Why Are We Shouting? with Jill Salzman

What’s in this episode: It’s time to say goodbye to the Why Are We Shouting? podcast. This is our last moment together after over 3 years of shouting into your earholes. Why is this the last Why Are We Shouting? episode? You’ll have to tune in for the full story. But the TL:DR of it? 🎉 THE FOUNDING MOMS HAS BEEN ACQUIRED! 🎉 Folks + things mentioned in this episode: * The Founding Moms , having a...

What’s in this episode: When’s the last time you had an honest conversation about the money you make? If you’ve continued to charge prices that you set ages ago, or the idea of raising your rates scares you, or what other people in your industry charge… …then let’s do a little more sharing. Because sharing is caring. If you’re not sure whether you’re charging what you’re worth, it’s time to listen...

What’s in this episode: This one’s for the guys, the gals, and our non-binary pals. We’re gonna talk about your hormones. It’s time to go with the flow. Rather than ignoring the obvious — that we ebb and flow just as much as our work does — let’s talk about real things that happen to real people that really affect our work week. Folks + things mentioned in this episode: * Don’t know how to track y...

What’s in this episode: Do you still love Facebook?  Is your favorite place to connect still LinkedIn?  Are you still spending the majority of your bathroom time on Instagram? Whether it’s from a purely personal point of view or a professional perspective, is spending all this time on social media helping you? Or is it hurting you? Folks + things mentioned in this episode: * Listen to The Rabbit H...

What’s in this episode: Insults are everywhere. Politics is rife with disrespect. Social media feeds are full of slights, slaps, and snubs. The world is at war, and most of us are battling inner demons as we speak. Can we at least escape it in the business world? I’m not talking about that “customer is always right” crap. I’m talking business owner to business owner. Colleague to colleague. The fo...

What’s in this episode: Where do you find folks to refer you business? ChatGPT suggests that I can find them by creating a referral program and collecting testimonials. My mom tells me to call her. There’s gotta be a better way… This week, I’m bringing in The Growth Coach’s own Brad Schneider to reveal just how easy it is to do the thing that you thought wasn’t gonna be so easy to do. Folks + thin...

What’s in this episode: This week, it’s time to state the obvious.  There’s a lot going on in the world right now. It’s pretty heavy.  We can feel pretty POWERLESS in what we can do to effect change. What if we dealt with it all by cheering instead? Say, what would happen if someone spent an entire episode talking about how to cheer you on…? Folks + things mentioned in this episode: * Need more qu...

What’s in this episode: Kevin Bacon likes to dance. How do I know? Because I’m one degree from Kevin Bacon. You might be, too. This week, with Kevin’s help, we’re exploring why we assume what we assume about people before we even meet them. We know what happens people ass-u-me, yes? And yet, we insist on doing it all the time. Let’s dig in to “But whyyyyyyyyy?!” so we can make it stop. Folks + thi...

What’s in this episode: How old were you the day you forgot how to dream? Possibility is a hard concept for us to remember how to grasp. We can easily enter a world of possibility in our sleep, but finding a door to that world during the day feels…impossible. Can we do anything to change that? Folks + things mentioned in this episode: * 5 Ways to Play Like a Kid As An Adult * remember How To Dream...

What’s in this episode: Where were you the moment you realized that the expert you’d hired to help you was taking you for a ride? Was it in the middle of the project you worked on together? Six months later? Find out how legendary company Sorrelli’s legendary Lily Oswald not only led her company to profitability… …she also reveals how hiring an “expert” shaped her into the successful entrepreneur...

What’s in this episode: What's your least favorite business title? Let’s talk about your title. The title that you added to your LinkedIn profile and your business cards. There’s a lot at stake when you announce your title to the world, and there are plenty of your colleagues that don’t want any part of it. Folks + things mentioned in this episode: * connect with me so I can check out your title a...

What’s in this episode: If you wanna conquer your confidence when it comes to selling your stuff, there’s no need to turn to the experts.  Find a first grader instead. Kids can teach us an awful lot about how to ignore what other people might think of us. They intuitively understand that if you don’t ask, you won’t get it. And if they’re anything like my firstborn daughter, they’ll surprise you by...

What’s in this episode: How many times did you ask someone to move a meeting last week? How many times did someone ask you to shift the time of your Zoom call in the last few weeks? ALERT! ALERT! There’s a rescheduling epidemic going on right this very minute and no one is addressing it head on. Let’s talk about it, shall we? Folks + things mentioned in this episode: * See? Google offers up thousa...

What’s in this episode: When you welcome a new member onto your team, what’s your onboarding process? When you hire a contractor, how clear are you in your explanations about the work you want them to do? When you gain a new client, are you making sure that they know what’s to come every step of the way? This week, we’re gonna visit the wonderful world of Why-Didn’t-I-Think-of-That-Earlier as we l...

What’s in this episode: I really do believe in a good business blunder. They’re the helpful lessons we never wanted. The saving graces that we didn’t ask for. But the biggest blunders in history? They’re the collective mistakes we’ve made as a society. The ones that should never have been made. Let’s talk about a few of of the entrepreneurs that we’ve lost along the way in making these big blunder...

What’s in this episode: There are certain gifts that keep on giving…but we’re not so interested in receiving them. One of these gifts is COVID, which came into our lives pretty quickly and gifted us a whole host of surprises that we weren’t prepared for. Let’s revisit the fun times we all had during the pandemic and what life post-Rona has been like living with Long COVID. Folks + things mentioned...

What’s in this episode: Where there’s a will, there’s a way. But in my experience, where there’s a will, there’s a way to mess things up far worse than you ever thought possible.  You’ll be very happy to hear that I’ve done it again. If you thought you screwed anything up at work in the past few months, think again. (I really nailed it this time, too.) Folks + things mentioned in this episode: * m...

What’s in this episode: It’s high time that we recognize our instincts are here to serve us.  When people are hard to read, or work responsibilities are varied, or life is overwhelming on even the best days, we still can’t seem to listen to our bodies when they know things before we do. In this episode, we’re lucky enough to learn from a wise businesswoman named Anat Yaniv . She second-guessed her...

What’s in this episode: Thinking about making a move to your next chapter? It’s a tough one. When you’re ready to move on to a new project, role, or business that looks very different from the one you’re in now, it can feel impossible. Every fear in the world crawls into your mind and you stay put because doing anything else seems that much harder. But it doesn’t have to be so scary. Let’s make it...

What’s in this episode: How much time are your kids spending on their screens? There seems to be no good answer. No matter whether our children are on screens all day or they’re limited to 5 minutes, we’re judged incessantly and we keep getting it wrong. This week, give the judgment a rest. Take a walk through how much of a privacy freak this podcast host is…and feel better about yourself for at l...

What’s in this episode: What do actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus and climate expert Gina McCarthy have in common? They’re both…moms. Moms that worked through the early days of  their very busy careers. Working moms that had one conversation that led to a discovery about the vastly different experiences they had raising their kids.  How is that possible? Let’s talk about it. Folks + things mentioned in th...

What’s in this episode: It’s not always easy to get the answers you’re looking for, even when they’re staring at you right in the face. We tend to avoid using our customers and clients as informational resources because we’re the geniuses…I mean, that’s why they pay us, right? This week, the wonderful Mary Senkowska invites you into the horrors of making what she thought was an OnlyFans faux pas…t...

What’s in this episode: Looking to do less and make more money? Working yourself to the bone so that you can eventually live the dream? Yours truly gave it a go. I wanted to do less. Then I worked myself to the bone. Finally, I began to live the dream that I’d aspired to for so long. Turns out, living it is wayyyy harder than working towards it…because you’ve gotta slow down. Let’s pull back the c...

What’s in this episode: For the second year in a row, The Founding Moms teamed up with PhoneBox group to conduct a survey of mom entrepreneurs . For a second time, we wanted to understand and celebrate an often misunderstood and overlooked audience. The results? Surprising. I’m gonna skip the fudging of numbers, hyperbolizing the submissions, and reveal what really happened which, frankly, isn’t p...

What’s in this episode: Do you wanna transform the way that you do business? Wanna make a lot more money without losing your mind? There’s a whole new experience I’ve curated for the entrepreneur that wants to charge her worth, find her focus, and make wayyyy more money than she ever has before. It’s called Worth It , and it might be just the thing that you need to make your next bold move. Folks...