Why Are We Shouting? with Jill Salzman

What’s In This Episode: Do you ever consider global events to have had an impact on you as an entrepreneur?   We may or may not know where we were when Kobe Bryant died or when we first learned about COVID-19, but we do know that world events impact us. This week, Jill highlights several world events she participated in and how they impacted the work that she does today. Tune in to find out how sh...

What’s In This Episode: Has anyone ever hurled an insult at you during the course of your business day? What did you do about it? Insults are hard to deal with, especially in an industry that wants us to ignore them and move on because it’s not business-appropriate. This week, Jill talks about the many different ways that folks have offended her and what you can do about incoming insults during th...

Why aren’t we founders talking about the customer experience more often? This week, Jill gives you two sides of the app-developing coin: what it’s like when a founder puts a new idea into app action, and what it’s like when a user puts the app to the test. Tune in to find out all about her experience using the new app, Shmeal , and what she (literally) took away from it.   Jill Salzman is currentl...

What’s In This Episode: To go or to not go out for coffee: that is the networking question. This week, Jill enters the universal debate about meeting people for coffee, virtually or otherwise. She explores whether it’s a waste of time, what purpose it really serves, and how her business has benefited over the years thanks to the kindness of strangers. Jill Salzman is currently growing her third en...

What’s In This Episode: Why don’t more parents talk about the work stresses of our kids’ sick days? This week, find out what shenanigans ensued on a day that Jill was forced to take her kiddo to work. Not only does she share the parental perspective but she invites said kiddo to talk about what she recalls from that day so many years later. Jill Salzman is currently growing her third entrepreneuri...

What’s In This Episode: Is there really so much to self-publishing a book? What if you’ve self-published your own work twice and still don’t have the process down pat? This week, Jill regales us with her adventures in crafting her first book, Found It: A Field Guide for Mom Entrepreneurs and how the release of her follow-up, The Best Business Book In The World* (*according to my mom) went so very...

What’s In This Episode: Business isn’t supposed to get personal. Business is business, they say, and we’re supposed to keep our personal lives out of it. But can we? More importantly, should we?   This week, Jill calls up three colleagues to find out just how personal business can get, if at all. She speaks to business guru and game changer Melissa Ford , KazSource founder, CEO, and podcast host E...

What’s In This Episode: Hiring is hard. What do you look out for when you’re hiring someone to ensure the most productivity and the least risk of turnover? This week, Jill walks you through 2 checklists that every entrepreneur needs to make when they consider a new hire. She learned what to look out for the hard way. Tune in to hear the story of the worst hire she ever made and just how badly it i...

What’s In This Episode: When someone gives you their word in business but doesn’t follow through, should you do anything about it?  This week, Jill talks about how she got a musician signed to a major record label. She was promised that she’d be rewarded if the artist got famous. He did. But what followed was not at all the outcome that she expected. Tune in to find out her story of Jason Mraz’s s...

What’s In This Episode: How is it that you can plan and plan and plan a major launch for your business and epically fail to successfully launch it anyway? This week, Jill talks about all the hard work she put into creating and hosting a business conference. One small oversight and it turned into a complete and utter failure. Find out what she forgot to consider, what resulted because of it, and ho...

What’s In This Episode: How do you know when enough entrepreneurial education is enough? Carey On founder and Plyovation creator Regina Carey has been running her business for 4 years and she’s become exhausted by educational information overload. Tune in to hear Jill help her out with 3 tips for getting off the roller coaster ride that’s made up of virtual courses, online workshops, big events, s...

What’s In This Episode: Testing things out by trial and error is a method that a lot of entrepreneurs use to run their businesses. But how do you actually put it into practice? In this very meta episode, Jill switches things up and tries the trial and error method in realtime. She asks that you weigh in and help guide her to the preferred format for this very podcast. Can you help her out? Jill Sa...

What’s In This Episode: Do you hire interns? Their contributions can be invaluable to small businesses. So why don’t more companies bring them on? This week, learn about Jill’s journey as a serial intern prior to her career as a serial entrepreneur. Hear how her run-in with the titan of restaurant reviewers led her to single-handedly change a multi-million dollar company forever. Check out SafetyW...

What’s In This Episode: When you talk to your family, friends, and loved ones on social media, does the conversation feel real? Is it? This week, Jill tells the tale of her obsession with Oprah’s favorite professional organizer, Peter Walsh, and how her first ever TV appearance gave way to an alarming Twitter betrayal. Check out the tool of the week (spoiler alert: it’s The Social Dilemma ), and h...

Has your business ever gotten a great press hit? We often see fellow entrepreneurs land big features or top-10 lists but we don’t often get to hear about how it happened. This week, Jill walks us through how she got the biggest press hit that she ever landed, and how Gwen Stefani, a gossip blog columnist, and her cousin helped to set the stage for her overnight success. Check out the tool of the w...

What’s In This Episode: What’s the recovery like for an entrepreneur that’s contracted a novel coronavirus? Jill got COVID-19 in the spring of 2020. The aftermath of her illness took the left turn that so many “long-haulers” have experienced. She reveals a cure that carried her through it and how craving for connections extends well past the boundaries of a virus. Check out the tool of the week (s...

What’s In This Episode: What do young business owners think about communicating with older generations? For the second episode of her 2-part series, Jill continues to questions whether age matters when it comes to business communications between generations. Find out how Millennial word guru Amanda Ahrendt handles interactions with older generations and how another Milllenial’s reaction to the que...

What’s In This Episode: Every generation is influenced by its own set of language rules. So does age matter when it comes to communication between generations? Find out how Danny Schuman, founder of Twist Your Thinking and young Boomer extraordinaire, handles interactions with younger generations. You’ll also find out how a baby horse completely changed Jill’s generation communication forever. Get...

What’s In This Episode: We know that we need to review our business’ branding periodically. If we step back and look at the bigger picture — how our website looks, what the feel of our newsletters provides — we can redo how we do things so that we can draw in more customers. But do you ever think about what you’re wearing? This week, Jill wants you to know that attire matters. Our relationship wit...

What’s In This Episode: This one’s for the kids. It’s rare that entrepreneurs get the inside scoop on their work life from the people they’ve created. This week, tune in to hear Jill Salzman’s daughters, 10-year old Miss Roses and 13-year old Miss Sunshine, explore what it’s like to be the children of an entrepreneur. The kids also share how they’re faring in this strange new world and talk about...

What’s In This Episode: If people are the foundation upon which our businesses are built, why aren’t we paying more attention to them? This week, Jill focuses on how real relationships can catapult your business in a way that online connections cannot. She recounts a pivotal moment she shared with the indelible New York Times music critic, Jon Pareles , thanks to Lollapalooza and a Honda Civic. Ge...

What’s In This Episode: It’s a new era. We’re not caped crusaders but we’re masked, flying solo socially, and unable to congregate in the ways we did B.C. — Before Coronatimes. Networking remains crucial to running a business. So how are you doing it these days? This week, Jill responds to listener Nedra Rezinas who asked how we can network in this new, no-touch world. She offers 5 tip top tips on...

What’s In This Episode: Does public speaking scare you? Presenting to a crowd is not everyone’s first choice, but between pitches, demonstrations and presentations, entrepreneurs have to do an awful lot of it. This week, Jill walks us through what it’s like to give a TEDx talk. She shares the bizarre experience she had when she told the world  Why Moms Make The Best Entrepreneurs  and she lets you...

What’s In This Episode: What do you do when the product that you worked so hard to prep, produce, and launch doesn’t sell? Do you panic, do you quit, or do you cry and shout and let it all out? This week, Jill talks about a business she launched that turned out to be an epic fail. Find out what she launched (it was amazing), why it failed (it was stunning), and how The Educational Piece can help y...

Moving during a pandemic? Who’d attempt such a thing?? This week, Jill talks to sex therapist Lisa Katona , LCSW, CST, who blazed a very hot trail moving across the country to relocate her business…and lived to tell the tale. Hear how she managed to do it, what she’s learned along the way, and tips she has for you to improve your sex life rn . Get Jill's tip top tool of the week (spoiler alert, it...