Why Are We Shouting? with Jill Salzman

What’s In This Episode: Have you ever hired someone who came highly recommended to you by someone you deeply trust? What happened next? There was that one time Jill hired a really great website developer and, well, you can guess how this one went. (Spoiler alert: it wasn't good.) Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying expe...

What’s In This Episode: Remember that time that you showed up for work and scared half the people in the room? Let’s explore all the gory details of Jill’s most recent public speaking engagement and how she royally screwed it right up by saying all the wrong things…so that you don’t have to. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through...

What’s In This Episode: Have you ever considered investing money in something that you really believe in? When you take a gamble, it’s obviously a risk. But the more seasoned an investor you become, the less of a gamble you take. So what happens when a really seasoned investor – like The Real Estate InvestHer’s founder, Liz Faircloth – experiences such a big business blunder that it costs her hund...

What’s In This Episode: When you prep to step away from the office, do you get busy crafting the perfect away message? Let’s dig in to the way we communicate with people when we can’t communicate with people. More often than not, entrepreneurs just love to make this one complicated. But it doesn’t have to be. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the ac...

What’s In This Episode: Do you work breaks into your weekly work schedule?   Where there’s a will, there’s a way, they say. But Jill’s found that the will to take a rest from all the doing in an entrepreneur’s work week is superseded by the desire to succeed. That’s why she’s talking about the longstanding epidemic that’s called The Fear of Not Doing. It hits entrepreneurs hard, and we need a way...

What’s In This Episode: When’s the last time you gave some thought to those micro moments that your customers have when they interact with your business? It’s the little things, the ones often ignored, that can make the biggest difference to your customers. Jill had a related revelation recently all about shopping carts and it may very well help you to see your business entirely differently from n...

What’s In This Episode: Do you ever wonder what it would take to make 100 episodes of a podcast?   This week, we’re celebrating! And by celebrating, Jill means she wants to   highlight all the things that have gone so very wrong in the making of this podcast.   Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossible into the achievable. Through defying expectations and breaki...

What’s In This Episode: Do you celebrate technology day in and day out? Sure, it’s changed our lives. But when it comes to our businesses? It’s the worst. You might experience a bit of PTSD as Jill rehashes the many things that can go wrong with the tech that makes our companies go. Lucky for you, she also suggests several preventative tactics to help alleviate the stresses that this stuff brings...

What’s In This Episode: How hard can it be?   That’s a question you might be asking yourself more often than not. It’s a question that the inimitable Joyce Shulman asks herself often, even after decades running successful businesses. She lets you stand in her shoes for a sec to help you see how even the brightest minds can’t always leave it to reason to figure out what’s gonna work for you busines...

What’s In This Episode: How are you presenting yourself to people? Because how you do it matters.   There’s a lot of ego and fear and guilt and self-doubt and negativity that gets in the way of what you could be putting out there. A lot of us are making mistakes and assumptions that lead us to present a lesser version of ourselves. Might that be you? Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration...

What’s In This Episode: Why is it that the people who believe their suggestions are the best often give the worst advice? And more importantly, why is it that we believe them?   Jill walks back the years to the time that she attended the ABC Kids Expo to grow her baby jewelry company. In theory, it was amazing advice to bring in some big business. In reality, it turned out to be a big, fancy mista...

What’s In This Episode: The children are our future, right? If that’s the case, it’s time to get pumped about what’s in store for the rest of us because Jill’s three kiddos are budding entrepreneurs who have a lot of ideas.   Miss Sunshine, Miss Roses, and Mister Giggles want you to know who they are, how they understand entrepreneurship, and they even share their top secret ideas for businesses t...

What’s In This Episode: Do you have contracts in place with all of your clients?   You’ll never guess what happens when you decide to work with someone and don’t sign a contract and then they change their tune.  (Spoiler alert: it’s not good.) Guest Sherene Strausberg of 87th Street Creative shares her big business blunder about that time she skipped signing contracts with her clients – and since...

What’s In This Episode: Are you telling people the truth about your entrepreneurial journey? So many of us edit out our bizarre or unique experiences because we think that no one will understand how it all fits together. Jill examines her time spent in South Africa where she co-founded an organization to help empower women in need…and why it’s been left out of her story. Jill Salzman turns the mun...

What’s In This Episode: How do you say no without saying no so that you can make a million bucks? It’s hard to decline any opportunity that miiiiiiight possibly in some way bring you the fame and fortune you’ve dreamed of having…until someone like speaker extraordinaire Sally Hogshead teaches you how to stop giving yourself away. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the i...

What’s In This Episode: We all know that trust is the foundation of any solid transaction that happens between a small business owner and its buyer.   But what happens when you take that trust all the way through the Twitter platform to engage with an international superstar like, say, famed organizer Peter Walsh , and things go a weeeee bit awry? Let Jill fill you in on this true story that turne...

What’s In This Episode: Did you ever pass on hiring a working mom because she had needs that extended beyond your workplace?   Meet Lisa Curtis, founder of Kuli Kuli , whose big business blunder highlights an all-too-common assumption about working moms that so many of us make. Find out what came of her experience and how it changed the way that she does business. Jill Salzman turns the mundane in...

What’s In This Episode: When was the last time you cleaned up that never-ending task list, those piles of docs, or your desktop madness? If you’ve been considering ways to organize and create systems within your biz, this one’s for you. It’s time to stop talking about it and finally DO something about it so that you can make real progress in growing your biz. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into in...

What’s In This Episode: Have you ever spent money that you didn’t have?   What about money that you do have…except that you don’t really have it? Go on a fun conference sponsorships ride with Jill   to find out just how badly things can go when you’re a very trusting person who believes in people and what they tell you.   Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and transforms the impossibl...

What’s In This Episode: Have you ever updated your customers too soon? You know the ones. The folks that have hired you to do a job for them and well before you’ve finished it, you give them an update that gets you into hot water? Marci Brennan certainly knows. She shares her big business blunder that taught her, and will teach you, what not to do the next time you wanna update your clients on you...

What’s In This Episode: When someone in your business goes rogue, what do you do about it? It’s one thing to invite someone into your world to work with you and it ends up being a bad fit. But it’s an altogether different thing when someone that’s responsible for your business decides to do something you never even anticipated…EVER…at all…anywhere…anytime. Oh, and this true tale involves none othe...

What’s In This Episode: How can you tell if the person who’s offered to help your business isn’t gonna help your business? It’s time to spill the tea about a woman who promised to help Jill and then didn’t. She lied. Except she didn’t mean it…so does that make it a lie? Jill highlights the very simple conundrum that we all find ourselves facing when we think someone didn’t tell us the truth: is it...

What’s In This Episode: Are you ready to take on all of the tasks that 2022 is already demanding of you? Before you dive into all of the work that’s piled up, it’d be a good idea to figure out if you’re even ready for all the things that you’ve tasked yourself with. Why rush into business-building madness when you can examine what, exactly, is gonna work best for YOU? Jill Salzman turns the mundan...

What’s In This Episode: Is it really the end of the year already? How’d we get here so fast? In this time of reflection, and celebration, and egg nog, Jill wraps up the year for you in some gorgeous Hanukkah paper with a big Christmas bow, adds a few Kwanzaa streamers and pairs it with Festivus-flavored egg nog because…well…’tis the season. Jill Salzman turns the mundane into inspiration and trans...

What’s In This Episode: How much do you really know about your customers and clients? This week’s big business blunder is thanks to Dorothy Kolb who bravely goes where so few entrepreneurs go, admitting she knew so much about finance when she launched her business that she forgot all about the whole going-and-getting-customers thing. Find out how understanding your customers deeeeeeeply can really...