waiting for her husband and she delivered LOADS of it on today's episode. She shared her advice for anyone currently navigating a season of singleness, some encouragement on how to turn this season into one of growth and depth that can set you up for success throug...

This episode is one of those down-to-earth conversations. Obviously, Black Friday was just a couple of weeks ago, and as we've been walking away from one of the biggest sales weekends (and often the most stressful weekend for business owners) of the whole year, our team and we have had some thoughts about Black Friday in general. So we figured, hey why not open the curtain and share some of our th...

Today we had the pleasure of sitting down with the incredible and iconic Shay Cochrane, CEO of Social Squares. We chatted about the LIFE-CHANGING concept of her 16-hour work week. Shay covers her story behind starting the 16-hour work week (hint: it's probably not how or when you expected she started it) and her thoughts behind building and scaling a successful business while only working a couple...

Hey friends, Lindsey here. If you didn't know, last month for the first half of November, my family and I took a trip to Spain for 10 days. We had a blast and had wanted to make a trip to Europe with the girls for a while now, and I'm just so happy we were able to make it happen when we did. And since then, I've gotten a lot of questions about the logistics of our trip - especially about traveling...

Earlier this year we did an episode that got INSANE feedback from you. It was episode 273: Making God Your CEO. You guys LOVED that episode, and today we have a special guest on to chat about doing business WITH the Lord. Today we have the honor of speaking with Zach Windahl. --------------------------------- Show notes: https://theheartuniversity.com/301-doing-business-with-god-how-to-hear-his-vo...

Today for our 300th episode, we wanted to do something super special. We went back through all 300 episodes we've done and picked some of our absolute FAVORITE moments from this show that wrecked us. And then, it wouldn't be a TRUE Heart & Hustle episode if we didn't serve you with some laughs to balance out the power punch moments. So naturally, we decided to end this episode with a lil series of...

In case you missed the big news a couple of weeks ago, Evie and Landon and are moving!! Across the country!! To the same town that Lindsey and her husband Andrew just moved to!!! AAAHHH!!!!   So today we're giving you the TEA. The inside scoop, on our thoughts about this big life update! We cover a DEEP DIVE of why Evie is moving, what led to that decision, their different perspectives on the mome...

Today we have a returning guest, and one of our favorite people on the planet. Brady Clayton. If you don't know, Brady is our go-to videographer for The Heart University, and he's INCREDIBLE at what he does. We had him on at the very beginning of this show on episode 13. And we felt like it's been 2 years, we need the man the myth the legend back on this show. --------------------------------- Sho...