Why Are We Shouting? with Jill Salzman

​​What’s in this episode: How grateful are you to these pandemic times for giving us all permission to build our businesses in sweatpants? You might know exactly how to conduct yourself in a media interview. What about the ways not to conduct yourself in an interview…especially when you’re not entirely exactly sure what you even signed up for? Folks + Things Mentioned in This Episode * Episode 17,...

What’s in this episode? What are you supposed to do when everyone around you seems like they’re more successful than you are? Let’s feel all the feels and really dig into why it hurts when our competition beats us. I mean, it’s not a competition. (But isn’t it? Just a little bit?) Folks mentioned in this episode * Siddhartha Khosla , This Is Us theme song composer * Karen O , lead singer of the Ye...

What’s In This Episode: If you could do it over with the first client that ever hired you, what would you do differently? Cara Chace knows a thing or two about overdoing it with a client. She wants you to pay attention to the ways in which you give yourself away because, well, while we all know that in theory you’re not supposed to do this, it’s so hard in practice. Sound familiar? Folks mentioned...

What’s in this episode: Do you still believe that magical things only happen to other people and somehow you’ve always been missing out? If you haven’t figured it out  yet: You’re magical, too. Let’s get you all the permission you need to think wayyyyy outside the box make things happen for your business ways you’d never dreamed possible…until now. Folks mentioned in this episode * Nelson Mandela...

What’s in this episode: How often do you try and manufacture success?  Entrepreneurs work really hard. They also work a little too hard at making it look like they don’t work that hard at all. Because the magical things that happen to hard-working people aren’t just happy little accidents. We make them happen, don’t we? Folks mentioned in this episode * Paul Rudd , who’s featured on this podcast’s...

What’s In This Episode: When someone uses a word to harness its power, it can unleash the opposite effect, too. The folks that don’t understand its power are the same folks that think they’ve just gotten permission to misuse it.* This week’s massive business blunder shouldn’t ever happen to any woman in any business setting. It’s a tough subject that too many of us have experienced. May hearing th...

What’s In This Episode: Ever lose $90,000?  A creative and inspiring business man named Russ Riendeau bravely shares his big blunder. It’s a really big one. He lost a lot of money. But it’s not the amount that matters, and that’s not what he wants you to take away from his experience. Folks mentioned in this episode * Russ Riendeau Got Q’s? Jill’s Got A’s. * Text or call (708) 872-7878 so that I c...

What’s In This Episode: If connection is intrinsic to who we are as human beings, why do we always meet that special someone who doesn’t understand when to swap contact info, or how to go about making new connections? This week we tackle our first future business blunder so that we can figure out a way to save ourselves at future networking events.  Folks mentioned in this episode * Barbara Got Q’...

What’s In This Episode: There are more mom entrepreneurs out there than most realize. The demographic is unparalleled. It’s not defined by skin color, geography, or household income. It’s made up of women building businesses at the same time that they’re raising families. They’re mom entrepreneurs that have unique needs. Do we know what they are? We do now, thanks to the results of the 2022 Mom En...

What’s In This Episode: How do you address people when you contact them? If you’re still writing emails that start with “hi there!” and you’re still making phone calls that begin “heyyyyy…how are you?” then I’m gonna argue that you’re missing the boat. This week, we’re gonna up your name game. It’s time to start paying attention to the little things in your business that make a BIG difference to a...

What’s In This Episode: If someone told you that you didn’t have to work so hard to run your business, would you listen to them? It’s time to re-examine how much effort you’re pouring into your day-to-day and WHERE you’re focusing your energy. Guest star Frank Agin will walk you through his big business blunder, which may very likely be one that you’re still making right this minute. This is a pub...

What’s In This Episode: Do you spend a lot of time on your phone or your laptop when you’re around your kids?  We’ve all heard about the parents that throw their phones away when their kids need their attention. But it’s not realistic. How can you get work done and continue to maintain a gorgeous relationship with your kids? Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into...

What’s In This Episode: How slowly or quickly do you get things done? Everyone works at a different pace. Some folks prefer to take their sweet time. Others speed through their work days without looking back. Jill’s speed-of-lightening pace has gotten her into terrible awful no good very bad blunders, one of which left her stranded in the middle of Uganda. Let her blunder be a lesson to you. Jill...

What’s In This Episode: Do you throw the kitchen sink at potential customers and clients when you’re trying to make a sale?   It’s time to meet Josh Hall, web designer and founder of In Transit Studios , who once wanted you to know eeeeeeeverything there was to know about him. But why was that his big business blunder? Josh'll tell you all about it. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration...

What’s In This Episode: Remember slipping up on that pitch you sent to that sponsor that one time?   Let Jill help you out of the messes that you might make in the future when pitching to sponsors — and if you haven’t ever pitched a sponsor for your business yet, may this episode be the driving force that gets you going and creates a whole new stream of revenue for you. Jill Salzman turns the mund...

What’s In This Episode: What do Weight Watchers, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Peloton have in common? To answer that question, Jill wants to introduce you to a few of her friends that are WAY into their hobbies for one very specific reason. It’s a reason that might be the same for you and how you do what you do, too.   Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into...

What’s In This Episode: Do you have too much work to do? Too busy to plan a vacation or even a staycation? Too complicated to coordinate days off or to figure it out with your kids’ crazy schedules? Excuses, excuses. It’s time to stop overlooking the best remedy for all your work woes. We’re not built to work and worry 24/7, so why not finally do something about it?   Jill Salzman turns the mundan...

What’s In This Episode: Why is it that we entrepreneurs often walk on the sunny side of the street? Is it because we’re risk takers? Optimistic? Persistent people who get carried away? Meet employee-turned-entrepreneur Naa Ardua Flohic, founder of Paper Flo Designs , who got herself into a big business back-up plan blunder. She’ll remind you why it pays to listen to advice of the experienced and w...

What’s In This Episode: When you’re running a business, you have to consider a LOT of words. It’s tedious, it’s exhausting, and you could argue that writing for business is its own form of insanity. But when you take Stephen King’s advice to heart and blend it with decades of experience writing newsletters, marketing materials, articles, emails, and blog posts, there’s a way to figure out what wor...

What’s In This Episode: Wanna know just how interconnected the world really is? Find out what dentists and Meetup.com have in common, why it’s important to tell your hairdresser what you do for a living, and how your business problems don’t   have to be solved by your lonesome. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying expect...

What’s In This Episode: Haggling. Bargaining. Hammering out a deal. Negotiating is an age-old practice that goes back to the before times – and then before that – because we are human and communicating is what we do best. So how come we’re slow to realize that negotiation is always an option?   Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Throu...

What’s In This Episode: Messaging is tough. You can certainly overdo it. You don’t wanna underwhelm, either.   How do we walk that fine line somewhere between the two and give people the confidence they need to buy what we have to sell? Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying expectations and breaking the rules, she succeed...

What’s In This Episode: Are you a word nerd? Whether you like it or not, you need to arrange and rearrange words in a particular order to convey what you sell. You use spelling and grammar all over social media, your website, and in your emails on the daily. So what happens when you hire a contractor to write things on your behalf and she makes mistakes that you couldn’t even have anticipated?! Ji...

What’s In This Episode: When you make changes to your business and ask your customers or clients to come with you, how smoothly do things usually go? Nobody likes change. Founders fight it regularly. So do their customers. But the next time you wanna placate to your people, is there a way you might be able to introduce the changes you’d like to make by enticing them in an enjoyable way to make the...

What’s In This Episode: How much of your ego is attached to the moment that a client fires you?   We can all learn a little something from the folks that fire us. Let’s pay more attention to the next time someone lets us go, shall we? In that act, they’re offering important information to us so that we can improve the way we do business.  Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transfo...